The Wombat does it better than the Kiwi. "Eats roots shoots and leaves"
On Tue, May 11, 2021, 06:04 Radoslaw Skorupka <r.skoru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Kiwi - there is polish joke about it: Kiwi kiwi kiwi. Yes, it makes > some sense, yes, it is funny. > No, I cannot explain it without long lecture about declension, etc. > BTW: there is another version of same joke: Zombie zombie zombie. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > (looking for new job) > Lodz, Poland > > > > > W dniu 10.05.2021 o 22:00, Mike Cairns pisze: > > As an Australian I can vouch for the veracity of the noted definition of > the word 'root', although I would also suggest that this usage was almost > always confined to a younger generation and seems to be someone one grows > out of. :-) > > > > Then there is the standard Aussie joke we tell about Kiwi's (another > slang word for people from New Zealand, and also a small flightless bird > that ferrets around in the undergrowth for food): > > > > "I'd like to be a Kiwi, 'cos he eats roots and leaves". > > > > Cheers - Mike > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
