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Hi Mates (Lyn and Gabes),
Just a quick note to let you know how much I am enjoying your posts (as Mars is). Am learning all about the foods of Australia (from Tim Tams to Orgran to meat in pastry). I'm drooling. Also love your upbeat attitudes and the term "gobsmacked".
Love,
Polly
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Gabes-Apg
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Aussie slang: -
You are a top sheila for sayin that..... I am an aussie battler here in the big smoke, there are galahs in their bags of fruit, bugging me while i have me smoko...... hope they leave me alone this arvo, they are such nasty pasties and tools. Might have rissoles for dinner.
Translation
You are a wonderful woman for saying that.... I am an australian trying to make ends meet, here in the city, there are noisy idiots in their suits, interupting me while i have my morning tea, i hope they are quiet this afternoon, they are very mean and useless males. I might have savoury meat patties made from mince for dinner
Pondering this - some of the slang could be just 'gabe speak'
apologies up front to Lyn if this is the case
You are a top sheila for sayin that..... I am an aussie battler here in the big smoke, there are galahs in their bags of fruit, bugging me while i have me smoko...... hope they leave me alone this arvo, they are such nasty pasties and tools. Might have rissoles for dinner.
Translation
You are a wonderful woman for saying that.... I am an australian trying to make ends meet, here in the city, there are noisy idiots in their suits, interupting me while i have my morning tea, i hope they are quiet this afternoon, they are very mean and useless males. I might have savoury meat patties made from mince for dinner
Pondering this - some of the slang could be just 'gabe speak'
apologies up front to Lyn if this is the case
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
Haha. We could have fun pulling your leg with obscure Aussie sayings....
Gabes - maybe we should warn them to watch out for drop bears
Gabes sentence makes perfect sense to me. Though I must admit so much strine (Aussie slang) in one sentence is more than either of us would use in normal conversation.
Lyn
The great Aussie curse: May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.
Translation:
Chook - chicken or hen
Emu - large flightless bird (bit like an ostrich)
Dunny - old fashioned outside toilet - usually a small wooden shed at a distance from the house with no plumbing - either long drop (big hole) or store and remove style.
Kicking your dunny down with you inside it is embarrassing, messy and smelly.
Gabes - maybe we should warn them to watch out for drop bears
Gabes sentence makes perfect sense to me. Though I must admit so much strine (Aussie slang) in one sentence is more than either of us would use in normal conversation.
Lyn
The great Aussie curse: May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.
Translation:
Chook - chicken or hen
Emu - large flightless bird (bit like an ostrich)
Dunny - old fashioned outside toilet - usually a small wooden shed at a distance from the house with no plumbing - either long drop (big hole) or store and remove style.
Kicking your dunny down with you inside it is embarrassing, messy and smelly.
Takes me back. I have a dear dietitian friend who lives in Melbourne and we visited in 2004. We went to a footie and enjoyed meat pies (before I was GF), had a burger with the lot, sticky date pudding, a devonshire tea, tims tams, pavlova, and many other aussie favorites. Plus we had heaps and heaps of great wine . . . seems like Aussies enjoy wine with everything. I'm so glad we visited before I got sick - wouldn't have been the same.
Mary Beth
Mary Beth
You two top sheilas are hilarious! I can't stop laughing!!! 
OK, I'll bite - what are drop bears??? Everything else seems to have a translation.
LOL at "galahs in their bags of fruit" - it conjures up such funny visual images of puffed up, self-important men. Tee Hee. And..... useless males are "tools"??? That is funnnnny. Love it! Of course, it goes without saying that none of the men on this Board are galahs or tools!
Lyn, that saying is wonderful! Especially appropriate as a curse for MCers, who by necessity must spend a lot of time on the toilet. We call those sheds "outhouses". It would be especially disastrous if an MCer's chook turned into an emu and kicked at the dunny. HAHAHAHAHA, oooooh, my stomach hurts from laughing. Thanks for some tidbits from down-under.
Love,
Polly
OK, I'll bite - what are drop bears??? Everything else seems to have a translation.
LOL at "galahs in their bags of fruit" - it conjures up such funny visual images of puffed up, self-important men. Tee Hee. And..... useless males are "tools"??? That is funnnnny. Love it! Of course, it goes without saying that none of the men on this Board are galahs or tools!
Lyn, that saying is wonderful! Especially appropriate as a curse for MCers, who by necessity must spend a lot of time on the toilet. We call those sheds "outhouses". It would be especially disastrous if an MCer's chook turned into an emu and kicked at the dunny. HAHAHAHAHA, oooooh, my stomach hurts from laughing. Thanks for some tidbits from down-under.
Love,
Polly
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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barbaranoela
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wow---we have to get Liz in this aussie lingo!!! bet she has a few good ones 2--
thanks--luved it all---
Will have to practice and as I speak to one of my friends --start sticking a few of those words--would be great to watch the Xpression on their faces!!!
Barbara--from *dah-big NOO YAWK!!!!
To add~~~~~~
my grandparents had a *dunny* in their backyard---and it is still there---of course all boarded--my remaining Uncle wants it left there---this house is about 100 years old--my mom and all aunts and uncles were born there---
When I was a younster and visited with them(in Mass.) I used that DUNNY----cus at that time they didnt have any MODERN features--as the years passed they did get some modern fixtures-like a BATHROOM--indoors~~~whoopie
Matter of fact---we all would take a Saturday night bath--in this humungous tub that was set up in the living room----my aunts would heat the water on this wood burning stove and keep filling and refilling as each one got finished---and then when clothes washing was to be done-heat up the water again--use the same metal tub---and wash the clothes---
You know it is so good to remember those dayz!!!! being I was a kid---TODAY--I doubt if I would think it so funny-
Thanks for a good laugh---and stirring up memories too
thanks--luved it all---
Will have to practice and as I speak to one of my friends --start sticking a few of those words--would be great to watch the Xpression on their faces!!!
Barbara--from *dah-big NOO YAWK!!!!
To add~~~~~~
my grandparents had a *dunny* in their backyard---and it is still there---of course all boarded--my remaining Uncle wants it left there---this house is about 100 years old--my mom and all aunts and uncles were born there---
When I was a younster and visited with them(in Mass.) I used that DUNNY----cus at that time they didnt have any MODERN features--as the years passed they did get some modern fixtures-like a BATHROOM--indoors~~~whoopie
Matter of fact---we all would take a Saturday night bath--in this humungous tub that was set up in the living room----my aunts would heat the water on this wood burning stove and keep filling and refilling as each one got finished---and then when clothes washing was to be done-heat up the water again--use the same metal tub---and wash the clothes---
You know it is so good to remember those dayz!!!! being I was a kid---TODAY--I doubt if I would think it so funny-
Thanks for a good laugh---and stirring up memories too
the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control
OH MY..................I'm LUVin it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That just made my day to hear the lingo.........I would love to visit some day!
Love and hugs,
Mars
That just made my day to hear the lingo.........I would love to visit some day!Love and hugs,
Mars
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
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Gabes-Apg
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Yes in Australia the credibility of whether it is a good or bad town is
a) how good the meat pie is at the local bakery (the pastry and the filling both have to be good)
b) how cold and good tasting the beer is at the pub and
bb) if the cook at the pub cooks a good steak
bbb) if the pub shows austalian sports on their tv's none of that american stuff
(picture hugh jackman type, jeans, boots, checked shirt, hat coming in from working on the farm all week)
mbeezie - so pleased to hear that you experienced a pie at the footy and burger with the lot
We are blessed with good quality reasonably priced wines
Barbaranola - that is awesome that you have experienced the dunny! and the copper (the wood burn stove in the laundry with bit copper pot to heat the water)
my nans place in a very small country town still has the copper set up in the laundry, the huge coal fired stove in the kitchen and the meat prep and locker room which has a hook in the ceiling and a hole in the floor below the hook where they would hang the beast, drain the blood to chop it up and store it.
I spent considerable part of my childhood on farms, and now the houses have modern facilities in them, the old 'outside dunnies' are for the men to do their business!! I remember my very conservative traditional aunt telling me that girls should NEVER enter the dunnies it is the mens domain!
a) how good the meat pie is at the local bakery (the pastry and the filling both have to be good)
b) how cold and good tasting the beer is at the pub and
bb) if the cook at the pub cooks a good steak
bbb) if the pub shows austalian sports on their tv's none of that american stuff
(picture hugh jackman type, jeans, boots, checked shirt, hat coming in from working on the farm all week)
mbeezie - so pleased to hear that you experienced a pie at the footy and burger with the lot
We are blessed with good quality reasonably priced wines
Barbaranola - that is awesome that you have experienced the dunny! and the copper (the wood burn stove in the laundry with bit copper pot to heat the water)
my nans place in a very small country town still has the copper set up in the laundry, the huge coal fired stove in the kitchen and the meat prep and locker room which has a hook in the ceiling and a hole in the floor below the hook where they would hang the beast, drain the blood to chop it up and store it.
I spent considerable part of my childhood on farms, and now the houses have modern facilities in them, the old 'outside dunnies' are for the men to do their business!! I remember my very conservative traditional aunt telling me that girls should NEVER enter the dunnies it is the mens domain!
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
for all of us not australian's to understand Gabe: http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
I was curious what a dunny was, I know now an outside toilet or not? I am just wondering, is that also one without a water flushing? With a hole in the ground or a something a have no better word for than a wooden barrel inside a wooden house? Where everything you do is left under you in the barrel, that has to be emptied once and a while? An outside toilet I don't remember, but in the early 70's at a friend's house, they didn't have a shower and a normal toilet yet, and an inside (I mean in the house) wooden barrel in a closed room was the toilet. Of course we are not talking about city live her, but a small village also on a farm.
and barbara, although from my earliest memories at home we had a shower and my mother showered us almost every day, I remember also the saturday late afternoon, early evening tub on the livingroom table at one of my ant's house. One by one we were washed in the tub. I am talking now very early 70's. Funny part is, it sounds now quite primitive, but my remembrance of it are very warm and cosy.
I was curious what a dunny was, I know now an outside toilet or not? I am just wondering, is that also one without a water flushing? With a hole in the ground or a something a have no better word for than a wooden barrel inside a wooden house? Where everything you do is left under you in the barrel, that has to be emptied once and a while? An outside toilet I don't remember, but in the early 70's at a friend's house, they didn't have a shower and a normal toilet yet, and an inside (I mean in the house) wooden barrel in a closed room was the toilet. Of course we are not talking about city live her, but a small village also on a farm.
and barbara, although from my earliest memories at home we had a shower and my mother showered us almost every day, I remember also the saturday late afternoon, early evening tub on the livingroom table at one of my ant's house. One by one we were washed in the tub. I am talking now very early 70's. Funny part is, it sounds now quite primitive, but my remembrance of it are very warm and cosy.
Well, we had an outhouse when I was growing up. Well away from the house.
Even remember the Sears & Roebuck catalog for "paper".
We got a real indoor bathroom when I was about 11 years old.
That was a while back.
Love, Shirley
Even remember the Sears & Roebuck catalog for "paper".
We got a real indoor bathroom when I was about 11 years old.
That was a while back.
Love, Shirley
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"
-- Winston Churchill
-- Winston Churchill
Hi Harma,
You have understood it correctly. The good old dunny was usually not connected to water or sewerage. Either it had a very deep hole, which was filled in when it got near the top and the dunny moved to a new spot, or it had a metal container which collected the poop and the 'nightsoil' man came around regularly and swapped it over - a bit like rubbish collection.
We had plenty of experience of these when living in country towns (rather than the big city), but they were phasing them out during the 60's and 70's.
The old dunnies are often used as tool sheds until they fall down. They do still exist, though.
I can't do the drop bear yarn at the moment. Gotta do some work......
Lyn
You have understood it correctly. The good old dunny was usually not connected to water or sewerage. Either it had a very deep hole, which was filled in when it got near the top and the dunny moved to a new spot, or it had a metal container which collected the poop and the 'nightsoil' man came around regularly and swapped it over - a bit like rubbish collection.
We had plenty of experience of these when living in country towns (rather than the big city), but they were phasing them out during the 60's and 70's.
The old dunnies are often used as tool sheds until they fall down. They do still exist, though.
I can't do the drop bear yarn at the moment. Gotta do some work......
Lyn
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Liz
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How's this for a good old Aussie poem
"Yeah"! It's gotta go" said Granddad,
"The dunny's very old,
The weather boards are split and broke,
And it'd draughty, and it's cold."
So - we had a yarn among us boys
Thought - We'll give him a surprise;
Yeah! We'd build ourselves a new one -
Shift it further up the rise.
"We'll give it a northerly aspect" said Ike
"Let the sun stream through the door;
It'll be warm and bright for readin'
Grand-dad will be pleased - I'm sure.
"That's a good idea" said Billy
As he gave the dorg a kick;
"Yeah! We'll build her up upon a rise
And we'll build her out of brick.
Fred was the real impetuous one
And he said to brother Ike
"Get a length of fuse and dynamite
We'll demolish the old dyke."
Well, he set the charge and lit the fuse
You could see his day was made;
We lit a smoke, strolled down the slope
To sit there in the shade.
Then up the path like a flamin' jet
Raced Grandma through the trees,
Straight in through the dunny door
With her dress above her knees.
Then all at once, a mighty bang
Brother Ike fell off his chair
And there was Gran - still on the seat
Came flying through the air.
Well, we rolled around in laughter
Although I don't know if we ought,
But to think that our dear old Gran I
Was a flamin' astronaut.
Then Ike picked up his broken chair
But he didn't give a damn,
(Cause there was Gran, seat round her neck
In the middle of the dam.
"Go and pull your Grandma out"
I said to brother Jim;
"Shake it up, leave on your boots,
You know that she can't swim.
So in Jim went, dragged Grandma out,
She looked a proper wreck;
Hair all matted and dripping wet
With the dyke seat round her neck.
Gran smiled and spoke through toothless gums
We thought she'd start to rouse;
But she grinned and said "By crikey!
Lucky I didn't let that one off in the house!"
Love
Liz
"Yeah"! It's gotta go" said Granddad,
"The dunny's very old,
The weather boards are split and broke,
And it'd draughty, and it's cold."
So - we had a yarn among us boys
Thought - We'll give him a surprise;
Yeah! We'd build ourselves a new one -
Shift it further up the rise.
"We'll give it a northerly aspect" said Ike
"Let the sun stream through the door;
It'll be warm and bright for readin'
Grand-dad will be pleased - I'm sure.
"That's a good idea" said Billy
As he gave the dorg a kick;
"Yeah! We'll build her up upon a rise
And we'll build her out of brick.
Fred was the real impetuous one
And he said to brother Ike
"Get a length of fuse and dynamite
We'll demolish the old dyke."
Well, he set the charge and lit the fuse
You could see his day was made;
We lit a smoke, strolled down the slope
To sit there in the shade.
Then up the path like a flamin' jet
Raced Grandma through the trees,
Straight in through the dunny door
With her dress above her knees.
Then all at once, a mighty bang
Brother Ike fell off his chair
And there was Gran - still on the seat
Came flying through the air.
Well, we rolled around in laughter
Although I don't know if we ought,
But to think that our dear old Gran I
Was a flamin' astronaut.
Then Ike picked up his broken chair
But he didn't give a damn,
(Cause there was Gran, seat round her neck
In the middle of the dam.
"Go and pull your Grandma out"
I said to brother Jim;
"Shake it up, leave on your boots,
You know that she can't swim.
So in Jim went, dragged Grandma out,
She looked a proper wreck;
Hair all matted and dripping wet
With the dyke seat round her neck.
Gran smiled and spoke through toothless gums
We thought she'd start to rouse;
But she grinned and said "By crikey!
Lucky I didn't let that one off in the house!"
Love
Liz
A smile is a light in the window of your face that shows that your heart is at home
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Gabes-Apg
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Hi Liz.....
great to meet a fellow qlder, albeit i was born in NSW so i do support the blues in state of origin, I have lived in South East Qld for 14 years so the time is approaching that i should reconsider supporting the maroons
sorry to hear about situations in the family, hope things are ok soon
take care
Gabes
great to meet a fellow qlder, albeit i was born in NSW so i do support the blues in state of origin, I have lived in South East Qld for 14 years so the time is approaching that i should reconsider supporting the maroons
sorry to hear about situations in the family, hope things are ok soon
take care
Gabes
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
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Liz
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Hello Gabes,
It is great to have some fellow Aussies on the board. Not that i would wish our problems on to anyone, especialy a Queenslander, even an adopted one.
Great weather we are having, except for the floods etc. We need the rain so much but I think enough is enough. Hope that you have not been in the path of anything nasty.
Cheers
Liz
It is great to have some fellow Aussies on the board. Not that i would wish our problems on to anyone, especialy a Queenslander, even an adopted one.
Great weather we are having, except for the floods etc. We need the rain so much but I think enough is enough. Hope that you have not been in the path of anything nasty.
Cheers
Liz
A smile is a light in the window of your face that shows that your heart is at home