[BITList] Donating Blood In Scotland

[John Feltham]

G’day  Hugh,

On 9 Dec 2015, at 11:50 PM, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

<< To the taxi driver he sad, "Muggy today, isn't it?" Said the driver, without turning round, "If you don't like our weather, why don't you eff off back where you came from."  George felt strangely comforted by a true Aussie welcome. >>

That taxi driver could well have been a “New Australian” - a POM.

It takes at least two years for a “New Australian” to stop using the phrase, “Back home we..…[do this or that]”

> Not the full quid (we say shilling)."

This has many equivalents in Australia.

A sandwich short of a picnic.

Something missing in the top paddock. 

A variation of this one is…

A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock…..

Wait, There’s more!

See…

http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/14071.htm <http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/14071.htm>


ooroo

 
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