From:	Bob Tockley zzdeden@*******.com.au
Subject:	Aussie Question [OT] (Kinda)
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:29:37 +1000

> Granted, I just find it amusing that the same word can have two
>totally different meanings in different regions that (ostensibly) speak
>the same language. Take "bloody" for instance. Here it means, well,
>covered with blood. It's not swearing, and schoolchildren don't get
>reprimanded for saying it. When I was in Scotland this summer I came
>across a few others that sort of made me go, "uh, okay, whatever you say."

Children get reprimanded for saying it?

>Marc (whose favorite bit of New Zealander derogatory slang is "dag," the
>term originally used to describe the shit-encrusted dreadlock of wool
>hanging pendulously from a sheep's ass.)

Hehe. I'll give you that. My favourite, however, is the phrase "Well,
I'll be buggered." Nuff said.

(>) ARKHAM
"I'll tell you what - we'll fight fair, okay? Just stand over there for
a sec while I get ready... back a bit... to the left... left... left...
right on top of that big set of concentric circles.... yeah, that's
right... Now hold still....."