Re: Bicycles et al


"timmythesaint" <timwardman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the toilet input - my favorite so far is "the chod bin", I
got that from my dissertation supervisor and it comes from 18th
century England! Nice!

Tim

This is probably broadening the terms of reference of your research too far,
but here is some aussie slang for going to the toilet

point percy at the porcelain, shake hands with the wife's best friend, have
a slash, take a crap, have a piss, do a number one or two (poo)


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