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Aussie (France) IX Dec. 19/2: The big Melbourne Show is in sight, and it’s going to be a ‘Dry’ Show. That means that the visitors can’t ask each other, ‘Can you stop one?’ or ‘Can you keep one down?’ or ‘What about it?’ or ‘Let’s kill a dog.’. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 14/2: A man could multiply instances where bluff failed to work abso-bloomin’-lutely. In fact, you’ll find that the Shrewdies who try to get along in the army by bluff and guff generally crash in the end. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 14/2: He told us how he’d been adrift disguised as a sky-pilot for three weeks and was having the time of his life. Aussie (France) 5 June 15/2: So mine’s the shout, and before ‘lights out,’ / Just sink a pint or two with me – / A ‘dorris an’ deoch’ in a bottle o’ Bock, / (One for ‘Uncle George,’ another for ‘Jock’). Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 16/2: ‘Three kilos., be blowed!’ put in a Lance-Jack. ‘It’s fully six. I did it last week coming back from leave.’ ‘Pig’s ear to that!’ exclaimed another Digger. ‘It’s not more than one kilo. I did it going on leave.’. Aussie (France) 6 Aug. 1/1: What’s this the Babbling Brook has given me – tea or stew? Aussie (France) 7 Sept. 4/2: [W]e have a bloke I’d back as a banjo-swinger against any cove in the A.I.F. He’s the daddy of ’em all, and no matter how hot the day is, he never raises a sweat. [...] [H]e shovels so fast he can work in the shade of the muck he shifts. Aussie (France) 4 Apr. 9/2: Older than you by half a generation, / More tied, perhaps, by health or home or kin, / They did not barge into the desolation / Until they felt that duty called them in. Aussie (France) VII Sept. 8/1: We went to an Estaminet to celebrate the great occasion, and ordered a bottle of ‘point blank’ and I drank his health and he drank my health. [Ibid.] Dec. 3/2: The proceeds were to be used to buy beer or ‘point blank’ for all members. Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 14: A man could multiply instances where bluff failed to work abso-bloomin’-lutely. Aussie (France) 4 Apr. 2/2: This was the cause of an embarrassing misunderstanding in Piccadilly Circus by a ‘three-pip turn’ on Blighty leave, when an old lady blew up to him and said: ‘Excuse me, sir; can you tell me where I can get a No. 9?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ replied the three-pipper, absent-mindedly, ‘go on sick-parade in the morning.’. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 6/1: ‘Want to get blown up?’ it asked. / I am proficient in the Aussie language, but was at a loss to know exactly whether this question referred to inflation, a carpet lecture, or an explosion. Aussie (France) 9 Dec. 1/1: A ‘bushed’ Digger blew up to a stationary car containing a Fourth Divvy Staff Colonel, one night at Cappy, with: ‘Hey, Nugget, can you tell me the way to Divvy Headquarters?’. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 14/1: I’ve noticed that those clever Shrewdies always come gutzers at the finish. They find the bluff stakes so dead easy, so they think, that they become careless. Aussie (France) Apr. 2/1: And I tell yer it’s a bonzor w’en we’re feeling cold and stunned / And we trudges for our issue ter the little ‘Comforts Fund’ [AND]. Aussie (France) 5 June 4/2: You can laugh if you like, but she was a bonza. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 14/2: Again, the last time I was over in Blighty I got clinked for emphasising an argument with a Jack. In the boob next morning they were sorting out the sore and sorry when in came a parson pot with a couple of Emma-Pips. Aussie (France) VII Sept. 11/2: And the villages are dead or deserted, and there isn’t any chance to make fun. We’d enjoy ourselves more up the line boxing on with the savage Hun. Aussie (France) 5 June 4/2: I remembers what you told me about them girls, who take a bloke down and do a break with his dough. Aussie (France) VII Sept. 6/1: Opportunity came one morning when he was carpeted for being absent from early parade. Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 6/1: ‘Want to get blown up?’ it asked. / I am proficient in the Aussie language, but was at a loss to know exactly whether this question referred to inflation, a carpet lecture, or an explosion. Aussie (France) 9 Dec. 1/2: You could have knocked those Tommies’ eye-balls off with a stick when we produce the cases of cham. Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 3/1: Offence: Being chatty and refusing to scratch. [...] Punishment Awarded: Bath and clean (?) change at Divvy Baths. Aussie (France) 4 Apr. 10/1: I uster [...] chip in at a two-up school, an’ w’en I’d got good ’oof fer the shrap. imshee off to the jestaminnet an’ cut it out that way. Aussie (France) VII Sept. 7/1: ‘Here, take a pull, Yank, this is my circus,’ interrupted Dinkum. Aussie (France) 9 Dec. 3/1: [M]y cobber and I were taking a stroll when two nice bits of fluff blew along. They showed signs that they were not averse to relieving the loneliness of two homeless soldiers from overseas; so after the usual preliminaries we successfully clicked. Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 14/2: Again, the last time I was over in Blighty I got clinked for emphasising an argument with a Jack. In the boob next morning they were sorting out the sore and sorry when in came a parson pot with a couple of Emma-Pips. Aussie (France) 6 Aug. 13/2: And, lo, he smoketh his master’s cigarettes and recks not of the tribulation to come and sometimes he cometh a gutzer. For his master counteth the coffin screws and they are short in the count. Aussie (France) VII Sept. 7/1: If you were stiff, you could be sure that he would come to light – when he had the necessary. But this latter seldom lasted more than forty-eight hours after the ghost had walked. Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 16/1: ‘I’ve got a cushy job, have I!’ snapped the Postal Orderly at the Battalion’s champion lead-swinger.