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Old 26th Jan 2007, 07:12
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Whiskey Oscar Golf
 
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Ahh BSD, thankyou for proving my point. According to the Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms by G.A. Wilkes, a bogan is "anyone stupid, square or a nerd" It goes further to say " Bogans mostly live in the western suburbs of Melbourne (sunfish leave it alone) and in some particularly dead country towns. They carry baseball bats and wear flannelette, red checked shirts. For entertainment, they get drunk or high and beat up yuppies and big watch, serengeti wearing pilots" My italics. This was published in todays West Australian Liberal. It also comes from the Gaelic, meaning Dirty.
I can understand your fear BSD we are often afraid of what we don't understand. I hope that EWL is tooling along some lonely Tasmanian road one day and the GPS in the Audi craps out and he asks his bogan family man for directions who promptly sends him into the ocean. Somehow I think bogan family man will be kinder to EWL than EWL was to him, but hey you can't buy kindness.
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