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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:53 am
by ozover50
Hahaha!! Me neither, Sheena, but a few of the seeds planted during my formative years grew into trees and actually bore fruit!
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:09 pm
by harvey49
So the temptation to reply was too much Howard?
Can't wait for you let the folks in the US know, when you visit them, just what does go on over here! Maybe you explain, (after reading your comment about sowing seeds), why there are a number of guys over here called "Wombat"
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:58 pm
by ozover50
Yeah.... and "Bluey", "Shaggers" and "Slug"!
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:14 pm
by rick_ovic
Howard, We will have the last laugh in August, won't we? We'll be able to explain the meaning of the phrase "....a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock.." to all of our US mates!
That is, after we've crossed the Pacific ocean on the back of a platypus, eh?
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:43 pm
by ozover50
Dead right, Darren!
I'm sure there are a lot of Aussie expressions that may need an explanation!
So you're going Platypus, eh? I'm flying Cockatoo.....
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:16 pm
by leesh
My ROTC instructor in college was Australian. It's always fun to hear "drop down and give me 50 push-ups" with an accent.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:22 pm
by harvey49
Eh - Howard, cobber dingo sport, we don't av an accent do we? I dunno where people get that idea from.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:00 pm
by jnbass
them Foster's beer commercials
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:33 pm
by ozover50
Fosters, Jared??? Blecchh!!! (IMHO)
Yeah Ron... mate, they've got it all wrong!
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:34 am
by jdogric12
Hey guys... I mean mates... I just saw a movie this week called "The World's Fastest Indian" where Anthony Hopkins plays an aging motorcycle enthusiast from Invercargill, New Zealand who comes to the US to race. Anyone else seen it? Very good stuff. I was wondering how folks down under liked it.
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:32 am
by ozover50
Hi Jason.
Haven't seen the movie but I'll look out for it.
BTW, the term 'down under' doesn't include New Zealand. A lovely place it is, but Kiwis have strange accents and have a thing about sheep.
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:59 am
by sowhat
Kiwi? I thought that's a fruit!
Or a bird that cannot fly?
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:22 am
by jdogric12
Ah, interesting. In the movie, he tells people in the US he is from 'down under.' He does say 'Kiwi' a lot.
On a barely related note, I find it amusing that the new Outback Steakhouse TV commercials (here in the US at least) feature a well known Kiwi comedian. Eh. What can I say. I'm surrounded by maroons!
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:24 am
by jdogric12
...and let's face it. Who DOESN'T have a thing for sheep? Am I right people?
(For the 'slower' readers... I AM KIDDING!!! We don't have many sheep in Tampa)
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:31 am
by winston
I only have a thing for (counting) sheep when I can't fall asleep, Jason. 1...2...3...4...5...6...
Otherwise people who have a thing for sheep should get a wife er, I mean a life.
