Vegemite again (was: Re: Heston Speech)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 21:20:46 MST


At 11:12 PM 21/02/01 EST, the Spudster wrote:

>this poor boy holding up two crossed Vegemite
> sandwiches?

>You come from the land of love, "where women glow and men thunder, can' t
you
>see the the thunder? You'd better run, better take cover"

Well, quite so, but I always assumed that line was `men chunder'. Women
`glow' because they are far too refeened to *sweat* (or maybe it's their
gorgeous sunburn, I can't be sure). Men `chunder' (i.e. throw up, hurl
their bickies [i.e. their biscuits], yodel to the porcelain telephone, etc)
because they drink so much beer. Thus, the mythology.

I'm certain Emlyn could do a better job of explaining this, the pisspot.

Damien Broderick
[oop!]



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