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That's sounds about right.

My motto is; me know nuffin.

Theroy; more blokes disappear for knowing too much rather than not knowing enough.

& I'm sticking to it.LOL.

JC.



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Goodonya



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You're not wrong!

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I make out I know nothing, then I don't get asked to do anything :)

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I really know to need where "struth" came from.  "Struth" it's cold.  "Struth" you look crook!



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I always thought it was an abbreviation of "God's truth."

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I thought Strewth mean,t "Thats the truth.To curse someone the Aussie way you say" May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down!"A Diamantina ****tail consists of the contents of an emu egg, a pint of metho, and a gum leaf,mixed together in a 2 quart billy tin.-you only ever drink one..............Bill



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That's what I reckon too Sheba - either God's truth - or that's the truth.

How about - "where ya going?"
"down the frog and toad"
"waffor?'
"see a man about a dog"
"no wuckers!"

Now, that's fair dinkum, doncha reckon??

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My dad used all that Aussie terminology - strewth, bloody bottler, beaut, bonza, hum dinger, shoot through (like a Bondi tram). You rarely hear any of it nowadays. Rhyming slang is disappearing from the vernacular as well.

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Yeah, I was out the back the other day talkin to a china plate who was moaning about his tommy tut being a bit sore when a big joe blake went past.  Well, we both reached for the wire but was to late.  The bleeder went through the fence.  I turned to me china plate and said stone the crows, that was a biggun.  As we both as dry as dead dingoes dongers, we into the shed and got a beer.

No wonder a lot of foreigners have trouble with the English Language!



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see carl baron live, hes a classic he is my favourite comedy

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glassies wrote:

see carl baron live, hes a classic he is my favourite comedy

 Gday...

I agree wholeheartedly glassies .... and as they say, he looks like Paul Kelly's love child

Cheers - John



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GaryKelly wrote:

........Rhyming slang is disappearing from the vernacular as well.

 Rhyming slang is very working class English. The TV series "Minder" had a lot of rhyming slang, often abbreviated to make it even more obscure, eg when "Arfur" Daley used to get "Brahms'n" (short for Brahms and Liszt)



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Yeah my old man used to talk in C ockney rhyming slang a lot. Dad: Hey nip up the apples and pairs and grab me bag of fruit, I'm going up the rubbity for a couple of King Lears. Mum: well don't go getting all Brahms and taking a Jimmy Riddle on the doorstep again.

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