Tony D,

Americans and Australians have a lot in common mate. One thing is L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E.

The difference is that Americans speak American and we Oz's speak Australian, both derived from basic English.

I recently had to act as interpreter for a couple of U.S. Marines who were here for the joint excercise Talisman Sabre 2 and found it dificult to understand what we Oz's were talking about.

Rick.

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Reminds me of a comment made by a technician at our Submarine Factory here in Adelaide: -

"there is some $^!# in the hydraulic lines"

Received by the American suppliers as: -

"they've mixed up the hydraulic lines with the sewerage lines"

Rick

I bet you went to the common ground to break the language barrier....

BEER and GIRLS! As and lifelong expert on both, I'm sure those poor Marines got quite an education from you-and the lot of you got seriously in the wizz and sprung after blowin in the bag!

I bet those guys are still stonkered!

How long did you leave them out in beyond the black stump waiting for a Bunyip?

We Southern Sepos have a similar hunt we take tourists on, the hunt for the Grits tree. Funny as hell if you are the dunny rat dropping off!

it is kind of aggrivating, but, Nothing a coldie can't cure.

Thanks for looking after our Marines!

WIll

Reminds me of a comment made by a technician at our Submarine Factory here in Adelaide: -

"there is some $^!# in the hydraulic lines"

Received by the American suppliers as: -

"they've mixed up the hydraulic lines with the sewerage lines"

Now, I don't know one sepo(and I am over here with most of them)that wouldn't have known exactly what that technician ment! I think that one's purely urban legend Aussie style-or the Supplier was secretly poking fun at the figjam that said it!ROFLROFL

Will

Hey there Will,

We often put out the welcome mat when there's a joint American/Oz excercise. Not just Marines either, we're not prejudiced mate, why, ... we were even nice to a couple of Army blokes once !!!!.

I ALWAYS warn against going too heavily on our local brews mate. You Yanks can't handle the higher octane fuel we have down here; .. you turn out to be bloody two pot screamers.ROFLROFL

I think I told you the story about the Koala Bears didn't I ?????????????????

Rick.

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wait a second! do really guys in Aust. call a CHICKEN CHOOK??

come on! ok what, what about the cow?? has the same name over there?

by the way, here is a nice name for the CHICKEN over here in our Island, we call a chicken "DEYAYEH" and a Hen "DEECH" godd eh?

Yup, a chicken is a chook, generic term, no gender differentiation.

That is also why a Mazda rotary is often referred to as a "chook cooker".

Rotary, rotisserie, chicken rotisserie = chook cookerLOLLOLLOL

We also have a national TV show called "Spics and Specs".

For some obscure reason, a visiting American film/TV personality declined to be a guest on the show:surprised:surprised

Was it something we said:finger:

And, the piece de resistance, we have a very popular brand of matured cheese called, wait for it....COON:tapemouth

so let's see if I get this equation right

chICKen=chOOK

the a sICK man=sOOK man

and as pink floyd band say "another brICK of the wall" we get another brOOK of the wall!

nice!

what else?? hmm .. if someone does a trICK then he can do a trOOK on the other half of the earthROFL

kidding with you guys, don't give me that look:nervous:

cheers;)

Hey there Will,

We often put out the welcome mat when there's a joint American/Oz excercise. Not just Marines either, we're not prejudiced mate, why, ... we were even nice to a couple of Army blokes once !!!!.

I ALWAYS warn against going too heavily on our local brews mate. You Yanks can't handle the higher octane fuel we have down here; .. you turn out to be bloody two pot screamers.ROFLROFL

I think I told you the story about the Koala Bears didn't I ?????????????????

Rick.

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I have a weekend warrior buddy who is a Corpsman in the Navy, he is good to all service men until the Army/Navy football game, then he is all about telling the army guys "I'm a squid, eat me!"

Rick might that be the wild drop bear you mentioned (as opposed to the cute and cuddly domesticated variety) to some Yanks while on exercize?

Will

Yair Will,

That's the one mate.

When it comes to bullpoop artists and taking the wizz out of someone, we Oz's are unbeatable. We're also pretty good at telling tall stories and stretching the truth, second only to native born Texans.

Rick.

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Young Bill, from the backwoods of Arkansas, his dog and a pig were the only survivors of a terrible shipwreck, and found themselves stranded on a desert island.

A few slow weeks passed by.

Every evening they'd lay out on the beach and watch the stars.

One night young Bill was feeling a little amorous and the pig started to look like not such a bad prospect after all. So he rolled toward the pig and put his arm around it. The dog was quite jealous about it and growled until Bill took his arm away.

A few weeks passed by, and lo and behold, there was another shipwreck. The only survivor was a beautiful young woman with a perfect hourglass figure.

Luckily, she was uninjured.

She got along well with the others and went to the beach with them every evening. One night, young Bill began getting "those" ideas again, so he leaned across to the girl and said, "Umm, ... would you mind taking the dog for a walk?".

Rick.

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Leave it to Your Bill! I told you he needed a higher edjumacashun!

Maybe we could spring for a ticky for him to visit and train with you for a while-I recon that'd cure what ails him! You'd be right, the bloody ocker would never again let a growling dog get in the way of his having a cros species naughty at night on the beach:stupid:-reminds me of a picture suposably of you and a sheep on a motorbike:finger:... Obviously Nobody parties like AustraliansROFL!

Now before you lot get to thinking this thread has gone and strayed far from it origin, let me remind you that Bill and his chook go together like a hand and a glove-I won't even get into the whole pieces parts thing!

Rick...How did you know I was born in Texas?

Will