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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Have A Go #44571 10/21/2001 12:40 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia Keiva Nice of you to be nice to Helen - but the whole point of the post was where does this piece of Ozzie slang come from? I now suspect that it's all to do with birling/burling = spinning and thus a reference to taking a chance. stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Have A Go stales 10/14/2001 3:20 PM Re: Have A Go of troy 10/14/2001 3:48 PM Re: Have A Go Keiva 10/14/2001 4:01 PM Re: Have A Go wow 10/14/2001 6:19 PM Re: Have A Go Capital Kiwi 10/14/2001 7:25 PM Re: Have A Go wofahulicodoc 10/14/2001 10:49 PM Birling Bobyoungbalt 10/15/2001 2:11 AM Re: Have A Go stales 10/14/2001 11:19 PM Re: Have A Go Jackie 10/15/2001 2:17 AM Re: Have A Go stales 10/15/2001 4:03 AM Re: Have A Go stales 10/15/2001 4:57 AM chocolate wheel TEd Remington 10/15/2001 4:54 PM Re: chocolate wheel Capital Kiwi 10/16/2001 10:45 PM Have a go belMarduk 10/17/2001 1:04 AM Re: Have a go doc_comfort 10/17/2001 1:14 AM Re: Have A Go tsuwm 10/15/2001 5:03 AM Stream-of-consciousness Jackie 10/15/2001 11:08 AM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 10/17/2001 9:15 AM Chocolate wheel redux TEd Remington 10/17/2001 4:50 PM Re: Have A Go Keiva 10/15/2001 3:12 PM Re: Have A Go of troy 10/15/2001 3:53 PM Re: Have A Go Keiva 10/15/2001 4:37 PM Re: Have A Go stales 10/21/2001 12:40 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,328 Members9,209 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 9 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,171 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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