Australians, is it true?

[Taka Muraoka]

mystro_AKA_kokie wrote: it true that one of your most colorfull phrases are comparing quantities to ticks testicule? I saw that as well :-) It's actually not a common phrase - I had never heard it before. We usually use the phrase "bee's dick" when refering to something very small. They guy was probably just trying to be polite on TV :rolleyes: :-D

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[Wato]

Never heard that and bearly heard of comparing to a Bee's dick as well. :omg:Thats said from someone who is Australian. Wato

[Chris Maunder]

Yeah - Bee's dick is the official Government approved measure of a small quantity. cheers, Chris Maunder

[Christian Graus]

Wato wrote: bearly heard of comparing to a Bee's dick as well I'm an Aussie too, and I've never heard the original phrase ( which I now can't remember ), but the bee one is in common usage in Vic and Tas, for sure ( the two places I have lived long term, other states not excluded except that I cannot comment, and Sydneysiders talk a language all their own, with an accent all their own. ). Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

...and just don't get me started about those Canberrans...:rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder

[John Carson]

mystro_AKA_kokie wrote: i was watching bbc news refering to the new railroad. is it true that one of your most colorfull phrases are comparing quantities to ticks testicule? No, it is not true. I have never heard the expression. John Carson "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." - Bertrand Russell

[Rob Manderson]

I know the phrase as 'it's smaller than a gnats nuts*' :) I'm from Victoria - it may differ elsewhere within Australia. *Nope, not a commentary from a former girlfriend :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003

[Rob Manderson]

Chris Maunder wrote: just don't get me started about those Canberrans Apart from trying to cross the intersection of Barry Drive and Northbourne Avenue at peak hour I always found Canberrans wonderful people. Just don't try being a pedestrian during peak hour :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003

[Roger Wright]

Chris Maunder wrote: Bee's dick is the official Government approved measure of a small quantity. Here we use the RCH unit... "Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.

[Silver Ghost]

In the UK (Yorkshire) we use "Gnats cock hair" - no not to clean our teeth, it's just an expression. Why do I still work here?

[Richard Jones]

Roger Wright wrote: Here we use the RCH unit... (cleaning coffee off the screen) :laugh: I've only heard that around here, esp in the army.;P "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives