Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

On 3/13/06, Sai Emrys <sai@...> 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?"
> >
> > > However, it does bring the follow-up,
> > > "...He just smiled, and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," to mind.
>
> ... I don't get it.

Pop culture thing.  In the '80s there was a musical group from
Australia called "Men at Work" who had a hit song called "Down Under".
 The song told the story of an Australian man traveling the world and
finding comfort in familiar things found in strange places - said
familiarity taking the form of, basically, a series of Australian
stereotypes. :)  The verse in question runs like this:

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak my language?"
And he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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