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| (...) What's with you Aussies and this G'Day thing now? Some inside joke I need ta know about? :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Peter White wrote in message ... (...) Nothing to do with the sales rep, this is an older style Toy store, Toyworlds run their own shows, Camden is really a rural area next to a satellite suburb of Sydney, Campbelltown, where Big W's abound in (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: Newbie with questions
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| (...) It's a compression of the greeting good day. A greeting that has become a bit cliched (eg. Paul Hogan), but still genuine in most cases. My NLSO thinks that no-one says it, she should read Lugnet, I guess. pete.w (25 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| I guess you haven't seen the crocodile dundee movies...G'day is the strine [Australian dialect of english, as opposed to the language in the US which is not english <G,D&R>] form of welcome. Similarly, ooroo [I think that's the correct spelling] is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: Newbie with questions
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| (...) Well, I knew that much :-) (...) OK, well, I thought there's some reason why you're compressing it (e.g. joking 'bout a TV anchor or something.) Never mind... :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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