Grant wrote:

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:11:31 -0400, "Oppie" wrote:

"ian field" wrote in message
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The lamp is in the bog, so I'm not worried about it interfering with
remotes.

On this side of the pond, bog is a wet swampy area. Does it have the same
meaning in the UK?

Could be the backyard dunny, or, what one dumps there

"May your chooks turn into emus and kick ya dunny door down!" An emu is
an Aussie bird that doesn't fly, but eye level is about the same as an
adult, so they're quite large, with big brown eyes. Not common where I
live, but lots of them in some places further inland. Mostly I meet them
in a zoo. Out in the wild they tend to walk away if one gets too close.

Always a bit interesting to see how our vocabularies have differently
evolved even though we have the same roots. A while back, someone asked
about a torch. I knew that it was what we would call a flashlight but it had
others very confused.

I always wondered why a 'flashlight' didn't flash? Turns on and off
just like an ordinary battery torch does


Real flashlights do flash, when you push and release the button.


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