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mate,
I'm not sure about dead-set legend. Maybe in my own lunchtime.
Thanks for the info about paleoichthyology. Amongst the truly dreadful puns I got the answer I was looking for.
I know somebody is going to ask me about the title of my first book (I've actually written three now, almost four).
Deadly, unna? is actually Aboriginal slang. Aboriginal people all over Australia have adopted the term 'deadly'. Basically it means 'fantastic' or 'great'. 'Unna' is quite specific to the area where I grew up, to the Aborigines I used to play football with. It's equivalent to the Cockney 'innit'. A typical sentence would be 'Hot day, unna?' or 'That John Howard's a dickhead, unna?'
I might just blow my own trumpet here a bit. The book has just been made into a movie (I wrote the screenplay) which has just been selected for the Sundance Film festival. So instead of spending January in sunny Sydney I'll be in not-so-sunny Salt Lake City.
My own particular interest is slang, especially Australian slang. And my worry is that a lot of the great Aussie slang terms are dying so I'm on a one-man crusade to keep them alive!
Which is probably why I can't get an American publishing deal. They say my books are too 'parochial'.
I'd very much like to contact Dr Long. Even though us writers bend reality to suit our own purposes I'd like to get the science as correct as I can. Does anybody have his email?
thanks again for your help
Phillip
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(1) I believe John Long's email address is long@museum.wa.gov.au (2) Did the City Fathers of Salt Lake City spring for your trip - like they did for the IOC? P-) (3) Look forward to your Ozslang contributions. It's a hobby of mine as well - and well supported by many on the AWAD board. Jackie or Helen ("oftroy") sent me a good URL of a site with heaps of good old Aussie slang - ladies can you repeat the favour? (My favourite was "as flash as a rat with a gold tooth")(4) (for anybody that's interested) WA claims the best 3D fish fossils in the world and we've adopted one as our state fossil emblem. John Long described the species from Gogo Station and named it for his colleague and fellow fish freak Ken McNamara. Full details at http://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/emblems/gogo.htmlcheers stales
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jmh: Many thanks for the site on King Henry I. So, it was the fat of the eel that did him in! Death by fat at one sitting. Incredible!
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RE: So instead of spending January in sunny Sydney I'll be in not-so-sunny Salt Lake City.
Actually, it will be sunny. not warm, but sunny. that part of US often has clear, cold days.. I haven't checked the weather reports.. but its is a great area for skiing.. (a bit is going to be done round that way in February).
but isn't the Sundance Film festival in Jackson's Hole Wyoming? if it is, you'll love it. i haven't seen all of the US, but Wyoming is the most beautiful state i have seen! and Jackson's hole is spectaculary beautiful-- this coming from a cynical NY'er! great skiing there too..
if it is SLC, well worse then the weather is SLC is not a party town.. (and commentary at the Sydney games indicated Sydney was.. )you would be likely to find more exciting night life on a walkabout in the bush, than in SLC. But it will be sunny.
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In England they used to feed them to kings
Stories are told that the so-called First Thanksgiving feast, thrown by the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, featured no turkey but did have eel on the menu.
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Sweet WO'N, congratulations on losing your addiction!  And, Phillip, congratulations to you, too. Oh my goodness--Sundance is operated by...[be still my heart e]... Robert Redford. Do you think you might get to meet him? If so, I am your new production assistant, whom you cannot do without. There oughta be a law against any man being that good-looking. swoon! And, my dear...if all you were referring to as 'dreadful puns' was what you have read in this thread--BOY, do you have a lot to learn!  And, thanks for explaining 'unna'--that was Greek to me!
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There oughta be a law against any man being that good-looking.
Are women as bewildered by what men think good-looking as men are about what women do?
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>Stories are told that the so-called First Thanksgiving feast, thrown by the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, featured no turkey but did have eel on the menu. I understand that the eels went particularly well with the popcorn. It is such a shame that the tradition was dropped, it would be great going to buy some eels and popcorn on the way into the cinema. Of course, you still can in the East End of London http://www.pilot.co.uk/NewFiles/PFood_Eel.htmlBy the way, I thought that the Australians thought that we'd sent the wretched refuse of our teeming shore to them. Didn't the pilgims leave our ungodly isle of their own accord?
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Are women as bewildered by what men think good-looking as men are about what women do?
I've seen it "confuse" them... but I've seen them be wild about *it more often.
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