Is this for real?

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I have watched it a few times, and while I know a 707 is capable of a barrel roll, a 747 passenger jet doing one so close to landing is….totally unbelievable.  Either a great ad for Kia….or Virgin Airlines.  Hehe.

 

The Ostrich Pillow for napping anywhere!

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When I first saw this on facebook, I wondered, are they serious?  I mean, sure I love to nap, and have often done it in my computer chair.  Even face desked onto my keyboard.  But…would I seriously consider wearing one of these?  The jury is still out.  What do you think?

Hands Down, This Is The Cutest, Most Fun Commercial Of All Time.

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but…then they had to make a Spiderman version!

 

 

Bahahahha!

The Eighties called……

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Very exotic coffee.

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This ad for Moccona Mocha Kenya was originally scripted as a rough Scotsman. Hayward and UK casting director Nina Gold decided on a different angle.   Shot in a supermarket in Bondi Beach, this ad from Clemenger Sydney became an overnight success and is the first of 3 commercials Hayward made for the brand.

Is this my Coffee Prince Charming?

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-waits with the lid off her coffee jar to see if he pulls up at her door-

 

(Commercial for Moccona coffee, created by M&C Saatchi Sydney. Filmed on location in Montevideo, Uruguay, in March 2008.)

“Sorry mate, they’re nutty.”

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The first commercial in a campaign for Crunchy Nut talks to the spontaneous, “ooh go on then” side in everyone, about the sheer irresistible taste of the food.

Created by Leo Burnett, the ad takes the brand back to the traditional end line of “The trouble is they taste too good”. There’s just something about the golden flakes encrusted with their magic combination of honey, nuts and brown sugar that means that, once you’ve tried them, you’ll just want more, regardless of the circumstance…

In the first commercial in the campaign we see one such ‘circumstance’. Entitled ‘Snake’, we see an expert snake catcher, Mick, going about his business only to be distracted at the worst possible moment by his humble assistant, who just could not resist satisfying his craving for the cereal. With Mick distracted, the deadly Red Riddler, agitated by the loud crunch, leaps from a kitchen cupboard and settles up Mick’s khaki shorts to comic effect. The assistant offers an offhand apology, using the nuttiness of the cereal to justify his actions.

10 of the Best – Australian Beer Ads.

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Penny for my thoughts – That’s not a shrimp, its a prawn!

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Getting the raw prawn.

 

One thing that I find has had a long lasting effect as far as Australian advertising trying to sell our country to the world, is the foreign  terminology that is used.   A famous example of this, was an advertising campaign by Paul Hogan, with the tag line, “I’ll slip  another shrimp on the Barbie.”  Now, seems that a lot of people remember that line and associate it with visiting Australia.

 

 

Damn, that was filmed back in the 1980’s and still I have people say to me, that if they come to Oz, that they want me to get the shrimps ready.   Okay, so I have to come out and say it for all to hear.

THEY’RE PRAWNS!  Not shrimp.

So…to help my online friends, I have decided to find as much Aussie slang and phrases that will help the weary traveler and blogger, understand what I am saying at times.

 

Ack Willy: AWL or Absent without leave.

Aerial pingpong: Australian Rules football

Airships and clouds: Sausages with mashed potato

Amber fluid: beer

Animal: a derogatory term for an Officer or NCO

Ankle biter: small child

Antipodes: places on exactly opposite sides of the earth

Apples, she’ll be: It’ll be alright

Armchair commando: desk bound soldier

Arvo: afternoon

Atta-boys: Atebrin pills taken for prevention of malaria, taken daily under the supervision of an NCO

Aussie (pron. Ozzie): Australian

Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand

Avos: avocados

 

Back of Bourke: a very long way away

Bail out: depart, usually angrily

Bail (somebody) up: to corner somebody physically

Barbie: barbecue (noun)

Banana bender: a person from Queensland

Bangers and mash: sausages and mashed potato

Barrack: to cheer on (football team etc.)

Bastard: can be either a term of affection or the opposite!!

Battler: someone working hard and only just making a living

Beaut, beauty: great, fantastic

Betty (also Betties): A particular type of Japanese bomber, but later in war used loosely to describe any Japanese bomber

Biscuit bombers (or bully beef bombers): Usually a Dakota (C-47) which dropped food and ammunition to forward areas.

Big-note oneself: brag, boast

Bikkie: biscuit (also “it cost big bikkies” – it was expensive)

Billabong: an ox-bow river or watering hole

Billy: large tin can used to boil water over a campfire for tea

Bities: biting insects

Bitzer: mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that)

Bizzo: business (“mind your own bizzo”)

Black Stump, beyond the: a long way away, the back of nowhere

Bloke: man, guy

Bloody: very (bloody hard yakka)

Bloody oath!: that’s certainly true

Bloody beaut: fantastic

Blot: bum, arse, rear end

Blow through: go away

Blow in the bag: have a breathalyzer test

Blowie: blow fly

Bludger: lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things

Blue: fight (“he was having a blue with his wife”)

Blue, make a: make a mistake

Bluey: pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead

Bluey (or Blue): blue cattle dog (named after its subtle markings) which is an excellent working dog. Everyone’s favourite all-Aussie dog.

Bob’s your uncle: It will be alright

Bodgy: of inferior quality

Bomb-happy: affected mentally by battle, or shell shocked

Bombo: cheap wine 

Bonzer: great, ripper

Boogie board: a hybrid, half-sized surf board

Boomer: a large male kangaroo

Booze bus: police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers

Boozer: a pub

Bottle-o: liquor shop

Bottle shop: liquor shop

Bottler: something excellent

Bottling, his blood’s worth: he’s an excellent, helpful bloke.

Bourke Street, he doesn’t know Christmas from: he’s a bit slow in the head. (Bourke Street is a brightly lit Melbourne street)

Brass razoo, he hasn’t got a: he’s very poor

Brekkie: breakfast

Brizzie: Brisbane, state capital of Queensland

Brown-eyed mullet: a turd in the sea (where you’re swimming!)

Brumby: a wild horse

Buckley’s, Buckley’s chance: no chance (“New Zealand stands Buckley’s of beating Australia at football”)

Buck’s night: stag party, male gathering the night before the wedding

Bull bar: stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos

Bullshit, to: To tell lies

Bundy: short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that’s made there

Bunyip: mythical outback creature

Burgoo: porridge

Bush: the hinterland, the Outback, anywhere that isn’t in town

Bush artillery: artillery captured from the enemy and reused against them

Bushie: someone who lives in the Bush

Bushranger: highwayman, outlaw

B.Y.O.: unlicensed restaurant where you have to Bring Your Own grog, also similar party or barbecue

 

Cark it: to die, cease functioning

Charley the Bastard: A Boyes Tank Attack Rifle; So named because of its tremendous recoil

Chewy: Chewing gum

Choke a darkie: defecate

Chokkie: chocolate

Chook chuff: powdered eggs

Chook: a chicken

Chrissie: Christmas

Christmas: see Bourke Street

Chuck a sickie: take the day off sick from work when you’re perfectly healthy

Chuck a yonnie: Throw a stone

Chunder: vomit

Clayton’s: fake, substitute

Click: kilometre – “it’s 10 clicks away”

Cobber: friend

Cockie: farmer. Also a cockatoo

Cockroach: a person from New South Wales

Coldie: a beer

Come a gutser: make a bad mistake, have an accident

Compo: Workers’ Compensation pay

Cooee, not within: figuratively a long way away, far off – England weren’t within cooee of beating Australia at cricket

Corroboree: an aboriginal dance festival

Counter lunch: pub lunch

Cozzie: swimming costume

Cranky: in a bad mood, angry

Cream (verb): defeat by a large margin

Crook: sick, or badly made

Crow eater: a person from South Australia

Cut lunch: sandwiches

Cut lunch Commandos: School cadets

Cut snake, mad as a: very angry

 

Dag: a funny person, nerd, goof

Daks: trousers

Damper: bread made from flour and water

Deadset: true, the truth

Dero: tramp, hobo, homeless person (from “derelict”)

Digger: a soldier

Dill: an idiot

Dinkum, fair dinkum: true, real, genuine (“I’m a dinkum Aussie”; “is he fair dinkum?”)

Dinky-di: the real thing, genuine

Dipstick: a loser, idiot

Dob (somebody) in: inform on somebody. Hence dobber, a tell-tale

Doc: Dcotor

Docket: a bill, receipt

Doco: documentary

Dog: unattractive woman

Dole bludger: Somebody on social assistance when unjustified

Doozey: something very pleasant

Down Under: Australia and New Zealand

Drink with the flies: to drink alone

Drongo: a dope, stupid person

Drum: information, tip-off (“I’ll give you the drum”)

Duffer, cattle: rustler

Dummy, spit the: get very upset at something

Dunny: outside lavatory, or toilet

Dunny budgie: blowfly

Dunny rat, cunning as a: very cunning

Durry: cigarette

 

Earbashing: nagging, non-stop chatter

Esky: large insulated food/drink container for picnics, barbecues etc.

Exy: expensive

 

Fair dinkum: True, genuine

Fair go: a chance (“give a bloke a fair go”)

Fairy floss: candy floss, cotton candy

Figjam: “F**k I’m good; just ask me”. Nickname for people who have a high opinion of themselves.

Flake: shark’s flesh (sold in fish & chips shops)

Footy: Australian Rules football

Fossicking: searching, rummaging (“fossicking through the kitchen drawers”)

Freckle: anus

Fruit loop: fool

Full: drunk

 

Galah: fool, named after the bird of the same name which flies south in the winter – a bloody silly thing to do in the Southern Hemisphere

Garbo, garbologist: municipal garbage collector

G’Day, Gidday: hello!

Give it a burl: try it, have a go

Good oil: useful information, a good idea, the truth

Good on you: good for you, well done

Greenie: environmentalist

Grog: liquor, beer (“bring your own grog, you bludger”)

Grouse (adj.): great, terrific, very good

Gyno: gynaecologist

 

 

Handle: beer glass with a handle

Heaps: a lot, e.g. “thanks heaps”, “(s)he earned heaps of money” etc.

Hoon: hooligan

Hooroo: goodbye (© Don Burke)

Hotel: often just a pub

Hottie: hot water bottle

 

Icy pole: popsicle, lollypop

 

 

Jackaroo: a male station hand (a station is a big farm/grazing property)

Jillaroo: a female station hand

Joey: baby kangaroo

Journo: journalist

Jumbuck: sheep

 

Kelpie: Australian sheepdog originally bred from Scottish collie

Kero: kerosene

Kindie: kindergarten

Knock: to criticise

Knock back: refusal (noun), refuse (transitive verb)

Knocker: somebody who criticises

 

Larrikin: a bloke who is always enjoying himself, harmless prankster

Lippy: lipstick

Liquid laugh: vomit

Lob, lob in: drop in to see someone (“the rellies have lobbed”)

Lollies: sweets, candy

London to a brick: absolute certainty (“it’s London to a brick that taxes won’t go down”)

Loo: toilet

Lucky Country, The: Australia, where else?

Lurk: illegal or underhanded racket

 

 

 

Mate: buddy, friend

Mate’s rate, mate’s discount: cheaper than usual for a “friend”

Metho: methylated spirits

Mexican: a person from south of the (Queensland) border

Mickey Mouse: excellent, very good

Middy: 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales

Milk bar: corner shop that sells takeaway food

Milko: milkman

Mob: group of people, not necessarily troublesome

Mob: family or herd (?) of kangaroos

Mongrel: despicable person

Mozzie: mosquito

Muddy: mud crab (a great delicacy)

Mug: friendly insult (“have a go, yer mug”), gullible person

Mull: grass (the kind you smoke)

Mull up: roll a joint and smoke it

 

 

Naughty, have a: have sex

Never Never: the Outback, centre of Australia

Ninkum poop: a fool

Nipper: young surf lifesaver

No-hoper: somebody who’ll never do well

Not the full quid: not bright intellectually

Nuddy, in the: naked

 

 

Ocker: an unsophisticated person

Offsider: an assistant, helper

Oldies: parents – “I’ll have to ask my oldies”

O.S.: overseas (“he’s gone O.S.”)

Outback: interior of Australia

Oz: Australia!

 

Pash: passion, infatuation

Pav: Pavlova – a rich, creamy Australian dessert

Perve (noun & verb): looking lustfully at the opposite sex

Piker: Someone who doesn’t want to fit in with others socially, leaves parties early

Plonk: cheap wine

Pokies: poker machines, fruit machines

Polly: politician

Pom, pommy: an Englishman

Port: suitcase (portmanteau)

Postie: postman, mailman

Pot: 285 ml beer glass in Queensland

Pozzy: position – get a good pozzy at the football stadium

Prezzy: present, gift

 

Quack, or off to the quack: the doctor, or off to the doctor

Quid, make a: earn a living – “are you making a quid?”

Quid, not the full: of low IQ

 

Rage: party

Rage on: to continue partying – “we raged on until 3am”

Rapt: pleased, delighted

Raw prawn, to come the: to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable

Razzo: not worth much, another phrase is “brass razoo”

Reckon!: you bet! Absolutely!

Rego: vehicle registration

Rellie: family relative

Ridgy-didge: original, genuine

Right: okay (“she’ll be right, mate”)

Ripper: great, fantastic

Road train: big truck with many trailers

Roo: kangaroo

Root (verb and noun): synonym for f*ck in nearly all its senses: “I feel rooted”; “this washing machine is rooted”; “(s)he’s a good root”. A very useful word in fairly polite company.

Ropeable: very angry

Rotten: drunk (“I went out last night and got rotten”)

Rubbadedub: bar or hotel

Rubbish: to criticize

 

 

Salvos, the: Salvation Army, bless them

Salute, Aussie: brushing flies away

Sandgroper: a person from Western Australia

Sanger: a sandwich

Schooner: large beer glass in Queensland; small beer glass in South Australia

Scratchy: instant lottery ticket

Screamer:    1. party lover; “two pot screamer” – somebody who gets drunk on very little alcohol

2. To take a “screamer” in footy is to take an awesome mark/catch.

Servo: petrol station

Shark biscuit: somebody new to surfing

Sheila: a woman

She’ll be right: it’ll turn out okay

Shonky: dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.

Shoot through: to leave

Shout: turn to buy – a round of drinks usually (“it’s your shout”)

Sickie: day off sick from work (chuck a sickie=take the day off sick from work when you’re perfectly healthy!)

Skite: boast, brag

Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer

Sleepout: house verandah converted to a bedroom

Smoko: smoke or coffee break

Sook: person or animal who is soft, tame, inoffensive. Hence sooky (adj.)

Snag: a sausage

Spag bol: spaghetti bolognese

Spit the dummy: get very upset at something

Sprung: caught doing something wrong

Spunk: a good looking person (of either sex)

Station: a big farm/grazing property

Stick it in your kick: Stick it in your pocket

Stickybeak: nosy person

Stone the Crows: Heaven forbid!

Stuffed, I’ll be: expression of surprise

Stuffed, I feel: I’m tired

Strewth: exclamation, mild oath (“Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke”)

Strides: trousers

Strine: Australian slang and pronunciation

Stubby: a beer bottle

Stubby holder: polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby

Sunbake: sunbathe

Sunnies: sunglasses

Surfies: people who go surfing – usually more often than they go to work!

Swag: items, luggage etc. carried by a swagman

Swaggie: swagman

Swagman: tramp, hobo

 

 

 

Tall poppies: successful people

Ta muchly: thank you very much

Taswegian: a person from Tasmania

Technicolor yawn: vomit

Tee-up: to set up an appointment

Thingo: Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit

Thongs: cheap rubber backless sandals

Throne or, on the Throne: toilet or, on the toilet

Thunder box: toilet

Tickets, to have on oneself: to have a high opinion of oneself

Tinny: can of beer, small aluminium boat

Togs: swim suit

Too right!: definitely!

Top End: far north of Australia

Truckie: truck driver

True blue: patriotic

Tucker: food

Tucker-bag: food bag

Turps: turpentine, alcoholic drink

Turps, hit the: go on a drinking binge

Two up: gambling game played by spinning two coins simultaneously

 

 

Uni: university

Unit: flat, apartment

Up oneself: have a high opinion of oneself – “he’s really up himself”

Ute: utility vehicle

 

Veg out: relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable)

Vedgies: vegetables

Vejjo: vegetarian

Vee dub: Volkswagen

 

Waggin’ school: playing truant

Walkabout, it’s gone: it’s lost, can’t be found

Weekend Warriors: Army Reserve personnel

Whacko: You beauty! (an exclamation.)

Whinge: complain

White pointers on the beach: topless (female) sunbathers

Wobbly: excitable behaviour (“I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly”)

Wog: flu or trivial illness

Wombat: somebody who eats, roots and leaves (see also root)

Woop Woop: invented name for any small unimportant town – “he lives in Woop Woop”

Wowser: straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport

 

XXXX: pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland

 

 

Yabber: talk (a lot)

Yakka: work (noun)

Yanks: Americans

Yewy: u-turn in traffic (“chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights”)

Yobbo: an uncouth person

Youse: you

 

Zack: sixpence

 

 

Foster’s Gold – All’s Good.

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What’s funny about this ad is that its not made in Australia.  And, to be honest, not a lot of Aussies drink Fosters at home.  LOL.