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From: Andrew Simmons <andrew.simmons@xtra.co.nz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [inferno] Re: [9fans] Re: drawterm for iMac
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:00:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2qMD7.3689$9M2.288198@news.xtra.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011029211447.8C3E319A04@mail.cse.psu.edu>

I stand corrected. I was relying on "The Wonderful World of Barry Mackenzie"
as my guide to the Australian vernacular, perhaps not an altogether reliable
source.

----------
In article <040801c16189$6044f3f0$f9b9c6d4@SOMA>, boyd@fr.inter.net (Boyd
Roberts) wrote:


> From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@xtra.co.nz>
>> ... possibly because of the Australian curse "I hope all of your
>> chooks turn to emus and kick down your s***house (Australian vernacular term
>> corresponding to the US 'bathroom' ".
>
> Nope, it's:
>
>     kick your dunny door down
>
> Note the alliteration.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-29 21:14 David Gordon Hogan
2001-10-30 15:22 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-10-30 15:22 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-10-30 21:25   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-31 10:00 ` Andrew Simmons [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-25 17:18 suspect
2001-10-26  0:46 ` [inferno] " Jeff Sickel

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