Originally Posted by
Thirsty
Evening flight Brisbane to Townsville. Sometimes in the 1980's. Airline was TAA. Flight is very full, screaming babies and bogan school holiday travellers returning home with thongs and smelly feet.
For the benefit of non-Australian readers, "thong" used to be the regular Australian term for what are elsewhere known as flip-flops, or Jandals in NZ. It still causes me problems.