Re: Aussie joke

jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Stephen Calder wrote:
Richard Bollard wrote:

I found this funny and wondered how regional this joke might be.

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Two drovers standing in a bar. One asked, "What are you up to?"

"Ahh. I'm takin' a mob of 6000 from Goondiwindi to Gympie."

"Oh yeah and what route are you takin'?"

"Ah, prob'ly the Missus; after all, she stuck by me durin' the
drought."

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Comments?

Local, I'd say. The kiwis might laugh.

To my knowledge root in this sense is unknown outside Australasia.
...

Unused, as far as I know, but not unknown. I got it, after a moment's
thought. It's possible, though, that I learned this meaning here.
We've had some discussion of whether the panda eats shoots and leaves,
or eats roots and leaves.

The original gag was 'roots'; Truss bowdlerised it.

DC. Then Bowdler trussed it...
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