Re: People unclear on the subject

Bill Snyder wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 23:00:54 +1000, "Gary R. Schmidt"
> <grschmidt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Sea Wasp wrote:
>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 07:28:17 -0400, Sea Wasp
>>>> <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Wayne Throop wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> :::: Then what are "vegemites"? ::: Inedible. :: Pernicious lies!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> : "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>> : "I come from the land Down Under.
>>>>>> : Where men chunder!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But that's explicitly beer-related chundering.
>>>>>>
>>>>>     Hmm, I always heard it as
>>>>>     "I come from the land Down Under,
>>>>>      Where women glow and men plunder".
>>>>
>>>> Which is correct for the first and third choruses. The middle chorus
>>>> goes "where beer does flow and men chunder". 
>>>     I didn't realize that Australia had a nuclear program, let alone
it 
>>> contaminated only the female members of the species. Unless "glow" has

>>> another meaning.
>> Women glow,
>> Men perspire,
>> Horses sweat.
>>
>>>     And I have to guess at what "chunder" means.
>> Apocryphally, it derives from the shouts of "Watch under" that the 
>> convicts used to warn those hanging out the lower ports of the 
>> transports that some one above them was (about to) have a technicolour
yawn.
>>
>> And to whoever thought that it was a "Technicolour snake," you were 
>> misremembering "One-eyed trouser snake."
> 
> Nah.  Possibly Rincewind is confused.  See Pratchett's _The Last
> Continent_:
> 
>   "'I think I'm about to have a technicolor snake' he added, 
>    and threw up."
I know - but by not knowing I was then able to post the words to One 
Eyed Trouser Snake!

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

P.S.  "And I want you to know we have some very fine Chardonnays..."

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