i got all patriotic on australia day last week...

[danny_galaga]

and i finally got this in the mail:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=260075653802&rd=1&rd=1

ah, the memories  . know one else i know remembers this book. we read it in engish in high school 20 years ago for a relief from jack kerouac. even then it was old (published 1965). its a little gem though. heres an example of how we speak (",)

`Aorta mica laura genst all these prairlers and sleshers an pervs.
Aorta puttem in jile an shootem.'

even the authors name is strine- afferbeck lauder. afferbeck lauder is the correct sequence you arrange the written letters of a language, eg: A B C D E F G H etc...

you can glean more from here:

http://www.textfiles.com/humor/strine.txt

oi, oi, oi...

[Bones]

You are a very strange man Mr Gal-laga.

[danny_galaga]

You are a very strange man Mr Gal-laga.

so are you the kettle, or the pot rocket boy?