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Article #12Re: *Sterilized* exotic reptiles any threat to Australia?
From: Rod Speed
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 00:00
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Myk Rushton <permaculture@wave.co.nz> wrote in message news:7tj0n7$pr9$1@news.wave.co.nz... > Just lurking as normal but feel a correction is in order You havent managed any 'correction', you've just run a tiny minority view. > Rod Speed <rod.speed@usa.net> wrote >> Yeah, specially all those damned poms. > Rod Speed <rod.speed@usa.net> wrote >> missy <nonya@business.com> wrote >>> Sorry to be so ignorant in Aussie slang...but what in the world is a 'pom' >> A 'person' from england, or more strictly britain. > Pom, is spelt POHM, Wrong. Have a look at the Macquarie Dictionary for example. > it is an acronym for Prisoner Of Her Majesty. Thats just one of the claimed derivations. > I'm from England, We each have our cross to bear. > that makes me a Limey. And a pom. > Work it out for yourself who the real pohms are :-) You poms.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102c27,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gid102c27,public X-Google-Thread: fe8ed,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8ed,public X-Google-Thread: feea0,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gidfeea0,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 100cf6,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gid100cf6,public X-Google-Thread: 1062c1,f1945e0e055c2eca X-Google-Attributes: gid1062c1,public From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed@usa.net> Subject: Re: *Sterilized* exotic reptiles any threat to Australia? Date: 1999/10/08 Message-ID: <7tj8r5$qah$1@news1.mpx.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 534104899 References: <37F9A852.D815924@nospam.com> <7tchnq$9u4$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <37FAE377.2BA18D68@nospam.com> <aSCK3.4777$lE.27527@ozemail.com.au> <q1DK3.4780$lE.27064@ozemail.com.au> <7tevdv$jkd$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <ZbFK3.34788$ei1.59661@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <7tf7ol$gl9$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <QMFK3.34813$ei1.59971@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <7HHK3.1706$eM4.143211@typ11.nn.bcandid.com> <7tfuku$of5$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <7tj0n7$pr9$1@news.wave.co.nz> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mpx.com.au X-Trace: news1.mpx.com.au 939337381 26961 198.142.197.39 (7 Oct 1999 23:03:01 GMT) Organization: The Grunge X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Oct 1999 23:03:01 GMT Newsgroups: sci.bio.herp,sci.bio.ecology,aus.pets,aus.politics,aus.legal,rec.pets.herp