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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: Aussiegav on July 16, 2009, 11:24:42 am

Title: 2ndTest Lords,
Post by: Aussiegav on July 16, 2009, 11:24:42 am

Good luck you pommies.
so glad that harmison is out

Title: Re: 2ndTest Lords,
Post by: GraemeA on July 16, 2009, 11:34:00 am

You Cons will be crying once Onions gets started on you  ;)

Title: Re: 2ndTest Lords,
Post by: slackline on July 16, 2009, 11:35:38 am

Quote from: oldfella on July 16, 2009, 11:24:42 am

Good luck you pommies.
so glad that harmison is out

I've never quite understood how/why Australians call the English "Pommies".

I was told the aetiology of the word is from the acronym POM which stands for Prisoner Of his/her Majesty when I was living in Perth, which surely was the ancestors of the present day Australians, so really it is the Australians who are POM's.  Unless of course its some sort of jibe at the fact that the English are still stuck under rule (but again that doesn't make sense as until recently(-ish) Australia was part of the Commonwealth).

Scrap that Wikipedia has an alternative explanation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommies#Pommy) my curiosity has been satiated (for the time being!).