[SOC] Brit Humour
Ian C. Purdie
[email protected]
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:41:46 +1100
Lloyd Lachow wrote:
> --- "Ian C. Purdie" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Always advisable for newcomers to give the word a
> > wide swerve for at least five
> > years.
>
> ...so, Ian, your recommendation to the newly arrived
> visitor to Oz would be to not walk into a bar in an
> out-of-the-way spot and call out cheerfully, "how are
> all you Aussie bastards all doing today, mates? Eh?"
No, definitely not. A smack in the mouth would be a certainty.
Course, if you were a long lost friend returning, that would not only be
socially acceptable but expected and interpreted as the warmest of greetings.
I'm back in charge of the construction gang, later...
72/73's
Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33�14', E151�34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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