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February 03, 2007
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Samizdata quote of the day
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Humour • Slogans/quotations

Spring onions are spring onions (or scallions). Aussies might have recently beat us at a pointless activity (it isn't sport if you can do it in a chunky-knit tank-top) but they lag well beyond the Northern Hemisphere in the recognition of common-place veggies. And your water goes down the plug-hole the wrong way round... And that's moral turpitude that is, not the Coriolis effect.

- Commenter Nick M

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Nick will be probably trying to convince me that a thong is something other than an item of footwear, next.


Posted by Michael Jennings at February 4, 2007 01:15 AM

That shallot.


Posted by Dane at February 4, 2007 01:18 AM

It's just jealousy.


Posted by Chris Harper at February 4, 2007 03:01 AM

OK, I seem to have missed the news. The Aussies beat us at something involving knit tank tops and a variety of . . . onions?

No matter. I LOVE the coriolis effect. Isn't that what causes those fine Aussie women to wear their thongs wrong way 'round?


Posted by CFM at February 4, 2007 03:57 AM

How do you wear footwear the wrong way round?

Don't even get them started on the subject of dropbears.


Posted by Julian Taylor at February 4, 2007 09:54 AM
Don't even get them started on the subject of dropbears.
What? Is it a crime to expose the excessively credulous?
Posted by James Waterton at February 4, 2007 10:33 AM

James is about to be taken to the horrible inland holding camp for people who doubt dropbears. He will not be seen here again.


Posted by Michael Jennings at February 4, 2007 11:44 AM

A rather dishy woman friend of mine was appalled that when I visited Mauritius last year for my honeymoon, I did not check to see how the water went into the plughole.

Amazing what some folk get interested in.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at February 4, 2007 11:50 AM

Sybies. Spring onions are sybies (to all right-thinking people).


Posted by dearieme at February 4, 2007 06:14 PM
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