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Oi Barry! Leave the money on the fridge, would ya?

18 Nov 05:55am

Filed under: Australia, Barack Obama, Ocker, Slang

Dear Mr Obama,

Thanks heaps for your beaut speech to Parliament this week, in which you used heaps of Australian idioms and that. It was beaut.

Our prime minister looked at you like she dead set wanted to pash you, and our Opposition leader said something about being a fellow English speaker, which is a bloody riot, because seriously mate, have you heard us?

Anyway, as you’ll see if you go to any twenty-firsts or footy dinners while you’re here, we tend to do this right-of-reply dealio whenever anyone dings on a glass and makes a speech, so I thought I’d respond and stuff. Sweet as?

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Yolanda says:

12:16pm | 10/02/12

How about the way we Southern Utah folks speak. Creek is CrickHorse is HarseWash is WarshCorral is CorrelCorn is CarnSt. George is St. Garge Add to that the way the cowobys here talk and you have a real mess but not any worse than how they talk in Texas or… Read more »
Geoff says:

08:41am | 19/11/11

That was a painful read, but I persevered and made it to the end, just in case it had a good punch-line. It didn’t. I gather you don’t speak much “strine” or hang out with “ordinary” Australians much. Read more »

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