Sam Kekovich in stills from the lamb ad campaign for Australia Day 2006

In the lead-up to Australia Day 2005, Kekovich headed an advertising campaign encouraging people to eat more Australian lamb.

* View the Kekovich Lamb Ad and more at the Meat and Livestock Australia website

Kekovich has performed these rants on commercials for North Melbourne Football Club membership drives, Dan Murphy's bottle shops, and encouraging people to act less ' unAustralian ' on Australia Day by eating lamb.

In 2004, Crackerjack Television started producing an Australian version of the show, which airs weekly on the Australian ESPN channel and features former Australian Rules footballer Sam Kekovich and radio and television broadcaster Russell Barwick.

Sam Kekovich ( born 11 March 1950 ) is an Australian media personality, sports commentator and former Australian rules football player.

His older brother is the former VFL full-forward Brian Kekovich, who played two seasons of senior VFL football with Carlton, including kicking four goals in Carlton's 1968 Grand Final victory.

Kekovich started his senior football career with Victorian Football League ( VFL ) club North Melbourne ( Kangaroos ) in 1968.

Kekovich is a columnist for sports website The Serve.

Created by the writers of the Fat the monologues were first piloted with AFL player John Platten and boxer Spike Cheney before the ABC asked Kekovich to perform.

I'm Sam Kekovich.

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Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

In 2011 the Dandy did a similar competition where readers voted for their favourite out of four strips, entitled Strictly Come Laughing ( a reference to Strictly Come Dancing ).

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According to some of their contemporary enemies Cathars did not accept the Trinitarian understanding of Jesus, but considered him the human form of an angel similar to Docetic Christology.

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The 7th-century Visigothic aristocracy saw itself as bearers of a particular Gothic consciousness and as guardians of old traditions such as Germanic namegiving ; probably these traditions were on the whole restricted to the family sphere ( Hispano-Roman nobles did service for Visigothic nobles already in the 5th century and the two branches of Spanish aristocracy had fully adopted similar customs two centuries later ).

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" The next ad ( 28 August 1993 ) read: " It has come to our attention that you did not abandon all art now.

" On the other hand, Chambliss supporters say the ad did not question Cleland's patriotism, but rather his judgment.

I did not conceive, create, or have anything to do with the Chambliss ad.

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" When asked to explain why there had been a retraction for the Governor but not for Sullivan, the Secretary of the Times testified: " We did that because we didn't want anything that was published by the Times to be a reflection on the State of Alabama and the Governor was, as far as we could see, the embodiment of the State of Alabama and the proper representative of the state and, furthermore, we had by that time learned more of the actual facts which the ad purported to recite and, finally, the ad did refer to the action of the state authorities and the Board of Education presumably of which the Governor is the ex-officio chairman ...." On the other hand, he testified that he did not think that " any of the language in there referred to Mr. Sullivan.

By poll, the entire national board approved the decision as did the state presidents of Massachusetts and Missouri, where a similar ad targeted the vote of Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill.

They did a second ad in 1981, for the " BL Double Bonus " campaign, which featured Corbett playing a tax inspector inquiring as to why Barker is running 4 cars.