So you think we talk funny ?

[Fatgodzilla]

We know you Yanks talk funny. But can you talk Australian ?

If you can answer all these questions, what country would let you be a citizen ?
1. Do you understand the meaning, but are unable to explain the origin of, the term "died in the arse"?
2. What is a bloody little beauty??
3. Are these terms related: chuck a sickie; chuck a spaz; chuck a U-ey?
4. Explain the following passage: "In the arvo last Chrissy the relos rocked up for a barbie, some bevvies and a few snags. After a bit of a Bex and a lie down we opened the pressies, scoffed all the chockies, bickies and lollies. Then we drained a few tinnies and Mum did her block after Dad and Steve had a barney and a bit of biffo."
5. Macca, Chooka and Wanga are driving to Surfers in their Torana. If they are travelling at 100 km/h while listening to Barnsey, Farnsey and Acca Dacca, how many slabs will each person on average consume between flashing a brown eye and having a slash?
6. Complete the following sentences:
a) Fair suck of the ……………..
‘b) Fair ………….. (six letter word)
c) Fair crack of the ………………..
7. I've had a gutful and I can't be fagged. Discuss
8. Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a wedgie?
9. Do you have a friend or relative who has a car in their front yard "up on blocks"? Is his name Bruce and does he have a missus called Cheryl?
10. Does your family regularly eat a dish involving mincemeat, cabbage, curry powder and a packet of chicken noodle soup called either chow mein, chop suey or kai see ming?
11. What are the ingredients in a rissole?
12. Demonstrate the correct procedure for eating a Tim Tam.
13. Do you have an Aunty Irene who smokes 30 cigarettes a day and sounds like a bloke?
14. In any two-hour period have you ever eaten three-bean salad, a chop and two serves of pav washed down with someone else's beer that has been flogged from a bath full of ice?
15. When you go to a byo-meat barbie can you eat other people's meat or are you only allowed to eat your own?
16. What purple root vegetable beginning with the letter "b" is required by law to be included in a hamburger with the lot?
17. Do you own or have you ever owned a Victa, a pair of thongs, an Esky or Ugg boots?
18. What does “pranged the car will doing a u-ey” mean
19. Who would you like to crack on to?
20. Who is the most Australian: Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, John "True Blue" Williamson, Kylie Minogue or Warnie?
21. Is there someone you are only mates with because they own a trailer or have a pool?
22. What does " sinkin ' piss at a mate’s joint and gotten para " mean?

 

[Hell Brew]

That is all absolute gibberish. ( I am sure they think ya' ll sound dumb as hell)

 

[Vermicous]

I've been to Sydney and Queensland and only understood one out of five.

I have an Aussie to English dictionary around here somewhere and I will translate.

 

[Fatgodzilla]

It's fairly simple. Which one's you having trouble with ??

 

[Vermicous]

1. FUBAR'd
2. Kickass wheels
3. Generic terms for kicking ass
4. We decided to celebrate christmas in warm weather and mum had to settle the drunks.
5. An attempt to link math and pissing.
6. a.?
b.?
c.?
7. I can take it all with boasting.
8. Very English custom, serves them right for losing the ashes.
9. Also English custom, always thought it was the hillbillies though.
10. With few exceptions, Aussie cuisine is much to be desired.
11. Something unmentionable, probably Wallaroos.
12. Much like an Oreo.
13. English custom again.
14. ?
15. Usually your own or what was purchased., but I usually went to the BYOB.
16. An Aussie burger is a thing of wonder; beets, eggs, pineapple, can't remember the rest.
17. Advisory for the american's "YOU CAN'T FIND SWIMTRUNKS BESIDES SPEEDOS IN AUSSIE LAND." Hide your junk or swim, it's a simple option. It has little to do with number 17, but is very important.
18. Crashing the car? not sure why.
19. Much enthusiasm, as if on Crack.
20. Wilson.
21. Yes
22. Drinking too much Carlsberg and talking.

 

[PeteOz77]

Too Easy mate

Bazza and Shazza reckon she's a pearler!

 

[Fatgodzilla]

Impressive. Completely wrong on most accounts, but a brilliant effort.

1. Correct
2. You little, bloody beauty, or bloody little beauty - same thing, means a great result. Can be usesd in a number of contexts, but means the outcome suits your particular wants.
3. Chucking a sickie - taking a day of work (sick leave) when you aren't sick
Chucking a spaz - you become momentarily "mad" or enraged. (acting like a spastic person - cruel but ...)
Chuck a U-ey - performing a U turn in a car (or life in general)
4.Close enough (it was bloody hot just about everywhere in Australia this year)
5. Good enough. There is no real answer. You got the drift of it.
6. fair suck of the sauce bottle (give me a fair go)
fair dinkum (the truth)
fair crack of the whip (the same as (a) - sort of.
7. I've had a gutful (enough) and I can't be fagged (take it up the arse) - fighting words.
8. That's okay. I like a man who knows his cricket.
9. Our hillbillys live in the suburbs. Often called ferals.
10. With few exceptions, the average aussie cuisine leaves a lot to be desired. Apart from chico rolls and vegemite on toast of course.
11. Rissoles - minced meat, tomato sauce / egg for binding and maybe some breadcrumbs. We like our wallaroos cassaroled.
12. What's an Oreo ??? Tim Tams best eaten by biting off each end and sucking hot chocolate through it like a straw.
13. Or Americans called Dolores.
14. You don't want to go there. Pav (pavlova) - stealing someone else beer - national pastime.
15. Always take a sausage and eat a steak. Another australian pastime.
16. Beetroot (you can beat an egg but can't beat a root !!). Until McDonalds makes a hamburger with the lot, won't go there. Meat, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, fried onions, cheese, egg (compulsory it not set so yolk runs down your face) bacon. Australia's gift to world cuisine along with the chico roll and vegemite.
17. Real men swim in footy shorts. Victa (2 stroke lawn mower, thongs - buggered if I know any american expression for thongs - its footwear, not undies, Esky is an icebox (esky - eskimos) ang Ugg boots - lambswool / skin boots that Australi recently won a copyright war with a Yank company trying to claim the name - short for Ugly
18. Correct. The U-ey (U turn)
19. Wrong. Cracking on means attempting to entice someone into a sexual relationship. When you cracked on, you succeeded.
20. All of them. If you know your cricket, you'll know Warnie !!!
21. Of course.
22. Half right. Para short for paralytic - your so pissed you are useless for anything that involves having your clothes on.


happy New Year and good drinking.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I think I have the correct answer to this riddle (singular):

#'s 1 through 30: Aussies drink a lot...a whole lot...I mean, seriously, a they drink a metric sh*t ton.

 

[PeteOz77]

Yank "Thongs" are called "Flip Flops"

 

[budbo]

Yank "Thongs" are called "Flip Flops"

Because the word "Thong" in American refers to a garment that barely covers the pube region (shaving generally required) and is held on by a string up the crack. There was a time when thong= flip flops.

So how would one of you guys like to send me some VB? Aussie hospitality was always the bomb, every time I went there they would meet the plane with a pickup loaded with beer, usually VB I haven't had any since the Aussie detachment in Diego Garcia had 20 cases flown in for a party.

 

[RichBrewer]

I love the way Australians talk. I don't understand much of it but it sounds cool!

I spent 3 weeks in Queensland about 12 years ago and the people there are some of the friendliest I've ever met!

 

[menschmaschine]

I think the world is ready for another Aussie invasion like in the 80's... Men At Work, Road Warrior, INXS, Crocodile Dundee, etc. That was [totally] awesome! Not many Americans knew what Vegemite was until they heard "Down Under". (If it tastes anything like Marmite, it is detinitely an acquired taste!)

 

[merc]

MMMMMM VB. I haven't had any of those in about 14 years....

 

[boo boo]

VB to them is like BMC to us.

 

[merc]

VB to them is like BMC to us.

Not as much as Fosters is. That is their true piss in a can.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

My BIL is from Sydney, though he's been married to my sister and living in the US for many years now, most recently in northern CA. But he still sounds just like Paul Hogan.

Years ago they were visiting us from Dallas and we went out for supper one evening. the waitress was entranced by his accent and finally couldn't contain himself any longer. She had to ask: "Oh, I just LOVE your accent, where are you from???"
His answer: "Texas."

I laughed so hard I blew BMC through my nose.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

You lost me at "flashing a brown eye".

 

[BuffaloSabresBrewer]

Vegemite was defiantly interesting developed enough of a taste for it to try to find it when I got back to the states.

 

[Fatgodzilla]

VB - Victoria Bitter. Used to be good once. Then the brewing world went genuine megaswill and VB now stands for very bland.

We have a site in Australia that rates beer. You get one star if you taste as bad as Budweiser and another if you are better than Budweiser. VB gets 1 1/2 stars. Thoroughly deserved - it's crap. But like Bud, the sell a lot of it !

Vegemite - I drool just hearing the word. Lucky the rest of the world hates it. More for us.

You lost me at "flashing a brown eye".

"Chucking a brown eye" is the expression. You call it mooning.

Not as much as Fosters is. That is their true piss in a can.

There is good piss and bad piss. And bad meaning crook. Not good like sick.
Fosters is the name beer that is brewed in so many countries its not funny. I'll guarantee you it tastes better brewed in America than that brewed in Australia. In fact, it is barely drunk in Australia (VB the dominent brew from that company).

many years ago I lived in Alice Springs and hooked up with a bunch of guys working at the CIA funded Pine Gap Surveillance site. I could get as far as the living quarters and used to go there Tuesdays when Monday Night NFL was beamed in (they had to use the satelittes for something good) Every couple of days, big Galaxys and Starlifters flew in from the States with beer from every state and enough American food to feed China. I thought American beer was great but of course, I was young and the company grand. Every year I watch the Superbowl and try to score any american beer I can - we get both types here - Budweiser & Millers. This year I'm brewing an American pale ale using simcoe, amarillo and glacier to hop . I support two teams - Green Bay cos they in Aussie colours (green & gold) and Pittsburgh (cos my rugby league team here in Oz were the Illawarra Steelers). Let's hope one of them can stop the Pats.

Cop ya later (see you around). I'm dry as a dead dingo's donger (thirsty) and need a beer (brewski ?) Thanks for taking part in this pop quiz

Fatgodzilla

 

[merc]

In 1993 I had the pleasure of meeting up with a couple of Aussie girls at the Hard Rock Cafe in Tokyo. Had a grand old time, but learned I shouldn't try to keep up with a shiela determined to drink you under the table. I haven't had a Hurricane since.

Then 3 or 4 years ago a group Aussie Air Force came over here to train with us. I got a kick out of their expressions when a bunch of my counterparts were disappointed the aussies didn't bring pallets of Fosters with them. I believe some of the Aussies were offended at the thought of dragging any amount of Fosters half way around the world.

 

[Bruscar]

I love it! I love hearing accents and interesting slang. Thanks for that!