From: Emlyn O'Regan (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 23:59:36 MDT
FWP wrote:
No no Damien. It's not "rooting with beer" we are talking about here. It
is ROOT beer. You guys in Oz are a strange lot, eh? Mind you if I lived in
a country with the most deadly spiders, snakes, jellyfish and octipi on
the planet (to say nothing of the "cane toad") I'd probably do a LOT with
beer!
Cheers-FWP
("On The Beach" at Vancouver Ventre)
We do have less problems with kinetic lead poisoning, however. And we don't
have Barney the dinosaur.
I've always thought the idea of "rooting for your team" was pretty
interesting. I don't know why we don't have root beer; it would sell in
bulk.
There's a whole field of opportunity with mixed up slang, of course. For
instance, smokers might know that a "fag" is a cigarette in Oz. However,
this doesn't mean you should ask someone here if you can "bum a fag"; it
means something different to what you think it means.
Emlyn
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