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NO Ray you guys are not that bad you just have to understand the history of Australia

A lot of our slang has it roots in Cockney Rhyming Slang (Lower East London) well because ?? I suppose cause there were lots of crims there and a lot of crims got a free ride to Australia

But back to septic

During the Second World War lots of American Servicemen made Australia their unsinkable Aircraft Carrier in the South Pacific, locally the US people were known as Yanks, left over from the little ding up you and the Brits had in 1776.

So our Rhyming logic goes like this, Yank rhymes with tank and the most common tank in Australia back then was either water or septic, calling you water was not cool so Septics it was

Septics = septic tanks = Yanks

An endearing term of affection to all those servicemen that help whoop those pesky Imperialistic Japanese of the 1940s

Kadet said:“the little ding up you and the Brits had in 1776. ”

Don't forget 1812. I'm glad everyone kissed, and made up

Ray

NiceAft wrote:Kadet said:“the little ding up you and the Brits had in 1776. ”

Don't forget 1812. I'm glad everyone kissed, and made up

Ray

Im just going to say " a whatchamacallit " and hope I can figure it out later Ron.

My dad fought with those guys in WW2 in a place called guinea or new guinea or something like that. He said he met infantrymen from Australia who did not wear helmets! (he said they had hats!) and that they would sneak up on Japanese camps at night without detection and get locations so that in the morning Mitchell bombers would blow those poor Japanese fellows into tiny bits. My dad said they would have never found the Japanese without those guys in the hats.

I believe most if not all of the coast watchers were Australian, too. Brass ones, for sure.