Polymorph wrote:
To: Mark McDougall Mark McDougall wrote:CrikeyYou should have used "strewth". ;-)BTW we Aussies don't actually use these words when speaking to one-another, only tourists! ;)Regards,Too right cobber! Stone the crows, but you're right! Lets throw another shrimp on the barbie! ;-)This is added proof of Mark's statement - we have prawns in Oz not shrimp, yet the rest of the world think we throw shrimp on the barbie on a regular basis... we can thank Mr Hogan for that one. :-)
The new film "District 9" may re-introduce many to "prawn"--but as an alien-pejorative. ;-) -michael NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."