From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 00:20:39 MDT
At 03:59 PM 25/08/00 +1000, Emlyn wrote:
>smokers might know that a "fag" is a cigarette in Oz.
We were always warned that it was de trop to be seen in school uniform with
a fag in one's mouth.
Which isn't as strange, perhaps, as hearing some red-faced bigot shouting
(and I have witnessed this, I swear to dog) that he has nothing against
hoe-moe-sexuals as such, he just doesn't want them shoving it down his throat!
Damien
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