JA2340

No confusion! You use the words that get you what you want in the place wherever you are. So, in Aus, you want crisps, you ask for chippies. You want hot, fried potato strips, you ask for chips (or fries at Maccas). You want potato slices fried and hot ask for scallops, you want potato slices fried and cold, ask for chippies ... Not a biggie, jusy ask a local what to ask for to get what you want. Bloody Poms tyhink they invented the language!

Absolutely. Can almost break them too. No need to see orchestra in background all the time. (WTF?!) If there's an orchestra playing, there's a need for them to be in context! If the action is taking place on the back of a flatbed truck, on the highway, an orchestra needs to be part of the radio (and shown to be so) rather than just "appearing" out of nowhere! Reference is to a Elvis Presley movie - NFI what the name was, too many years ago (and too many ladies) ago!

mutton chops

^^ THIS ^^ * eleventy!

is that a grey market?

sunburn

Nah ... not "poor bastard" - he's a legend! Highest score ever in the history of the game by a #11 batsman ain't "poor"!

But, isn't that what you are there for?? What else do you guys do all day, anyway ... :<runs and hides>

Wal-Mart

Just watching Starc (7th wicket to fall) out for a duckkky! 7 fer - and only 114 runs on the board. and just 32.3 overs! Pharcanell!

and fathers

And the rest of the side out for not very many - then Oz batsment got the collywobbles too. FOURTEEN wickets on day 1!! Blimmin' 'eck! Someone should tell these guys that it is a 5 day test, not a Twenty20 match!

... a book?

My French teacher had lived in France (several decades earlier) and had a thing about the "reader" we were expected to know about. (It was "Le Cheval sans Tete" and I still cannot care about the bloody horse!) She would write a few paragraphs from the book on the board, we'd read the lot through. Then she'd erase random words and we'd have to read the lot again, filling in the blanks as we went. continue until there are but a few words left and we were reading the paragraphs from memory. I had a problem, as I could not understand how that was going to help me with French, and the final exam

Kindling?

Donate them to the local library, then borrow them back whenever you need - they should have the book storing thing fairly right by now!

Flake is the Aus fish shop name for shark.

JA....That's some pretty fancy lingo you speaking there.. !! Sounds like some of that there Frenchy stuff they speak back east in Que..bec ,, ya know.. Oui! Thought y'all might recognise it!

She snore through or what??

Flake ... no bones!

zit

Chris, On parle anglais, avec quelque UK bias. Hien!

goose!

period

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