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Pinkpiratekitty wrote:

You mean they don't say "put another shrimp on the barbee?

Haha.. no..

Kid Setzer wrote:

How come every American I talk to comments about the 'dingo ate my baby' thing.. WHY?!!

Kid.

Funny you mention this Kid....The only time I have heard this quote was from a Seinfeld episode and from what I remember is from a movie? I have never seen the movie nor know the title.

Amity wrote:

Kid Setzer wrote:

How come every American I talk to comments about the 'dingo ate my baby' thing.. WHY?!!

Kid.

Funny you mention this Kid....The only time I have heard this quote was from a Seinfeld episode and from what I remember is from a movie? I have never seen the movie nor know the title.

I think there is a movie where one of the characters say 'A dingo et my baby'.. but it is actually a true story.. I think in the late 80's a couple and their newborn were camping in the Northern Territory and as the story goes a dingo went into their tent and took their newborn baby. The mother is quoted as running to the nearest police station screaming 'A dingo ate my baby!'.. because of her emotionless character towards the media she was actually sentenced to life in jail for murder of her child before being released I think 10 or so years later after she was proved innocent.. it's not a very nice story.


Kid.

Amity wrote:

Funny you mention this Kid....The only time I have heard this quote was from a Seinfeld episode and from what I remember is from a movie? I have never seen the movie nor know the title.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance for the whole story. Meryl Streep played the mother in the movie, called "A Cry in the Dark" outside Australia.

Pinkpiratekitty wrote:

You mean they don't say "put another shrimp on the barbee?

They do say "barbie" here to mean barbeque, but I was surprised to learn they really don't say shrimp at all- they're all prawns.

Kid, it really is a different language in some respects. I mean really - "arvo" is "afternoon?" Only in Australia!

andi wrote:

Kid, it really is a different language in some respects. I mean really - "arvo" is "afternoon?" Only in Australia!

Haha, but to think that we spoke a whole different language! Oh yeah, we pretty much put 'o' on the end of everything - arvo, smoko, bevvo.. and 'a' on the end of nicknames - tezza, shezza, bazza, dazza, azza... we like zed's too


Kid.

Kid Setzer wrote:

andi wrote:

Kid, it really is a different language in some respects. I mean really - "arvo" is "afternoon?" Only in Australia!

Haha, but to think that we spoke a whole different language! Oh yeah, we pretty much put 'o' on the end of everything - arvo, smoko, bevvo.. and 'a' on the end of nicknames - tezza, shezza, bazza, dazza, azza... we like zed's too


Kid.

and what's the deal with refering to flip flops as thongs !!?????

Aristocat wrote:

and what's the deal with refering to flip flops as thongs !!?????

Haha that's just what we call them We never call them flip flops, they are always thongs.. The 'thongs' that you are thinking about we call them G-Bangers


Kid.

I grew up calling them thongs or zories.