Gosh Max just looked up Dag on the disc OED jobby some one gave me (all 30
?vols )fascinating yes I will answer to dag patrick as it's in ye olde
Chaucer (an early Ozman?)does not mention dag as a lesbian ?orhave I got
that wrong Raynes Park is not always up to date -I liked the Botanical
garden café in Melbourne(about time that city was renamed??)
Cheers Deputy Adjutant-General Patrick
Good to hear from you my Oz partner she has now got a Pom
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Subject: Patrick is a dag
on 22/12/04 10:15 PM, Patrick McManus at [log in to unmask]
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> 'While the men searched for a broken branch long enough,
> a female threesome in their hired dinghy inched towards them,
> tangled with the hanging fronds of fresh willow,
> reversed towards their object,
> and hoisted the ball out safely'
>
> Max Does this refer to the mating habits of the Oz -interested Patrick I
> remember the Yarra being a sort of vomit colour??
- ah, Patrick, you are a wag, or as we say here, a dag. Now you ask, I
think I was sensing a potential mystery in the simple act of strangers
helping strangers...
And what colour is vomit? this is something much considered by specialists
in the Australian vernacular - phrases like 'rainbow chunder' come to mind.
As for the Yarra, it does regrettably parade in khaki for the most part. A
few days without rain to sweep clay into it, and it may seem bluish, then
you see it after rain and have you tell yourself firmly that it's a natural
discoloration ... much angling going on along the banks this month, I
notice.
Season's grrrs, Patrick, and everyone.
Lovely to see the gift of words for Árni build up. Still painful to imagine
him subjected to hospital routine, unfree, variously disabled.
Max by the Yarra, Melbourne
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