We knew that. Now put the toys back in the pram and talk about HA. The wobbly chuck was epic!
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:59 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > "My word you really do spit the dummy old chap" has made my day. > > It is a delightful example of a perhaps not quite current Australian > idiom---'spit the dummy' for 'have a[n infantile] tantrum'---embedded > in a mock British-English dialect reminiscent of the language of > Colonel Blimp in Sir David Low's eponymous, circa-1934 cartoons. > > Still, the combination is original. Low, a New Zealander, would have > known but would never have used 'spit the dummy'. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
