Hey youse lot !

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:25 pm

In my best Aussie slang ....

Its Fri-dee here mates n weeze r knockin off work early. Now for youse mob in the US of A its still thurz-dee nite so weeze ahead o youse by a country mile

Now wot I wanted ta say was I hope youse orl av a grate Chrismas and keep yer flamin masks on while youse are countin sheep. Don't go rippen em off or turnin off yer machine too early - youse'l pay for it lateta (in the day that is).

Down ere we have a real novel Santa - the buggar cums visitin with a slay pulled by 12 big red roos. Nun o this raindeer malarkey. 12 Boomers mate - big uns! - I tell ya.

So youse av a real good break & look afta yerselves & yer families - they are real precious.

Cheers from down under.

DSM

(I really don't talk like that - I promise )

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:39 pm

Same to you, Doug.

Happy holidays.

Den

GoofyUT · Post by **GoofyUT** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:56 pm

Its all good, mate! No worries!

I hope that u and ur BOYZ have a ONEderful HOLLY-day bro!!

Chuck

Bones · Post by **Bones** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:17 pm

Right back at ya Doug!

Brian

Vader · Post by **Vader** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:55 pm

Back at ya'll, and Merry Christmas to you, too.

jacko · Post by **jacko** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:56 pm

G'Day Doug
We don't talk like that do we mate
Where abouts it OZ are ya .Im in WestGippsland near Warragul
Catch ya Jacko

dsm wrote:In my best Aussie slang ....

Its Fri-dee here mates n weeze r knockin off work early. Now for youse mob in the US of A its still thurz-dee nite so weeze ahead o youse by a country mile

Now wot I wanted ta say was I hope youse orl av a grate Chrismas and keep yer flamin masks on while youse are countin sheep. Don't go rippen em off or turnin off yer machine too early - youse'l pay for it lateta (in the day that is).

Down ere we have a real novel Santa - the buggar cums visitin with a slay pulled by 12 big red roos. Nun o this raindeer malarkey. 12 Boomers mate - big uns! - I tell ya.

So youse av a real good break & look afta yerselves & yer families - they are real precious.

Cheers from down under.

DSM

(I really don't talk like that - I promise )

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:03 pm

dsm wrote:Down ere we have a real novel Santa - the buggar cums visitin with a slay pulled by 12 big red roos. Nun o this raindeer malarkey. 12 Boomers mate - big uns! - I tell ya.

I enjoyed that immensely! Have a great Aussie Christmas, mate!

krousseau · Post by **krousseau** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:19 pm

That puts a new slant on "Twas the Night Before Christmas"! Do they have names??The kids will love it. You have a good holiday too.

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:39 am

jacko wrote:G'Day Doug
We don't talk like that do we mate
Where abouts it OZ are ya .Im in WestGippsland near Warragul
Catch ya Jacko

dsm wrote:In my best Aussie slang ....

Its Fri-dee here mates n weeze r knockin off work early. Now for youse mob in the US of A its still thurz-dee nite so weeze ahead o youse by a country mile

Now wot I wanted ta say was I hope youse orl av a grate Chrismas and keep yer flamin masks on while youse are countin sheep. Don't go rippen em off or turnin off yer machine too early - youse'l pay for it lateta (in the day that is).

Down ere we have a real novel Santa - the buggar cums visitin with a slay pulled by 12 big red roos. Nun o this raindeer malarkey. 12 Boomers mate - big uns! - I tell ya.

So youse av a real good break & look afta yerselves & yer families - they are real precious.

Cheers from down under.

DSM

(I really don't talk like that - I promise )

Jacko - howya goin mate !

I live in the big smoke - the one a few undred miles east o the black stump. So you r down south eh ?

Neva made it ta Gippsland meself - but did some time in the Blue Orchids based in Laverton. Also did a spell before that in the bush at Wagga Wagga when Forrest Hill was still commisioned & rookies were still done there (before they shifted em to Edinburgh SA).

Theres a few of us Oz lads here at cpaptalk - the others are I think also from sinney.

Cheers mate

DSM

SelfSeeker · Post by **SelfSeeker** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:10 am

All the best DSM.

cflame1 · Post by **cflame1** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:31 am

Merry Christmas DSM

telly · Post by **telly** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:57 am

And throw a coupla shrimps on the BARBY wouldja?

YOKOSO!

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:06 pm

Feeling a bit guilty about using so much Aussie slang so here are some explanations ...

1) Boomers - male kangaroos (females are also called 'flyers' or 'jills', babys are 'joeys'). Also the word 'mob' is used to describe a group of Kangaroos or Sheep, or Aussies (or in reality, any group of people i.e. 'a mob of yahoos' is a group of boistrous young people ).

a 'Big Red' refers to the largest Kangaroo type of the species. These can get as tall as 6ft 7in and are regarded as 'roos to keep away from. They can be tough & dangerous. Most of the domesticated roos are the Eastern Gray variety. These are a bit smaller and more docile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo

2) Use of the word Youse - a strange Australian pluralization of you - I guess not disimilar to y'all - my Grandma used to use the word all the time, many folk still do but it is considered bad English

I have always regarded this word as of Irish origin or influence (so many Fennians & other Irish criminals were shipped to Australia along with the typical London Cockney criminals). Here is a link that seems to endorse this view, also, it seems the word is used in the US as well.

(see approx 16 paras down starting ... "Raymond Hickey asks ..." )
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/do ... 20lass.htm

3) 'The big smoke' means a big city. It is claimed it originally referred to london (see link below) - certainly in Australia it was a favorite description on cities used by Aboriginies and still widely understood & used today.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new ... summary18/

4) Blue Orchids - a slang term for the Air Force. I think this applies to UK, Aust and USA as there seem to be quite a few refs to Air Force & Blue Orchids. The term was pretty well understood in the years after WW2.

(This was one of the few direct refs I could find - see about 15 paras down)
http://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2003/nelson.asp

5) The Black Stump. This was supposed to be a real place about 3 to 4 hundred miles west of Sydney NSW. In the Wikipedia article below, the theory we in NSW tend to subscribe to is the ref to the town called Coolah NSW. The other theories don't really work for us in NSW but some other Aussies may dispute this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stump

So the Big Smoke east of the Black Stump - has to be the city of Sydney (MisPron Sinney by many ) by simple logical deduction

Wagga Wagga is a country town where the Air Force used to have a base called Forest Hill. When I joined, recruit training 'rookies' was done there before they moved the RTU (Recruit Training Unit) to an Air Force base in South Australia called Edinburgh.

Laverton is a suburb of the city of Melbourne & had an Air Force Base. When I was there we had a USAF unit stationed there called the 57th Weather Recon Unit (they flew U2s on spying missions over Asia )

Jacko's East Gippsland is a part of the state of Victoria of which Melbourne is the capital.

So having translated the interaction, I hope it makes more sense.

& Yes youse all, I'll thro an extra shrimp on the barbie at Christmas, one for each of yers and will happily scoff em down on your behalf with a torrent of foamin Fosters as lubrication

DSM

kavanaugh1950 · Post by **kavanaugh1950** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:17 pm

merry christmas dsm. do you leave out a cold beer and chips for santa over there like we leave milk and cookies? bye the way,I love kangaroos!!! pat

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:39 am

Thanks for filling in a few blanks on your slang.

I have always known youse blokes talk funny, but have assumed it was due to living your entire lives upside down.
I also believe that many health issues you folks have is due to always being upside down.

Come up to the upside and get a breath of fresh air.

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