[modeleng] Re: Australia Day
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:43:47 -0800 (PST)
Ummmm! Now I need an Australian dictionary as well as
a Yorkshire one!!
"The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! and we
won't be home 'til it's over Over There!!"
Al Messer
--- Lee Grant <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks peter.
> I was just going through a "How do you tell if you
> are a true Aussie?" list
> and realise that we are a bit different down here
> there wouldn't be to many
> people that didn't live here that could understand
> this lot.
>
> You know you're Australian if .
>
> 1. You know the meaning of the word "girt".
>
> 2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or
> worn.
>
> 3. You think it's normal to have a leader called
> Kevin.
>
> 4. You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired
> petrol discount vouchers
> stuffed in your wallet or purse.
>
> 5. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather
> than use it for
> something illegal such as watering the garden.
>
> 6. You believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in
> your son's pencil case
> when he first attends school.
>
> 7. When you hear that an American "roots for his
> team" you wonder how often
> and with whom.
>
> 8. You understand that the phrase "a group of women
> wearing black thongs"
> refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it
> sounds.
>
> 9. You pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
>
> 10. You pronounce Penrith as "Pen-riff".
>
> 11. You believe the "l" in the word "Australia" is
> optional.
>
> 12. You can translate: "Dazza and Shazza played Acca
> Dacca on the way to
> Maccas."
>
> 13. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation
> to decorate its highways
> with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
>
> 14. You call your best friend "a total bastard" but
> someone you really,
> truly despise is just "a bit of a bastard".
>
> 15. You think "Woolloomooloo" is a perfectly
> reasonable name for a place.
>
> 16. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
>
> 17. You believe it makes sense for a country to have
> a $1 coin that's twice
> as big as its $2 coin.
>
> 18. You understand that "Wagga Wagga" can be
> abbreviated to "Wagga" but "Woy
> Woy" can't be called "Woy".
>
> 19. You believe that cooked-down axlegrease makes a
> good breakfast spread.
>
> 20. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually
> Australian, until they stuff
> up, at which point they again become Kiwis.
>
> 21. Hamburger. Beetroot. Of course.
>
> 22. You know that certain words must, by law, be
> shouted out during any
> rendition of the Angels' song Am I Ever Gonna See
> Your Face Again.
>
> 23. You believe, as an article of faith, that the
> confectionary known as the
> Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing
> year.
>
> 24. You still don't get why the "Labor" in
> "Australian Labor Party" is not
> spelt with a "u".
>
> 25. You wear ugh boots outside the house.
>
> 26. You believe, as an article of faith, that every
> important discovery in
> the world was made by an Australian but then sold
> off to the Yanks for a
> pittance.
>
> 27. You believe that the more you shorten someone's
> name the more you like
> them.
>
> 28. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find
> yourself able to order
> takeaway fluently in every Asian language.
>
> 29. You understand that "excuse me" can sound rude,
> while "scuse me" is
> always polite.
>
> 30. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on
> occasion via your nose.
>
> 31. You understand that "you" has a plural and that
> it's "youse".
>
> 32. You know it's not summer until the steering
> wheel is too hot to handle.
>
> 33. Your biggest family argument over the summer
> concerned the rules for
> beach cricket.
>
> 34. You shake your head in horror when companies try
> to market what they
> call "Anzac cookies".
>
> 35. You still think of Kylie as "that girl off
> Neighbours".
>
> 36. When returning home from overseas, you expect to
> be brutally
> strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're
> trying to sneak in fruit.
>
> 37. You believe the phrase "smart casual" refers to
> a pair of black
> tracky-daks, suitably laundered.
>
> 38. You understand that all train timetables are
> works of fiction.
>
> 39. When working behind a bar, you understand male
> customers will feel the
> need to offer an excuse whenever they order
> low-alcohol beer.
>
> 40. You get choked up with emotion by the first
> verse of the national anthem
> and then have trouble remembering the second.
>
> 41. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the
> facts deemed essential in
> the government's new test for migrants.
>
> 42. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that
> no one says "cobber".
>
> 43. And you will immediately forward this list to
> other Australians, here
> and overseas, realising that only they will
> understand.
>
> Happy Australia Day.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:38 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Australia Day
>
>
> > Happy Australia Day to all the 'dununda' list
> members!
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