Long Branch

[Bearclaw]

Thanks Bearhunter,

Looking through Ian Skennerton's book and it show's the factory site and saw the simililarity of the two. I put two and two together and saw Doug's joke.
Your mate was lucky, wish I could go on a bear hunt. A mate was supposed to bring me back a bear claw but I don't think he left the pub. Nothing dangerous over here other than scrub bulls and Croc's which the latter are protected, but they sure make fishing interesting.


Myles

[Baal]

I spent 5 years on a Cree indian reserve where there were almost as many black bears as people.

Most were nice neighbors like this...


Some weren't...

[smellie]

Oh, lard Jays, me old son, I knows 'bout de Queen's H'English: ye drops yer aitch in 'Olyrood an' picks 'er hup in H'Avondale. Da onest ye got dat squared away, I c'n tel yiz 'bout hice, den we gets de gaffs and goes fer a coppy crost de battycatters. Now fer de big quschun: is youse come chutch sunny h'even 'longside we?

You think the English, the Americans and the Australians destroy the language, friends, you haven't lived a few years in an isolated Newfoundland outport! The above is a mix of dialects from Seldom-Come-By and Change Islands, by the way.

I have learned a great deal on this thread. For one really important point, I now know what a King Screw might be. I have been reading the term on the Internet for the last four years and had no idea what it was for sure, just that the term was being used and it definitely was NOT in any of my manuals.

One thing I would really like to know is the origin of the term "Pom". We don't use it here, largely for fear of what the English might call some of us!

I think I now shall run away and play with my Winnie (1886) and my Remmy (1871), my Mousie (also 1871) and the Lugies and Webbies and such..... at least until those nice young chaps with the butterfly nets haul me away!

This is fun!
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[bearhunter]

Bear Claw, I hear and see from a few Aussie publications that you have some fair sized and nasty wild hogs. Bears aren't particularly dangerous. Most aren't. The few that are, give the rest a bad name.

[Peter Laidler]

It''s all you foreigners spoiling our language with your speeling misteaks too

[Bearclaw]

Bear Hunter, you have too worry about the drop bears. Blood thirsty buggers them, rip your juggler with one quick swipe of their claws. No chance when they drop out the trees, they don't speak of them because tourists are already scared of the spiders. snakes and crocodiles. Bloody scary buggers.

Bloody big boars down here, there is only one way to fix em and that is .303.

Myles

[oldhound]

here we got the gougers. Side hill gougers. Very vicious. They live only on side hills and the legs are shorter on one side. Because of this they are very fast and dangerous. 303 works.