Fair suck of the sav! Don't come the raw prawn with me sport. (With
apologies to Barry McKenzie).
> -Original Message-
> No, Neale, we've just gotten used to it. (All very embarassing, I'm
> sure.)
>
> What we were all actually hoping for was for you to stop using very
> strange Aussie-i
On 06.06.2002 at 05:19:57, "Ferguson, Neale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Fair suck of the sav! Don't come the raw prawn with me sport. (With
> apologies to Barry McKenzie).
There's a commercial on OZ TV at the moment that features:
*) a boy called 'Rowdy', who doesn't speak
*) a beach girl in a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> *) a boy called 'Rowdy', who doesn't speak
That's why Ashley Mallet is called Rowdy.
There's also Blue or Bluey, coz they have red hair.
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Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/
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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 07:09, Rod Nash wrote:
> Exposing the world to Aussie-isms is goodness. It raises everyone to a
> higher level of awareness!
A country where everything that isnt a sheep is poisonous, where an
air fridge is not something you keep beer in but the middle of a range
of numbers
>Alan
>PS: you can export all the outback steakhouses you like providing you
>promise to take back fosters, and rolf harris 8)
Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
Harries was born in Cardiff! But I do agree with you that he should be
transported! ;o)
Marcus
> Exposing the world to Aussie-isms is goodness. It raises everyone to a
> higher level of awareness!
>
> Exposing Australia to the world by the proliferation of Outback Steakhouse
> restaurants is badness and must be stopped immediately.
What's funniest is that Outback Steakhouse head (
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Fair suck of the sav! Don't come the raw prawn with me sport. (With
apologies to Barry McKenzie).
> -Original Message-
> No, Neale, we've just gotten used to it. (All very embarassing, I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
> Harries was born in Cardiff! But I do agree with you that he should be
> transported! ;o)
Dunno about Harries, but Rolf Harris's mum used to live just up the road.
Literally, about 200 metres from her
> Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
> Harries was born in Cardiff!
To which the logical reply is: "What did he do to a sheep to get to Australia?"
However - he was born in Perth, Western Australia.
(I think his wife - Alwen - might be Welsh.)
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Phil Payne
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From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm
[snip]
>
> Alan
> PS: you can export all the outback steakhouses
Oh boy, australian jokes about sheep... outside the scope of
listserv guidelines...
jj
>From: Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm
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ng what Kookaburra wings are really
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>
>
>
>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:15:46 -0400
>From:"Ferguson, Neale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm
>
>Fair suck of the s
> A country where everything that isnt a sheep is poisonous, where an
> air fridge is not something you keep beer in but the middle of a range
> of numbers, and with a capital city that can't even manage a proper rush
> hour.
Fair suck of the sauce bottle there mate. Raw prawns are just great - I
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
>> Harries was born in Cardiff! But I do agree with you that he should be
>> transported! ;o)
>
>
>Dunno about Harries, but Rolf Harris's mum used to live just up the road.
>Literally, about 200 metres
> Oh boy, australian jokes about sheep... outside the scope of
> listserv guidelines...
I would have thought any discussion of Rolf Harris well outside 'list guidelines'.
Yet it's my post you pick on ...
Do I expect yet another censorship attempt?
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http://www.isham-research.c
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:14:44AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Alan
> > PS: you can export all the outback steakhouses you like providing you
> > promise to take back fosters, and rolf harris 8)
> Sorry, Alan, but the Outback Steakhouse is a purely American invention;
> founded in Tampa FL,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >> Sorry to disappoint you, old friend, but I seem to recall that Rolf
> >> Harries was born in Cardiff! But I do agree with you that he should be
> >> transported! ;o)
> >
> >
> >Dunno about Harries, but Rolf Harris's mum used to live just up the road.
> >Literally, a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Oh boy, australian jokes about sheep... outside the scope of listserv
> guidelines...
Bah.
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John Summerfield
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Identify the Thing You Wish to Eat. Realize it's deathly toxic and
> if it so much as breathes if your general direction you will die
As with all good tales there's an element of truth there;-)
We have more varieties of snake than any other country, and two thirds of
What happened to step 5 of the kill and eat scenario?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adam Thorntoncc: (bcc: Michael Short/Towers
Perrin)
sarcasm
Se
>From: Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcas
>
>>Oh boy, australian jokes about sheep... outside the scope of
>>listserv guidelines...
>
>I would have thought any discussion of Rolf Harris well outside 'list
>guidelines'.
>
>Yet i
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Michael Short/Towers Perrin wrote:
> What happened to step 5 of the kill and eat scenario?
It was poisoned by something, and died a horrible death.
Adam
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mistakes
Rod Nash wrote:
> Exposing Australia to the world by the proliferation of Outback Steakhouse
> restaurants is badness and must be stopped immediately.
>
Mate,
Wash your mouth out with soap (pick your own transport)!
The Shinagawa Outback is one of the beacons of light for a South African
livin
On Thursday 06 June 2002 08:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Exposing Australia to the world by the proliferation of Outback
> > Steakhouse restaurants is badness and must be stopped immediately.
>
> What's funniest is that Outback Steakhouse head (hind?) quarters
> is here in F
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:58:40AM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote:
>right with my wife, who does not. They do not have English muffins.
That is not entirely surprising, since somehow there seems to be a very
distinct trend to call things by the wrong name. Whomever coined the
term 'French fries
At 15:56 14-06-02, Kris Van Hees wrote:
>At least Belgian beer is not being called anything else! Except in extreme
>cases, such as asking at an Applebee's what Belgian beers they have, the
>waiteress going to the bar to check and coming back stating that the only
>Belgian beer they have is Hein
ED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm
> At 15:56 14-06-02, Kris Van Hees wrote:
>
> >At least Belgian beer is not being called anything else! Except in
extreme
> >cases, such as asking at an Applebee's wh
Talking of Danish beer (Heineken), England won 3-0 today - hee hee
Ciao
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Dave Jones
Sent: 15 June 2002 16:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm
R
s effective use of irony and sarcasm
Talking of Danish beer (Heineken), England won 3-0 today - hee hee
Ciao
Mark
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Dave Jones
Sent: 15 June 2002 16:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Neale's ef
At 16:55 15-06-02, Dave Jones wrote:
>Rob,
>I think you must mean that she was not yet 21...I know of no state where the
>legal drinking age is 27...
>Dave Jones
This was Notre Dame I think, and I was told legal age was 27. Hey,
I did 3 or 4 timezones driving from Chicago to Notre Dame so there
Rob van der Heij wrote:
> But *I* was going to drink it. Her task was only to take the money
> for my meal...
During my university years, I worked at a restaurant in a state where the
drinking age is (and was) 18. Licencing laws stated that minors were not
permitted to serve alcohol... but it
> Since the area in which the person who poured the drinks worked looked
> awfully like a bar, confusion would ensue when a customer got tired of
> waiting for table service and went to the bar for a drink...
Here' if you're too young to drink it, you're too young to work there.
I'm sure the m
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Vic Cross
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [LINUX-390] [Way OT] Drinking age (was [OT] Neale's effective
use of
> irony and sarcasm)
>
> Rob van der Heij wrote:
>
> > But *I* was
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