On 2021-04-06 09:35, Roger Clarke wrote: > Reminds me of a classified ad I tried to put in the SMH in the 1970s. > > I think I'd written something like 'Flatmate sought for 2-bedroom flat in > Balmain. A lively female would be good'> >> Maybe there was a sub-culture in inner-western Sydney at the time in which >> 'lively' was a euphemism for something else; but for whatever reason my ad >> was rejected. I remember seeing ads for share-households with a "gay atmosphere" around then and nobody would have mistaken that signal. But a "lively female"... did you try advertising in the Balmain local rag? I think Balmain was consolidating its position as a refuge for academics and left-leaning voters in the mid-seventies,, hence Paul Keating's rather unkind reference to "balmain basket weavers" which almost passed into the language.
He could be very entertaining at times though! David Lochrin _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
