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downunderpom Mar 24th 2004 11:47 pm


Originally posted by Megalania
The Unfortunate History that launched a 1,000 Month Empire.
Yer being all cryptic again, Megs - expand on that, if you would be so kind!! :D

jib Mar 24th 2004 11:48 pm

Five down, six across.




jib

renth Mar 24th 2004 11:49 pm


Originally posted by Bix
Oi DUPman - what you bin sayin whilst I slumbered. :D
I keep telling you I am Cornish not English.
We aint in England we are attached to it. Actually we are not at all attached to it so I should say joined to it. :D

I am a Celt through and through born and bred in the heartland of the clay industry of mid Cornwall. In fact have very rarely ventured beyond it's borders which is why so many people are shocked about my OZ plans.
When you get here you'll be just another pom

downunderpom Mar 24th 2004 11:49 pm


Originally posted by jib
Five down, six across.




jib
(5,3)?

Easy - "silly sod'! :D

MrsDagboy Mar 24th 2004 11:56 pm


Originally posted by renth
When you get here you'll be just another pom
LOL ;)

DUP, cockney aussie sounds slightly scary :scared: :eek:

downunderpom Mar 24th 2004 11:59 pm


Originally posted by MrsDagboy
LOL ;)

DUP, cockney aussie sounds slightly scary :scared: :eek:
A lot of transportees were Cockneys - so Cockney (esp. the rhyming slang) is a part of Aussie culture and language. Why do you think Only Fools and Horses does so well out here?! :D

Anyway, you're an Aussie, so you know that! :)

Megalania Mar 24th 2004 11:59 pm


Originally posted by downunderpom
Yer being all cryptic again, Megs - expand on that, if you would be so kind!! :D
Aus had to invent state / city rivalries for a bit of white-fella fun. The British still go on about intra-island(s) ethnicity after hundreds of years. Some couldn't take the bickering and starvation and hooked off shore.

renth Mar 25th 2004 12:01 am


Originally posted by downunderpom
A lot of transportees were Cockneys - so Cockney (esp. the rhyming slang) is a part of Aussie culture and language. Why do you think Only Fools and Horses does so well out there?! :D

Anyway, you're an Aussie, so you know that! :)

The late, great Barry Sheene - loved by Australia. I bet there was more tributes to him in the Australian media than there were in the UK.

hevs Mar 25th 2004 12:05 am


Originally posted by jib
Five down, six across.




jib
5,6
quite clever:) :p

Ceri Mar 25th 2004 12:07 am


Originally posted by downunderpom
Do you know what the whole quotation is? I know that it's "Death to all Englishmen..." but I don't know the full phrase or the full translation..... :confused: And I don't speak any more Welsh than Ois and Nachois, and Dioch 'n vowr (Which is phonetic spelling BEFORE you tell me off! :D )
You mean this very popular drinking greeting, which can be heard ringing out through the village pubs after their religious Sunday services in church ? :D

Iechyd da bob Cymro twll dyn bob Sais!

Good health to all Welsh, All english( ie - B*gger off to the English) are arseholes . ..in the nicest possible way of course (you're going get me in trouble!!... I didn't say it honest gov!... I never, never say it myself, tut tut).

Megalania Mar 25th 2004 12:11 am


Originally posted by Ceri
You mean this very popular drinking greeting, which can be heard ringing out through the village pubs after their religious Sunday services in church ? :D

Iechyd da bob Cymro twll dyn bob Sais!

Good health to all Welsh, All english( ie - B*gger off to the English) are arseholes . ..in the nicest possible way of course (you're going get me in trouble!!... I didn't say it honest gov!... I never, never say it myself, tut tut).
Please explain: Why do I need you in my country?

downunderpom Mar 25th 2004 12:12 am


Originally posted by Ceri
you're going get me in trouble
Not me, Guv! Mrs DUP would skin me alive!! :D :D

Can I have a phonetic conversion of 'yacky da', too, please?

My party trick when I was out here last was rattling off Llanfairpwlgwyn... The other kids could never get enough of it! They're a weird mob.... (good title for a book, that!) :D

downunderpom Mar 25th 2004 12:13 am


Originally posted by hevs
5,6
quite clever:) :p
Hevs! Empty your PM box!

downunderpom Mar 25th 2004 12:14 am


Originally posted by Megalania
Please explain: Why do I need you in my country?
Don't be a dick, Megs. Ceri was responding to a direct question from me.

Megalania Mar 25th 2004 12:19 am


Originally posted by downunderpom
Don't be a dick, Megs. Ceri was responding to a direct question from me.
MMM, yeah. But not the first time she has expounded thus. Homesickness - OK. Un-welcome Un-loading - NOK.


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