'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Jan 19th 2004, 8:25 am
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'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Further to a thread of last week on the use of the Aussie vernacular this article appeared in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
Jan 22nd 2004, 8:49 pm
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Re: 'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Originally posted by OzTennis
Further to a thread of last week on the use of the Aussie vernacular this article appeared in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
Further to a thread of last week on the use of the Aussie vernacular this article appeared in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
The poor Yanks do get blamed for everthing why not this. it's funny tho Bro.....
have a nice day.......
Jan 23rd 2004, 8:07 am
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Re: 'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Originally posted by OzTennis
Further to a thread of last week on the use of the Aussie vernacular this article appeared in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
Further to a thread of last week on the use of the Aussie vernacular this article appeared in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...966418,00.html
Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit
From Matthew Brace in Brisbane
AUSTRALIANS are lamenting the erosion of their vernacular. Or, to put it another way: “Strewth Bruce, the old Strine’s goin’ down the gurgler�.
Some language experts believe that classic phrases are vanishing. “Sheilas� are becoming “chics� and “babes�, and “fair dinkum� is being replaced with the bland “absolutely� or “honest�.
Racing commentators no longer scream into the microphone that the nags were out of the gates and “off like a bride’s nightie�, but that they ran rather fast. Nor do they accuse the jockey who missed a fence of having “kangaroos in his top paddock�, but that he was, simply, a bit mad.
Other rich phrases in the Australian vernacular now rarely heard include “to pass in your marbles�, meaning to die, “budgie smugglers�, referring to tight swimming trunks, “date�, for backside, “grouse�, for great, and “Hell, West and Crooked�, which Queenslanders use to mean an utter disaster.
Bruce Elder, a social commentator and former English lecturer who is a contributor to the Macquarie Australian Dictionary, is one of those mourning the passing of an era.
“It seems to me that true Australianisms, those expressions which some people now call bush or regional Australian, are rapidly disappearing,� he said.
Some did not stand a chance. The phrase “he’s just shot through like a Bondi tram� shot through itself when Sydney engineers pulled out the tram lines.
He blames globalisation, in particular America’s strong influence on the country.
“Australians used to go to ‘the pictures’ or ‘the fillums’ in ‘picture theatres’. Today these have virtually disappeared, to be replaced by the anonymous multiplex,� he said.
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
Sue Butler, the publisher and editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, agrees. “The cool kids of the cities don’t say ‘G’day mate’ any more except as a parody of their elders,� she said. “The favoured way of greeting each other is to say ‘bro’ and give each other a hand slap.�
Ms Butler believes that the change is part of a larger picture, as Australia emerges from its geographical isolation to compete with the rest of the world in trade, politics, science and the arts.
“City Australians are trying not to say things that appear quaint on the world stage. In the country, however, they are doing the reverse and saying, ‘we are not going to be impressed by all this international rubbish’.�
Ms Butler predicts that Australian English will end up with both old and new: “We will have biscuits and cookies.�
The strine dictionary
G’day: hello
Sheila: single girl
Fair dinkum: honest, genuine
Arvo: afternoon
Crook: sick, broken, useless
Rack off, hairy legs: go away
Barbie: barbecue
She’ll be apples: it will turn out all right
Walloper: policeman
Cobber-dobber: one who informs on a colleague
Hit the turps: drink alcohol
Dunny budgie: blowfly (a dunny is an outhouse)
All done up like a sore toe: dressed in one’s best clothes
Spit the dummy: get very annoyed at something
Mad as a cut snake: very angry
Wouldn’t stop a pig in a hallway: bandy-legged
Come the raw prawn: attempt to deceive
Easy as shoving butter up a porcupine’s bum with a knitting-needle on a hot day: difficult
Hoon: fool, idiot
It will be interesting to see when Lord Hutton delivers his report whether a (Geoff) hoon is a fool or idiot!
OzTennis
I will commit the term "Budgie Smuggler" to memory, for use ASAP!
Jan 23rd 2004, 8:38 am
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Re: 'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Originally posted by jeannie
The poor Yanks do get blamed for everthing why not this. it's funny tho Bro..... have a nice day.......
The poor Yanks do get blamed for everthing why not this. it's funny tho Bro..... have a nice day.......
Yep, they've got a fair bit to answer for.
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Jan 23rd 2004, 8:44 am
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The Yankees may have perfected Mass Production but they certainly perfected Mass Marketing - their principal WMD.
Jan 23rd 2004, 8:44 am
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Budgies smugglers are alive and disturbingly popular. I saw a bloke the other day in a pair with "budgie smuggler" printed on the rear.
Jan 23rd 2004, 9:00 am
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Originally posted by bondipom
Budgies smugglers are alive and disturbingly popular. I saw a bloke the other day in a pair with "budgie smuggler" printed on the rear.
Budgies smugglers are alive and disturbingly popular. I saw a bloke the other day in a pair with "budgie smuggler" printed on the rear.
Thought of you BP when they showed Bondi beach on a new life down under last night. I wondered which of the surfers was you!
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Jan 23rd 2004, 9:06 am
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Originally posted by OzTennis
Thought of you BP when they showed Bondi beach on a new life down under last night. I wondered which of the surfers was you!
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Thought of you BP when they showed Bondi beach on a new life down under last night. I wondered which of the surfers was you!
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Jan 23rd 2004, 9:09 am
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Re: 'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
I haven't been able to get this song out of my head since mentioning the styrofoam garbage for the ozone layer!!
Rocking In The Free World
(Neil Young)
There are colors on the street...red, white, and blue
People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes
There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forgive 'em, any way I can, yeah...
I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands
Under an old street light, oh, near a garbage can
Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done with it
That's one more kid, that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool
Keep on rockin' in the free world (3x)
(The US of A, the United States)
(Ain't a free place, it's not a free place)
(Ain't got the right to choose, barely got the right to vote)
(There they got the right to make an honest buck)
(The USA ain't a free, free place)
There's a thousand points of light for the colored man
There's a kinder, gentler police man's hand
There's department stores, and toilet paper
Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer
There's a man of the people, said 'keep hope alive'
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
Keep on rockin' in the free world (4x)
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Rocking In The Free World
(Neil Young)
There are colors on the street...red, white, and blue
People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes
There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forgive 'em, any way I can, yeah...
I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands
Under an old street light, oh, near a garbage can
Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done with it
That's one more kid, that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool
Keep on rockin' in the free world (3x)
(The US of A, the United States)
(Ain't a free place, it's not a free place)
(Ain't got the right to choose, barely got the right to vote)
(There they got the right to make an honest buck)
(The USA ain't a free, free place)
There's a thousand points of light for the colored man
There's a kinder, gentler police man's hand
There's department stores, and toilet paper
Styrofoam garbage for the Ozone layer
There's a man of the people, said 'keep hope alive'
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
Keep on rockin' in the free world (4x)
OzTennis
Jan 23rd 2004, 9:13 am
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Originally posted by bondipom
You never know. I wear very inconspicuous gear to prevent total embarrassment. I was probably the one in the water.
You never know. I wear very inconspicuous gear to prevent total embarrassment. I was probably the one in the water.
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Jan 23rd 2004, 9:17 am
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Originally posted by OzTennis
There were thousands in the water.! The voice over said something like 'Sydney people are strictly 9 to 5, as soon as 5 comes they all flock to the beaches. Bondi is the most popular'.
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There were thousands in the water.! The voice over said something like 'Sydney people are strictly 9 to 5, as soon as 5 comes they all flock to the beaches. Bondi is the most popular'.
OzTennis
Do they flock to Bondi's pleasure beach?
Jan 23rd 2004, 9:33 am
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Originally posted by bondipom
LOL Do they flock to Bondi's pleasure beach?
LOL
Do they flock to Bondi's pleasure beach?
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Jan 23rd 2004, 9:41 am
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Originally posted by OzTennis
Again I seek recourse in the voiceover 'they flock to Bondi's golden mile of sands'. (No mention of outlet pipes and possible floating obstacles)
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Again I seek recourse in the voiceover 'they flock to Bondi's golden mile of sands'. (No mention of outlet pipes and possible floating obstacles)
OzTennis
Jan 23rd 2004, 9:53 am
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Originally posted by bondipom
What ashame the Bondi cigars did not make an appearance.
What ashame the Bondi cigars did not make an appearance.
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Jan 24th 2004, 9:17 am
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Re: 'Yanks blamed as Aussies lose their biscuit'
Originally posted by OzTennis
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
OzTennis
Biscuits have become cookies — the fault, said Mr Elder, of Sesame Street, the US-made children’s television programme.
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