Legion Wrote:HOLY CRAP! MAGGERS! You live! Great to hear you're doing well. Several of the Forums Old Heads such as yourself have been missing for quite some time. Good to see you!
BTW Which book was this you speak of?
KRW Wrote:Harbingers.Ahh, some things never change. We can always count on Ken to know the answer to just about any RJ question. :thumbsup:
Maggers Wrote:Ahh, some things never change. We can always count on Ken to know the answer to just about any RJ question. :thumbsup:Hell, I've forgotten more than most of these whippersnappers will ever know!
Maggers Wrote:Hey, Ken, thanks! I see so many new names here I figured no one would have noticed that I'd not been around. Thanks for missing me.
I've been having a great time with my life, and spending as much time as I could in Australia.
Hope to be back here a little more frequently.
Scott Miller Wrote:So what's your favorite down-underism?Now THAT would be interesting.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Now THAT would be interesting.
They have so many fascinating slang terms.
I got a kick out of hearing the terms they created in regard to Kangaroo's. For example, a group of 'Roo's isn't a herd, or a gaggle, or a flock, a pod, or anything like that -- a "group" of Kangaroo's is called a Mob, and the dominant male is called The Old Man.
Down to earth, and very descriptive.
Ken V.
Maggers Wrote:"I mightn't have much in my pocket, but I wouldn't be dead for quids!!"In the movie Crocodile Dundee that was changed to, "I wouldn't be dead for dollars."
I found that phrase on a tombstone in little Blackheath, NSW. Sweet, eh wot?
Maggers Wrote:They had such interesting headstones in that quaint, small town cemetery in Blackheath, NSW.Eighty five years old . . . that ship took a long time going down.
Maggers Wrote:Here's another, typically Australian headstone. They say it as they see it, and damn respectability!A beer and a smoke aside, there's nothing disrespectful about being called "an honest bloke."