Matthew,
Wrote 3 lines yesterday, myself, good day!
Wisest thing ever said to me about poets and work
was by Dimitris Tsaloumas not long ago:-
"I have found that if you write one line a day,
and you live to be 78,
they will call it a Collected Poems."
best
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: Language (Australian):- 'B-O-G' on the MCG
> I think they're great words, especially the dragonish sound of
> 'rip-snorter'. One Australian expression is in use in my family -
> 'stonkered' for 'full up'. Not sure where we got it from.
>
> I remember a schoolfriend who had maps of Britain demarcated according to
> the dialect words for 'alley' and 'the smallest pig in a litter'. Also he
> told me that the Gloucestershire word for a date was 'rumsey-voosy' (from
> rendezvous). You could probably do a world map on the words used in
> different places for sneakers ('pumps' in the north of England, 'daps' in
> Wales, 'tackies' in Zimbabwe).
>
> Trying to write today with no success whatever.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 30 July 2000 12:56
> Subject: Re: Language (Australian):- 'B-O-G' on the MCG
>
>
> >not if you are interested in the Australian vernacular,
> >and I speak as someone interested in the UK vernacular
> >whuch is even more various.
> >
> >As for Will's question, see my poem posted this archive
> >21 May 2000, and note that at the time my brother
> >(and my family as a whole) were residentially bound
> >under a zoning recruiting system such that if any good
> >we had to play for Hawthorn.
> >
> >My best childhood friend, Patrick, lived opposite
> >Glenferrie Oval when I was 10.
> >
> >"Teach the free man how to praise"
> >
> >Hugh
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 9:21 PM
> >Subject: Re: Language (Australian):- 'B-O-G' on the MCG
> >
> >
> >> Is a rip-snorter the same as a ripper, and aren't there laws against
> >kicking
> >> them? Shouldn't they be allowed to get on with their rip-snorting in
> >peace?
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >>
> >> Matthew
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Date: 30 July 2000 03:27
> >> Subject: Re: Language (Australian):- 'B-O-G' on the MCG
> >>
> >>
> >> >Oh, and to be fair, Andrew McLeod
> >> >who won a Norm Smith Medal for being
> >> >B-O-G in an AFL Grand Final (first koori
> >> >to do so, unless preceeded by Michael Long),
> >> >well he wears his Adelaide jumper with pride
> >> >and stirred a losing side
> >> >by screaming down the boundary line
> >> >to 50 metres out and kicking
> >> >a rip-snorter in the last Qtr.
> >> >
> >> >Best
> >> >
> >> >Hugh
> >> >
> >> >PS That cheered KF Pearson up quite a bit!
> >> >However Dr Jennifer Harrison tells me the Sydney
> >> >vs Richmond game was terrific stuff!
> >> >----- Original Message -----
> >> >From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 12:53 AM
> >> >Subject: Language (Australian):- 'B-O-G' on the MCG
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> please pardon the acronyms:-
> >> >>
> >> >> 'B-O-G' in Australian Rules Football writing
> >> >> means 'Best on Ground'
> >> >>
> >> >> and Holland ended up kicking seven
> >> >> on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
> >> >>
> >> >> this post if for non-melbourne listees
> >> >> exclusively,
> >> >> for Sydney listees "you lot were bloody lucky
> >> >> to beat the Tigers by a point!"
> >> >>
> >> >> cheers in a plastic glass
> >> >>
> >> >> Hugh
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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