Word: blokes
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...promoting environmentalism by sharing his excitement about nature. He founded his own organization for species conservation, his zoo is breeding endangered animals, and he even bought large areas in the U.S. and Australia for the creation of parks. Despite his fame, Irwin always described himself as an "ordinary bloke." But how ordinary could he have been when Australian Prime Minister John Howard said of him, "Australia has lost a wonderful and colorful son"? Raiko Lochny Berlin...
...species conservation, his zoo is breeding endangered animals, and he even bought large areas in the U.S. and Australia for the creation of parks. Millions of people all over the world were fascinated by his enjoyment of animal life. Despite his fame, Irwin always described himself as an "ordinary bloke." But how ordinary could he have been when Australian Prime Minister John Howard said of him, "Australia has lost a wonderful and colorful son"? Raiko Lochny Berlin...
...weakness." With only two majors, Pat Rafter doesn't qualify as a great, but Cooper marvels at how, as a pint-sized 13-year-old, the Queenslander tried to play a serve-volley style that was beyond him. "But all that lunging he did as a little bloke set him up," Cooper says. "He grew into a great athlete who could reach everything...
This quest is intermittently retarded by Eloise’s invasive narration. Every few chapters, we are brought back to contemporary London and treated to Eloise’s scintillating updates on her research progress, as well as her continued lusting after charming British bloke, Colin Selwick. Substitute “Firth” for “Selwick,” and you have an idea of how this plot too will develop...
...with him; he may have been an entertainer on the celebrity circuit, but Irwin was also one of us. A kindred spirit of the wild, a true fellow without guile. Every highbrow interviewer expected a buffoon and found authenticity instead. People power has declared that Irwin was a good bloke-and there's nothing the sneering smarties and wowsers can do about it. It was not surprising that Irwin's family turned down the offer of a state funeral; that sort of pomp did not match his democratic temper. Anyway, the spontaneous mourning is a fitting tribute...