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Clive Huggan
Flames, Paul? A "sea of flames"?!!
My good man, what you saw in this thread was the robust but fond hurling
back and forth of descriptions of the foibles of fellow Australians. We have
a streak of larrikinism in our make-up that is sometimes mystifying to
people from the US. Hmm, I may have to define that since you are of that
persuasion: "Larrikinism is the name given to the Australian folk tradition
of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of
propriety. Larrikinism can also be associated with self-deprecating humour"
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin (You can tell that wasn't written
by an Aussie -- strewth, we wouldn't dare use the term "folk tradition".)
John is not displaying larrikinism when he says "Clive is ordinarily a
perfect gentleman". He *is*, though, when he says this in a Sydney
restaurant when he sees I am slow to get out my wallet.
And when he says "It's the Huggan Horribilis..." he is not only showing his
cultural richness (albeit he isn't consciously aware of that) in breaking
into Latin; he is gently alluding to an expression our monarch, Queen
Elizabeth II, used in a speech a few years ago.
You were lucky that the other Australian who frequents this newsgroup, Mr
Elliott Roper, was not involved. He is *even more* cultured, and more of a
larrikin...
Um, I don't think the Applescript fix can be moved up. People will have to
delve into the riches as you did. ;-)
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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My good man, what you saw in this thread was the robust but fond hurling
back and forth of descriptions of the foibles of fellow Australians. We have
a streak of larrikinism in our make-up that is sometimes mystifying to
people from the US. Hmm, I may have to define that since you are of that
persuasion: "Larrikinism is the name given to the Australian folk tradition
of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of
propriety. Larrikinism can also be associated with self-deprecating humour"
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin (You can tell that wasn't written
by an Aussie -- strewth, we wouldn't dare use the term "folk tradition".)
John is not displaying larrikinism when he says "Clive is ordinarily a
perfect gentleman". He *is*, though, when he says this in a Sydney
restaurant when he sees I am slow to get out my wallet.
And when he says "It's the Huggan Horribilis..." he is not only showing his
cultural richness (albeit he isn't consciously aware of that) in breaking
into Latin; he is gently alluding to an expression our monarch, Queen
Elizabeth II, used in a speech a few years ago.
You were lucky that the other Australian who frequents this newsgroup, Mr
Elliott Roper, was not involved. He is *even more* cultured, and more of a
larrikin...
Um, I don't think the Applescript fix can be moved up. People will have to
delve into the riches as you did. ;-)
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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