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- - A Pom (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/pom-424416/)

The Ozzies have the "Wallaby"
The Kiwis have the "Kiwi"
The French have the "Frog"
The Saf's have the "Springbok"

What sort of animal (imaginary if need be) would we create for "the Pom"?

Something with affection please not distain.

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Originally Posted by thebears (Post 4367751)

Got three of them... Lions...

Or a seriously BFO Dragon...

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Originally Posted by thebears (Post 4367751)

Not sure the frog is supposed to be complimentary lol :p

British Bulldog!

Not a Pom, as no one even knows what it means, not prisoner of mother england so what exactly does it mean? Pom indeed may become a racial term in the near future! :ohmy: if it isn't already to many...

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Originally Posted by Australia_bound? (Post 4367773)

Yes I thought of a british bull dog but then my wife said " I don't think the women would take kindly to be associated with a big fat dribble monster".

PS I like bulldogs so no bias - can picture one with a big gold chain with "Chav" around its neck - not the picture we need on the world stage.:sneaky:

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Originally Posted by rodders39 (Post 4367771)

Got three of them... Lions...

Or a seriously BFO Dragon...

I like the idea of the dragon:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by thebears (Post 4367848)

I like the idea of the dragon:thumbup:

Called Puff...! :rofl:

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Originally Posted by thebears (Post 4367848)

I like the idea of the dragon:thumbup:

That would be the Welsh. Didn't George Formby batter a dragon to death with his eukulele while on tour in Libya and later become a saint in the eyes of the English? It would probably more relevant to adopt the lion but dogs, cats and ferrets are more appropriate.

:)

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Originally Posted by Australia_bound? (Post 4367773)

The slang term "Pom" was originally an abbreviation of "pomegranate" (used as rhyming slang for "immigrant").

This is was authoritatively confirmed by than D H Lawrence, who made the following remarks in 1923:

Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably pommygranate, is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood "thins down", by their round and ruddy cheeks.

Earlier evidence is found in The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia (1920) by H J Rumsey, who observes that the original term for an immigrant in Melbourne was "Jimmy Grant".

"Jimmy Grant" soon morphed into "Pommy Grant"; possibly an oblique reference to pomegranates (which fresh-off-the-boat Poms quickly resembled). But whatever the reason, "pomegranate" for "immigrant" became the new rhyming slang of choice. This was inevitably truncated (as most Aussie slang words are) to "Pom".

The popular belief that "POME" or "POHM" are acronyms for "Prisoner of Mother England" and "Prisoner of Her Majesty" and were originally embroidered on the uniforms of convicts, is false.

See attached for a photograph of a genuine convict uniform (the last known in existence), and note the absence of acronyms.

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Originally Posted by stuckinblighty (Post 4367815)

a hedgehog

Spot on. The perfect symbol.

:)

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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede (Post 4367924)

So why are only the English supposed to be Poms then? When the evidence you provide points to it being a universally encompassing term for just about any immigrant into Australia!

I was told by a lovely lady who was an "Ozzie", That POM stood for PERFECTION OF MAN...
I just kissed her on the cheek and agreed politly....;) :D :thumbup:

Why not a proper Pom-eranian? :)

PMSL :lol: .... Looks like something my cat coughed up !!

The Horse :)

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Originally Posted by shears (Post 4368021)

Why not a proper Pom-eranian? :)

Which end is which?