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Originally Posted by MelodyL (Post 61225)

The only australian term I know is 'shrimp on the barbie" and the only real Australian actor I was familiar with was the guy who played Crocodile Dundee. I will never forget sitting in the movie theatre and the actor Paul Hogan, I believe is his name, well he was in the subway system and a bunch of gang members started taunting him with one of their little switchblade things and Paul Hogan reaches into his back pocket, and takes out this LARGE blade, looks a the gang member and "you call that a knife??".

Well, the whole audience went blind crazy nuts over that line. That was the funniest picture.

And the first time we went to the outback steakhouse and we unrolled our napkins and my knife was four times the size of the my household steakknife, I burst out laughing and immediately thought of that movie. I never saw such big steakknives in my life.

And oh, that bloomin onion. I never in all my life enjoyed a meal like a did a the Outback Steakhouse. And the steak had 7 different kinds of pepper on it. Alan needed 10 glasses of water and said "we're never coming here again". He's not a fan of pepper.

But now we eat the chicken and the salmon and the mackeral and the salads and no more bloomin onion. (Oh the dipping sauce of that bloomin onion).
I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT MEAL. !!!! It was divine.

MEL YOU MEAN YOU NEVER HEARD OF THE TERMINATOR HES FROM AUSTALIA
ARNOLD THE NOW GOV OF CALIFORNIA:cool: :)

No Doug he's no Aussie, we speak english.:D :D :D

The California Governor is from Austria, actually--

--just several letters fewer than Austrailia.

(I'm sure most Aussies don't want THAT confusion.) :p

Yeah i know Glen, he has done very well for himself over the years, good luck to him.

Doug:

I'm hysterical!!! You mean, everytime Arnold opened his mouth and said "I'LL BE BACK", you heard an australian accent??????.

Not only is he from Austria, but his last name translates to Black Plowman. I heard him say this on a show one day.

See my memory ain't so bad after all!!!!!

bye for now.

Waiting for Terminator 4

mel

..........Not only is he from Austria, but his last name translates to Black Plowman. I heard him say this on a show one day..........

I have a friend who was born in Austria, and visits relatives there regularly. He says that that is not the true translation of his last name, but that he has altered it slightly- to make it 'politically correct'.
Americans with black ancestry wouldn't like the literal one.

Hi, That got me curious so I went to his official biography on the Internet Movie Database.

Here is what it said about his name

"In German, the word "schwarzen" means "black," and "egger" means "ploughman." So "Schwarzenegger" is "Black Ploughman."

So what did he change, or shouldn't I ask? If it's that bad or inappropriate, forget I even asked.

I try to be politically correct and diplomatic. At least when I'm not beating up my husband.

Mel (lol)

the way I read it....

You know, many people have the surname Black.

Perhaps this name is derived from someone whose name was Black (Schwartz),
who was also a farmer/and used a plow.

German typically puts words together to make new words. I find it a very confusing language (which I had to take in college).

I personally don't think Black Plowman is the same as Plowman whose name is Black, are the same thing.

Using Babelfish translator I do not get any Plowman entry for the last half
of his name.

In my opinion, when you are built like Arnold Schwartzenegger, YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF ANY DARN THING YOU WANT TO CALLL YOURSELF!!

I mean, "who's going to argue with you, right?".

Let's just call him Governator. that's what they call him on tv!!!

mel