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Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by extrobe
(Post 12222968)
Well to be fair, I have young children, so we're not exactly drinking out all that often (as in, never really!), so the above is far more likely :rofl:
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Re: What language differences are there?
The Milton mango is not a fruit and the Milton Mango tree not a tree.
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Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Swerv-o
(Post 12220877)
As it is in NSW - well 568 ml I think, but what's a couple of ml between friends?
Schooners are 425 ml in NSW - What have you been drinking out of a schooner Beoz? Some pubs serve Schmidis, which is a small Schooner - about 330 ml I think - enough for a bottle of European lager. Though of course they charge the same price as a schooner... S |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Kim67
(Post 12223534)
The Milton mango is not a fruit and the Milton Mango tree not a tree.
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Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by extrobe
(Post 12223546)
So Milton Mango I've figured out - but less sure about Milton Mango Tree - unless it's a pub/bar?
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Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Kim67
(Post 12223565)
It's the XXXX Factory. It does have a bar.
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Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Swerv-o
(Post 12220715)
Maroon in pronounced marone for some reason - unless you're discussing the band Maroon 5, when it is Maroon.
S My Cockney rhyming slang is totally stuffed now, as I've got it totally mixed up with the Aussie version. Billy lids Dead Horse Mystery Bags Lionel Rose Barry Crocker Septic Tank Germaine Greer Eau de Cologne Reg Grundys Oxford Scholar Joe Blake Drop Kick Jimmy Britts All dying out now though, Not heard any of my kids or their friends use it at all. |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
(Post 12228848)
My Cockney rhyming slang is totally stuffed now, as I've got it totally mixed up with the Aussie version.
Billy lids Dead Horse Mystery Bags Lionel Rose Barry Crocker Septic Tank Germaine Greer Eau de Cologne Reg Grundys Oxford Scholar Joe Blake Drop Kick Jimmy Britts All dying out now though, Not heard any of my kids or their friends use it at all. |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
(Post 12228884)
I think most of those must have been regional - perhaps just Sydney - and with a limited life. The only one on your list that I remember from when I lived in Oz is "Joe Blake", which in the Queensland bush was a snake. But that may have meant something different where you live(d). At a guess, your "Reg Grundys" meant "undies", but men's underpants in my day were "dungers". I don't even know who Reg Grundy was! We didn't use all that much rhyming slang, and much of it was freshly minted by comedians.
Reg Grundy was a famous TV producer ..... His most famous TV shows being Neighbours, Sale of the Century, and Blankety Blanks.... he did 100's of others though. |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
(Post 12228887)
The whole lot are heard in Melbourne amongst people of my Vintage. Joe Blake, definitely snake in Melbourne as well.
Reg Grundy was a famous TV producer ..... His most famous TV shows being Neighbours, Sale of the Century, and Blankety Blanks.... he did 100's of others though. |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
(Post 12228904)
OK, thanks for the info, Ozzie. So what was Eau de Cologne?
Phone :) In London it's the Dog (and bone).... or used to be, all dying out now. I really get erm mixed up now. |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
(Post 12228909)
Phone :)
In London it's the Dog (and bone).... or used to be, all dying out now. I really get erm mixed up now. In the Queensland of my earlier days (I left when I was 23), we used very little rhyming slang, and what we did use was generally done self-consciously. A Jimmy Riddle was a pee, but again the use was self-conscious. We would say we had to see a man about a dog, but that too was a semi-joke euphemism. In the bush the language tended to be laconic - we rarely used an unnecessary syllable. Our all-purpose greeting was "G'day"; "g'day, mate" was scorned as poofy Southern gabbiness! |
Re: What language differences are there?
Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
(Post 12228930)
I have that other thread in The Barbie that asks what happened to the slang of decades ago, and your thread here adds to my confusion. To think that only one of the terms on your list meant anything to me! My guess for Reg Grundys might be right, and I could probably guess what the Jimmy Britts are, but that's all. And I've never heard of either name.
In the Queensland of my earlier days (I left when I was 23), we used very little rhyming slang, and what we did use was generally done self-consciously. A Jimmy Riddle was a pee, but again the use was self-conscious. We would say we had to see a man about a dog, but that too was a semi-joke euphemism. In the bush the language tended to be laconic - we rarely used an unnecessary syllable. Our all-purpose greeting was "G'day"; "g'day, mate" was scorned as poofy Southern gabbiness! |
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