Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 8:42 |
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At 21:25 13/03/2006, you wrote:
> > On 3/13/06, Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
> > > >On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:23:47 -0500, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...>
> wrote:
> > > > >Or maybe "Do you speak *MY* language?"
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> > > However, it does bring the follow-up,
> > > "...He just smiled, and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," to mind.
>
>... I don't get it.
It's a quote from the song "Land Down Under" by "Men at Work".
"Buying bread from a man in Brussels,
He was six foot four, and full of muscles,
I said `Do you speak my language?'
He just smiled, and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
He said...(Chorus)
'Oh, you come from a land Down Under,
Where the women glow and the men chunder.
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
You'd better run, you'd better take cover."
Vegemite is a yeast extract spread, originating in Australia. Said by its
devotees to taste much better than Marmite, but since the range of "Tastes
much better than Marmite" still encompasses "Absolutely vile", I've no
intention of trying it.
Pete
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