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Secret NZ submarine fleet off coast of Australia, ready to land at Bondi... 
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Haha! Ewe Boats.
Have ya seen the Kiwi version of silence of the lambs? It's called 'Shuddup Ewes'
In all seriosity now. The mass migration of sheep to Oz should substantially increase the IQ levels of both countries.
bada boom!
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Secret NZ submarine fleet off coast of Australia, ready to land at Bondi... Coming from a Tasmanian, the Aussie State famous for "Five hundred thousand People; Five Last Names", I'm sure the sheepshaggers will have their own laugh.
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Coming from a Tasmanian, the Aussie State famous for "Five hundred thousand People; Five Last Names", I'm sure the sheepshaggers will have their own laugh. Yee haa, and a big high six to you too!  After reading this,I'm going to try to cut back on the number of jokes I make about New Zealanders and sheep I'm not! Anyone know the difference between E.T. and a Kiwi living in Bondi?
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Step right up, folks. Don't crowd now. Tickets are a mere one thin dime, only the tenth part of a dollar. The next session of the Tasman War is breaking out just now. Hurry to get good seats.
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Ooh, ooh--where was the pav invented? [poking the borax e]
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... a mere one thin dime, only the tenth part of a dollar. Interesting peculiarly American word that. We don't do dimes, all we have are ten cent pieces, not nearly so economical of words. What's the etymology of 'dime'?
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perhaps etymonline will have a feeling for it: dime
chosen 1786 as name for U.S. 10 cent coin, from dime "a tenth, tithe" (1377), from O.Fr. disme, from L. decima (pars) "tenth (part)," from decem "ten." The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call. A dime a dozen "almost worthless" first recorded 1930. Phrase stop on a dime attested by 1954. never heard of the "inform" thing. huh.
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and then, for those with a basketball jones, a dime is, for some unfathomable reason, an assist.
-joe (shooters are a dime a dozen?) friday
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perhaps etymonline will have a feeling for it: dime
chosen 1786 as name for U.S. 10 cent coin, from dime "a tenth, tithe" (1377), from O.Fr. disme, from L. decima (pars) "tenth (part)," from decem "ten." The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call. A dime a dozen "almost worthless" first recorded 1930. Phrase stop on a dime attested by 1954. never heard of the "inform" thing. huh. Guess you must be too young, huh? Neither have I, though I am familiar with the other uses from old American movies. In Australia and NZ the equivalent of 'dime, vb. to inform on someone' is the word 'dob' which is probably from cockney slang I think. To 'dob someone in' or 'dob on someone' is to tell on them or inform on them. The person doing this is known as a 'dobber,' which has a pejorative connotation similar to the word 'scab' and results in a similar treatment by those 'dobbed on'.
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Ooh, ooh--where was the pav invented? [poking the borax e] If you believe wikipedia, the recipe was first written in New Zealand. Of course, that doesn't mean it was invented in New Zealand, just that they could write before Australians, which everybody probably already knew.
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perhaps etymonline will have a feeling for it: dime
chosen 1786 as name for U.S. 10 cent coin, from dime "a tenth, tithe" (1377), from O.Fr. disme, from L. decima (pars) "tenth (part)," from decem "ten." The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call. A dime a dozen "almost worthless" first recorded 1930. Phrase stop on a dime attested by 1954. never heard of the "inform" thing. huh. Guess you must be too young, huh? Neither have I, though I am familiar with the other uses from old American movies. hmm, well, I did watch a lot of Mannix and Hawaii 5-0, but don't remember "dime"...
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dime
The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call.
I have heard of to drop a dime meaning to inform on somebody, to snitch, to grass, to nark, but not to dime.
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Ooh, ooh--where was the pav invented? [poking the borax e] If you believe wikipedia, the recipe was first written in New Zealand. Of course, that doesn't mean it was invented in New Zealand, just that they could write before Australians, which everybody probably already knew. Who cares? I can't stand pavlova anyway. I like the fruit (ironically usually kiwi fruit) on the top of it but I hate the meringue.
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