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Uluru

Uluru
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About Uluru

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith. It crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, 335 km (208 mi) south-west of Alice Springs.

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People often steal bits of Uluru, but they almost always send it back — they get these bits of Uluru sent through the post to the national park.

from 44: No Such Thing As A Vegan Fryup, 2015-01-24 at 00:08:08 · read transcript

Other times Uluru came up

  1. Then taking that bit further, that means every animal in the whole world should sound like a lion. Why don't they? Apart from a lion, which should disguise itself as an inoffensive clump of grass. Or a bit of Uluru rock. Here's a thing, though, you've hit on something, which is that there is an actual moth called the Asian corn borer who mimics the sound of a bat to freak out females. When they hear it, they freeze in fear.

    No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 · listen

  2. When do we see Australia? Oh, so maybe air is rock? Is there like a weird bit of water that comes down? Water comes down there occasionally, but airs rock. I don't know if you know. Or Uluru is not a fake rock. Hang on. It's a fake rock that we see on our TV. A fake waterfall. waterfall, but there's in Australia that's on British TV sometimes. Very famous waterfall.

    No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen

  3. There's an increasing trend of people posting them back because they feel really apologetic. Oh, they suffer bad luck in their life. They think, well, it must be because I took that rock from Uluru. So they post it back. They get about one every day. The thing is, they return to the National Park. Before they get back to the National Park, they are quarantined.

    No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 · listen

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