RE: [OT] Re: Referencing Nested Sequences

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Yeah Mate were good at rhyming slang,
Dogs Eye = Meat Pie
Dead Horse = Tomato Source
Hit the frog & toad = hit the road
Sky Rocket = Hip Pocket
Dog & Bone = Telephone
A Captain Cook = Take A Look
On my Pat Malone = I'm alone
Pigs ear = beer
Horse's hoof = Poof
Oxford scholar = Dollar
Bangers & mash = sausages & mashed potato
Pigs in a blanket = sausage sandwich

And there are many more

Catcha later

Tony Steward

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Moyer [mailto:DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net]
> Sent: Monday, 9 June 2003 3:21 PM
> To: EUforum
> Subject: [OT] Re: Referencing Nested Sequences
> 
> 
> Ricardo,
> 
> I saw some show visiting Australia which explained some Aussie terms,
> including "larrikin", but I can't for the life of me remember what it
> meant,
> all I thought I remembered is that it made sense once you heard it.
> Googled
> suggests "thug", historically, and perhaps "beloved iconoclast"(?) or
> "fond
> rabble-rouser" currently.   I do remember "perv" just meant "checking
out
> the ladies", and they sometimes use rhyming for things like telephone,
> etc,
> though I can't remember what.
> 
> Dan Moyer
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <rforno at tutopia.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:54 PM
> Subject: RE: Referencing Nested Sequences
> 
> 
> > Derek:
> > Are these words/expressions in a dictionary, or are they only aussie
> forms?
> > Regards.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> > To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: Referencing Nested Sequences
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <pblonner at optushome.com.au>
> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 6:55 PM
> > > Subject: Referencing Nested Sequences
> > >
> > > G'Day. I just clued in you're another vegemite. I'm from
Melbourne.
> Hope
> > you
> > > find what you need from the Euphoria language. This list is a
bonzer
> > source
> > > of info and there's only a couple of larrikins. Catch you later.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Derek
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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