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But we can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.
Surely the “ light” at the end of the tunnel?
But we can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.
Well when I was growing up the currency was a trey,zac,a bob,2 bob,10bob,quid,fiver and a brick.I still use the following vernacular and my kids cringe at how old and embarrassing I am.
I call a ten dollar note a Blue Swimmer, a twenty is a Lobbie (Lobster) and fifty is a McGarratt (Hawaii five-O). The hundred was referred to as a Grey Nurse.
I call my children Tin Lids (kids), admire Mr Clipped in his Bag of Fruit (suit) and reign supreme as the Trouble & Strife (wife).
Who gives a flying duck if I speak weird? Last time I looked this is Stralya.
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Not happy jan
Please explain
Not happy Jan!A Yellow Pages TV ad.
I had a boss called Jan at that time. Used that term time and time again.Not happy Jan!
Please explain.
Asked on 60 minutes in 1996.
I still use the following vernacular and my kids cringe at how old and embarrassing I am.
I call a ten dollar note a Blue Swimmer, a twenty is a Lobbie (Lobster) and fifty is a McGarratt (Hawaii five-O). The hundred was referred to as a Grey Nurse.
I call my children Tin Lids (kids), admire Mr Clipped in his Bag of Fruit (suit) and reign supreme as the Trouble & Strife (wife).
Who gives a flying duck if I speak weird? Last time I looked this is Stralya.
I love your currency descriptions.
I can understand Blue Swimmer, Lobbie (Lobster) and Grey Nurse. These all relate to the colours. The paper 50 was a mixture of yellow and greens. Having watched Hawaii Five O I should get the reference but I'm only guessing. Yellow for the sand on the beach maybe, or did the person on the note look like McGarratt.
Spend some for fun but save some too - that's what all good SSBs do (Thanks Zig and Zag)
May be so but does that mean they did not exist?Don't know that you can mention them anymore since one of them (Zig) was a paedophile.
American leaders aren’t always so contrite. As captured by the tapes he made of his presidency, Richard Nixon in 1971 called Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin’s father, a “pompous egghead,” accompanied by other, much saltier language. When the elder Trudeau found out he had been called one particular insult by Nixon, he responded: “I’ve been called worse things by better people.”
and there was also a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Meant the sameMy mother often used to say.... he's a few shillings short of a quid (aka: assumed to be intellectually challenged)
I'll start with the phrase:
"Telling a furphy" - is, I believe a tall story or white lie. An old guy told me it originated from WW1 where the Victorian made Furphy water tank was hauled around the battlefields by mule and become a focal point to regale with tales of battle, with quite a few of those tales embellished somewhat.
What pearlers do you hold dear?