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Great news and I'm glad to hear of anyone on the forum having sucess. A big pat on the back!!!!! 
One of the coaches at a college who talked to my daughter told her she was going to Australia to attend a softball clinic and would be out of the country for about a week and kind of made a big deal out of it. It was the last part of November or the first part of December in 2011.
Just out of curiosity if you may have known what clinic she would have attended in Australia?
One of the coaches at a college who talked to my daughter told her she was going to Australia to attend a softball clinic and would be out of the country for about a week and kind of made a big deal out of it. It was the last part of November or the first part of December in 2011.
Just out of curiosity if you may have known what clinic she would have attended in Australia?
Very good! Every time they announced her name in Oklahoma City, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at the score-board. The Aussies didn't fare as well as I expected. I felt they should have finished 3rd, but to be honest, the coach made a fatal coaching error in their last game during international tie-breaker. The Russian coach did exactly the same thing at the European Championships. I am even thinking of starting a thread to discuss it. It might be interesting to High School and youth coaches.
Well guess who put me over the fence tonight?
It's my own fault. Got 2-0 up against her, freaked slightly the hell out and then gave her a watermelon. Yeah, didn't end well Then again I'm a obese 28 year old and pitched three digs against state players, most under 20 and that was the only run scored. I'm happy!
Well guess who put me over the fence tonight?
Then again I'm a obese 28 year old and pitched three digs against state players, most under 20 and that was the only run scored. I'm happy!
Strewth! G'arn, it was Verity Long-Droppert? That would be a little ironic. Hey, avago you mug! You are the real dinky-di Lozza, not some never-never sandgroper. One run? That is absolutely grouse by my standards! I was the perennial dag! I don't mean to go all grizzly on ya, 'cause I was the 1st string SS, but a swagman as the 3rd string pitcher. I never pitched a game giving up only one run! chin up mate! We played by Rafferty's rules when I pitched!
Aren't you from Australia, or were you born here in the US? I was trying to use every Aussie slang term I ever learned in one paragraph! I failed
So was it Verity that hit the home run or someone else?Strewth=shock, or is it really true? G'arn=your kidding?, Avago you mug= performing your best, dinky-di=the real deal, never-never sandgroper=someone from the outback and a tramp, or as they say in Adelaide, a Western Australian, grouse=outstanding, dag=loser, grizzle=complain, swagman=loser, Raferty's rules=chaos!
Strewth! G'arn, it was Verity Long-Droppert? That would be a little ironic. Hey, avago you mug! You are the real dinky-di Lozza, not some never-never sandgroper. One run? That is absolutely grouse by my standards! I was the perennial dag! I don't mean to go all grizzly on ya, 'cause I was the 1st string SS, but a swagman as the 3rd string pitcher. I never pitched a game giving up only one run! chin up mate! We played by Rafferty's rules when I pitched!
Aren't you from Australia, or were you born here in the US? I was trying to use every Aussie slang term I ever learned in one paragraph! I failed
Yup. But a lot of it is very old Strine. Strewth is something you'd see Alf Stewart on Home and Away say (daily soap on Aussie TV. The Brits love it) or someone making fun of someone. G'arn I think is actually Cockney (only time I've ever heard it was in My Fair Lady) avago you mug is old fashioned. Sandgroper is a West Aussie but it's one I had forgotten : - ) grouse I hear occasionly. Dag was a tad confusing because I'd never heard it that way, swagman I've never heard that interpretation! Rafferty's Rules was a TV show in the 70s but I've honestly never heard that saying. You're more likely to hear a young Aussie say 'heaps' or something a bit more modern. A lot of that (besides dag) is not something I'd hear in every day conversation.
It was Verity that hit the home run. I knew it the second it came off the bat it was gone. Thankfully she was first up so not much harm done. We still won the dig though! (and found out the next day we won something like 22-2. Shame it wasn't money based on runs!)
Ha! Well I am going to have to change my slang! I learned some of this stuff while in Vietnam and shortly after. I had a job offer in Canberra, and I thought I should learn how to talk Aussie. I really practiced it, and I remember more Aussie slang than I remember French; and I went to the University in France. But then again, the French are more forgettable than Aussies!
Well I will empty my slang bank and start over. 22-2? Yeah, if there was money involved you could call it "Money Ball"!
Well I will empty my slang bank and start over. 22-2? Yeah, if there was money involved you could call it "Money Ball"!
