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15-05-2014, 10:27 AM | #1 | ||
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I was thinking about Dad today (he's been dead for 23 years). He was born in the late 20s so I am a baby boomer myself. Anyway, Dad was one of those old Aussies who used the great Aussie vernacular to great effect.
So, growing up I used to always hear how things stood out like a shag on a rock. As I got to my early teens I learnt that a shag was a Euphemism for making love aka the horizontal Rhumba. Conclusion; anyone willing to make love out in the open on a rock is, yes , definitely obvious. Imagine my surprise when in my late 20s, watching a nature show when they described how this swimming bird (Shag) who does not have waterproof feathers has to stand on a rock with its wings out to dry; i.e., like a shag on a rock. Duh. Anyone else got some pearls of wisdom from their elders? Cheers Vincenzo
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15-05-2014, 01:44 PM | #2 | ||
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I don't know about 'Pearls of Wisdom' but being originally a Pom I have always been wondering about the saying " Drier than a Dead Dingo's Donger"
Wondering as in, who was the first to coin the phrase and how did they find out ?
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It was a common expression in pubs when the service was a little slow at the refill. Cheers Vincenzo
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15-05-2014, 02:45 PM | #4 | ||
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The pub was always the waterhole.
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15-05-2014, 06:47 PM | #5 | ||
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My Gran's favourite thing to say when she was annoyed by "x,y,z and maybe a,b &c" was "they can shove it where the monkey shoves its nuts."
Nobody in the family is really 100% sure what she ever meant by that, either the monkneys she knew had very, shall we say, peculiar, mating/food storage habits; or she meant something completely different the entire time.
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15-05-2014, 07:53 PM | #7 | ||
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15-05-2014, 08:01 PM | #8 | ||
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There was a thread on here a few years ago with Aussie slang but I have heard two great ones recently..
That bloke is two stamps short of full postage Just coz I have a face like a sewing machine, doesn't mean I am a singer! Cheers Col
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15-05-2014, 08:20 PM | #9 | ||
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Perhaps it refers to the small monkey who gathers nuts from the ground like a squirrel and shoves them in his mouth till he climbs the tree again and can eat them in peace. Or perhaps he doesn't like the idea of storing them inn his "prison purse" before he eats them due to the after taste.
Cheers Vincenzo
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15-05-2014, 08:32 PM | #10 | ||
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As a kid I can remember wishing for whatever to mum..
You know.. "Mum, I wish I could go out with my mates" or "Mum, I wish I could have those addidas runners" Her response was always... "Wish in one hand, spit in the other and see which fills first" Another was "Mum, that' not fair!" Her reply was.. "A black fellas face never is" (Imagine using that today?)
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15-05-2014, 08:32 PM | #11 | ||
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One I use myself (and I'm only 31), is "He's the full 6-pack, just missing the plastic bit that holds it all together"...
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15-05-2014, 09:03 PM | #12 | ||
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There are some good ones here. Bit hard to remember any but a couple similar sayings come to mind.
Mum used to say don't watch too much tv or you'll get square eyes. Eat your crusts they will make your hair curly. There was one she used to say if i asked for money she would reply with something about a begger, maybe one of you would know that one. Dad used to say things like its as useless as tits on a bull. One another bloke used to say was! Knowing my luck, if i was raining fannies, i'd get hit by a poofters **** hole. |
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15-05-2014, 09:35 PM | #13 | ||
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If you want to hear some pearls of wisdom, you can not beat Nick " Honey Badger" Cummins.
Here are his best interview moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1CmX0dSXg I almost went Head over biscuit listening to it Cheers Col
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16-05-2014, 10:11 AM | #17 | ||
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As sure as the cows come home in the morning. (and they do you know but some city people would not have clue what you are on about )
Don't you worry about that ! ( your out of you depth or it does not concern you.) A lot of things QLD Premier Sir Joh said, many city people did not have a clue what he was saying but it was true, if you knew what it ment infact he nailed it spot on as a matter of fact. he talked about stradling both sides of a barbed wire fence once, refering to his position on the political left and right wing, he said he had been told by others it was not very comfotable. now he had never tryed it you see, as he was not that foolish to even try it. Joh was a very smart man but an old cow cockie and they had there sayings in them days but nowadays our young people say a lot of stupid things that have no relation to what the original word ment at all. Sweet Too easy Gay Are you winning. Just to name a few crass sayings or words that have got nothing to do with reality and it come from bogans or dimwits that are just blase with what they say. yes that's what the older people think of them words that i know, it's true but they put up with it, but truly hate it. Last edited by castellan; 16-05-2014 at 10:22 AM. |
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16-05-2014, 08:22 PM | #18 | ||
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My old man used to say that certain govt public servants' service was about
"as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike" |
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17-05-2014, 12:12 AM | #19 | ||
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Fits like a finger in a bum hole?
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21-05-2014, 07:15 PM | #21 | ||
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I use these quite often but don't see the correlation:
Crook as a dog (sickness) - rarely have I seen a sick dog to pass comment on. Black as a dogs guts outside (storm clouds, darkness) - never seen a dogs guts, I doubt they're black. Cheers!
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21-05-2014, 09:25 PM | #22 | ||
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I have a few that I use, most have some sort of profanity though...
Greasier than a butchers c**k. Flat out like a lizard drinking. Couldn't drive a greasy nail up a rats bum. Blind as a welders dog. Windy enough to blow a dog off a chain, or windy enough to blow a b#tch off heat. Colder than a witches tit. Hungry enough to eat the crotch out of a low flying duck. (for someone with crooked and protruding teeth) His teeth are so bad he could eat a pie through a tennis racket. Lower than a snakes guts. Those are just a few off the top of my head. |
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22-05-2014, 01:03 PM | #25 | ||
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I used to get threatened by my primary school principal that he would "rip yer arms of shove 'em in yer ears and ride ya round like a motorbike"
Don't why such violence was directed at such young children... haha. Can't believe the old classic "stands out like dog's balls" hasn't made an appearance. I used to know a heap but can't think of any at the moment. I'll be sure to list them if I remember. |
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22-05-2014, 02:59 PM | #27 | |||
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Who knows where this stuff originated - I'd like to think it's Aussie euphemisms though, we have such a colourful language. I always liked the cockney rhyming slang: Dog and bone = phone, Cheers and kisses = Mrs etc. Cheers!
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22-05-2014, 04:09 PM | #28 | ||
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I thought the ashtray on a motorbike was used by DJ?
He also had "The only thing you get by looking over your shoulder is a sore neck' Not so much pearls of wisdom but sayings I grew up with - Thick as two short planks half soaked Not the full quid Running around like a blue arsed fly A chip of the ole block Mutton dressed as lamb Children should be seen and not heard and coming from an Irish background, pleny of drinking related sayings - On the razzle On the lash Going for a gargle he was well lashed/banjaxed, poleaxed, battered Hair of the dog Broken the seal Many more too but they are crude |
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22-05-2014, 05:06 PM | #29 | ||
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Ummm......isn't it the other way around?
A stubbie short of a six pack.
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