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Posted by Leonard Blaisdell on 07/24/06 02:15
In article <kc1172nydp3x$.dlg@markparnell.com.au>,
Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote:
> Eh? That's a new one to me. Around here a barkie is a (naturally) curled
> up piece of bark which can be smoked. Very cool if you're 13 or so. :-)
Hmm. I know a couple who visited Oz for a year, twenty five years ago.
One said that when their hostess answered the door on a stop, she said
"I'll get Bob! He's in the backyard frolicking among the barkies". Since
my friends saw dog poop in the yard, it's possible that they
misinterpreted.
Nevertheless! Don't you think dog poop 'ought' to be called barkies?
I've been wrongly using it for nigh on twenty years ;-)
leo
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