Dan (don't knwow about this `Comrade' bit)...
As a Yank that has visited to both your downunder civ's, & listened to these Assies carrying on with their drivel & pathetic attempts at humor...
I'm with U!
If U want a hand in taken some of them on, buzz me.
Here's to the chaps the took away`America's Cup'!
glugh, glup, slurp, ah-h-h-h.