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Tiger teasie
Dec. 14th, 2009 02:40 pmI got some seasonal spam today: Santa's best friend is your dog. Even spammers get the festive spirit.
There is an Australian character called Quinn in the comic strip Luann at the moment. Well... he says he's Australian but he also recently claimed that Australians celebrate Thanksgiving, so I think he's from that northern part of Australia known as Canada. Anyway, after celebrating a traditional Australian Thanksgiving, he's moved onto Christmas, claiming that he's going to sing that well-known song 'Oi'm draymun ava woit Crassmiss', which is half right and half completely wrong.
I thought no more of this until today, when I saw a poster in a bookshop window advertising a re-release of Let Stalk Strine by Afferbeck Lauder*, an old book that rendered common phrases into phonetic broad Australian. I can't wait to see Quinn the fake Australian singing that New Year's Eve classic, 'Shoulder Quaint S Beefer Got'.
A prize** if you can translate the subject line ('tiger teasie') of this entry into English. Unleash your inner Strine!
* Let's Talk Australian by Alphabetical Order.
** Self-satisfaction.
There is an Australian character called Quinn in the comic strip Luann at the moment. Well... he says he's Australian but he also recently claimed that Australians celebrate Thanksgiving, so I think he's from that northern part of Australia known as Canada. Anyway, after celebrating a traditional Australian Thanksgiving, he's moved onto Christmas, claiming that he's going to sing that well-known song 'Oi'm draymun ava woit Crassmiss', which is half right and half completely wrong.
I thought no more of this until today, when I saw a poster in a bookshop window advertising a re-release of Let Stalk Strine by Afferbeck Lauder*, an old book that rendered common phrases into phonetic broad Australian. I can't wait to see Quinn the fake Australian singing that New Year's Eve classic, 'Shoulder Quaint S Beefer Got'.
A prize** if you can translate the subject line ('tiger teasie') of this entry into English. Unleash your inner Strine!
* Let's Talk Australian by Alphabetical Order.
** Self-satisfaction.