simon ... i have an almost new, really good looking calculator at home, but the number four doesn't work. so if there is anyone out there that needs a calculator, but won't be doing any big sums with a four in them, please pm me. d
I'm sure that no offence is intended, but that's not normally seen as an endearing way to refer to our great country,
Not wanting a debate but.. Never understood the Pom thing - does it stand for 'prisoner of her majesty'? If so why am I one???
I believe it stands for Prisoner of Millbank as the ships transporting them to Australia set off from Millbank in London (Millbank being a prison at the time) It's amazing what you learn when you take a tourist bus round London
stands for 'prisoner of mother england' - its the aussies 'quite clever' and 'ironic' dig at the fact that they were the prisoners of mother england originally. I have lived in Sydney and Melbourne, so trust me i know ! You see what they done there - they reversed it on us, clever bunch !
Just done some digging on the net and it looks like we're all wrong. Various sites reckon the phrase didn't come into use until the end of the nineteenth century, well after the prison ships had stopped. The popular theory is that it is short for pomegranite which was popular rhyming slang for immigrant. It's on the internet so it must be true!
The popular theory is that it is short for pomegranite which was popular rhyming slang for immigrant. Doesn't rhyming slang have to Rhyme Graham? Pomegranite = Immigrant
Well normally yes, fortunately it's not my theory. Better have a word with those Aussies about their lack of rhyming skill
Millbank - as in Labour party HQ? Can't think of anything massively witty but there must be someone out there who can!
