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I found one that was…kind of cute…
I was young looking for birds eggs and found a starling egg of bright blue.I noticed a hair thin crack and when I opened it up there was the fattest baby fly (maggot) inside.
What had happened was the fly Lucy something or other had laid live young on the cracked egg,one had managed to get inside…then grew huge on the yolk but couldn’t get out again.
Weird but true :roll_eyes:
 
You can’t tell me these little fellows aren’t cute 🙂 I have them in the garden ,usually the mother runs past when I’m digging with a blue egg sack she’s protecting .They’re fine.

 
Everything is cute until it bites you. Those cassowaries are nasty!

Root is Aussie slang for sex. But root beer float just sounds like a strange drink
 
When I get to Australia, I’ll order a spider, then. I hope it doesn’t show up with 8 legs 😄
 
Greenfields, we Australians may be the only adults in the world who use hen chatter as our unofficial name for them.
“Chooook chook-chook-chook!” How that began I’ve no idea. You feed the chooks, you gather the chook’s eggs.We had chooks when I was growing up, and they really are quite chatty.

What most amused my American daughter-in-law is our penchant for abbreviating various nouns then adding “Ie” to perfectly good words. Postie (postman) rellie (relation) barbie ‘barbecue’; mossie ‘mosquito’; pollie ‘politician’; prezzie ‘present’; sickie ‘a sick day off work’ ; sunnies ‘sunglasses’; tradie ‘tradesman; and others.

In casual speech Australians sometimes abbreviate and add an ‘o’. This includes “arvo” (afternoon)“ambo”, (ambo ‘ambulance officer); servo (service station, meaning fuel station, we don’t say ‘gas station’), “avo” (avocado); compo( ‘compensation); demo (demonstration); garbo (garbage collector.) There is something vagually affectionate in this tendency

It’s not that all of us use these words, or routinely use them, but we all know the meaning when anyone uses the slang.
Despite our odd use of the word 'chook for hens in private usage…we mostly speak presentable English with reasonable clarity. Our written English is consistent with English spelling and pronunciation, although there is the occasional aural torture of the diphthongs.
 
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Thanks for the primer. I think this “cuteness” tendency comes from being around koalas.

I’ll see if I can get some government funding to research my hypothesis. :+1:t4:
 
Hey, with your writing skills, you oughta be able to get one that will set you up for life. Then there’s the follow on etc.
 
It has been years ago but I had a float made with Guiness Stout instead of root beer it was quite good too. It may have been around Saint Patrick’s day. I am having a junior moment here as I do not remember what it was called. 🍻 cheers
 
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It has been years ago but I had a float made with Guiness Stout instead of root beer it was quite good too. It may have been around Saint Patrick’s day. I am having a junior moment here as I do not remember what it was called. 🍻 cheers
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If you say it’s good, I suppose it is, but just seems like a way to ruin both the Guiness and the ice cream.
 
My introduction to a pint of Guinness was with some Blackcurrent cordial to help it go down…after that erratic driving through Dublin all thanks to my friend 🤢
 
Ah, you know why God made whiskey? To make sure the Irish wouldn’t take over the world.
 
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