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* The ''[[Weekly World News]]'' once ran an article about China digging a hole to America to invade it. Similarly, [[The Sun]] recently ran a report saying that a group of Chinese miners dug their way to Nevada by accident and apologized, and the government kept the incident under wraps.
* From ''[[Great Expectations]]'': "Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? 'Deep,' said Wemmick, 'as Australia.' Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe."
* [[What -a -Mess]], in one story, tries to dig a hole to Australia, because it's a very hot summer day and since the Cat-Next-Door has just told him that it's winter in Australia, he thinks a trip to Australia is just what he needs to cool down. Of course, What-a-Mess is a dog, [[Dogs Are Dumb|and not a particularly bright one at that.]]
 
== Live Action TV ==
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While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boys
The hangman fumbles with the noose
[[Ear Worm|She gotta get behind the mule]]
In the mornin' and plow
** Bonus points for doing it with a spoon, easily multiplying his worktime by tenfold. Tom Waits is that badass. }}
* Knorkator - Weg Nach Unten deals with someone trying to get away from it all by digging a hole and staying there. He ends up in Australia and mentions he has dug to far.
* Alluded to in [[They Might Be Giants]]' "Ana Ng". The lyrics describe making a hole perpendicular to the singer's town in a globe that will lead to a foreign nation where [[Girl of My Dreams|Ana Ng]] lives, the idea being that the singer's [[Star-Crossed Lovers|true love]] lives on the exact opposite side of the world.
 
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Web Original ==
* [[5 -Second Films|I'm Digging]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNbv4sIDiY To Chi-]
 
== Western Animation ==