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Originally posted by wellard:
"Strewth! have a go ya mug" <--- my fave saying
My oldest gets called Bluey sometimes, cause he has red hair of course! 
Just to let you know skippy, many 'Ozisms' are back in fashion big time, in Sydney at least. Not in a piss take fashion but in a real reclaim our heritage way. Is the cultural cringe truely dead? I hope so
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That's great news! Remember in my apprentice days working with this old bloke who used to have a little moan at me about the way the Aussie language was suffering due to TV and the "American Creep" as he used to call it. Never thought much about it at the time, but as I've grown older I've realised what a unique and colourfully colloquial form of speech that we have. Instantly recognizable as Australian. Although sometimes the poms ask is it a Kiwi accent I have as they can't tell the difference. Mind you, give us a couple of more decades and I'm sure we can integrate our Kiwi Cousins.