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Malc

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2007, 02:15:29 PM »
Oh alright, I'll Google Moodloo Man, and then I'll know, but I won't be happy, I'll warn you now. Bastards.

peter

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2007, 01:32:53 PM »
Oh alright, I'll Google Moodloo Man, and then I'll know, but I won't be happy, I'll warn you now. Bastards.
aboriginal word for sandman

Malc

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2007, 06:03:03 PM »
Never heard of that word or meaning here in Oz.
Mooloo men were half men half bull-like creature in Maori folklore, but that's the nearest I could get.

Woolloomooloo is a district of Sydney and there were all sorts of debates as to which aboriginal word(s) it stemmed from until a researcher discovered there was a windmill on the site and that the aborigines couldn't pronounce the word "windmill", hence woolloomooloo.

The famous Nullarbor plain which stretches across southern Australia doesn't have an aboriginal name either. "Nullarbor" is Latin -Null Arbor, which means "no trees".

There's a terrorist leader called Mullah Dadullah. I often thought he should live in Ulladulla. People would meet his relatives overseas and say "are you related to the Ulladullah Dadullahs?
They'd reply "wish I had adullah for every time I've been asked that".

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2007, 06:56:23 PM »
Spectacular, Malc, spectacular!

peter

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2007, 09:15:24 PM »
Oh alright, I'll Google Moodloo Man, and then I'll know, but I won't be happy, I'll warn you now. Bastards.
aboriginal word for sandman
Sorry it should be sandhill
As The Australian Race by John Warren
The words of the Umbetana Tribe
akie
You obviously have a new thesurus that does not have old books in it

Malc

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Re: And I'd Like To Thank....
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2007, 04:18:59 AM »
No, my old thesaurus only has words in. Kids today have got everything.