A little whisper in the dark

Ockers splashing roots

She'd come into the weekly lab meeting, bubbling and chirpy, with a sh!t-eating grin, talking about the most wonderful dream she had last night.

I turn my head, cock my ear, and by way of including myself in the conversation, said, "Hey, if its that good, I want to hear about it!"

She slid me a conspiratorial grin, and said she'd tell me later back in the office.

But then it wasn't a dream, because she told me with a straight-but-verging-on-grinning-face that she'd gotten rooted last night.

Rooted?

As it turns out, that's an Australian slang term for getting laid/making whoopee/having sex.

I guess I'm lucky in that sense, having to attend classes all the way out here in Gatton. The campus isn't as international as the main campus in St. Lucia. As a result there's perhaps 10% internationals vs. something like 50% in St. Lucia. The Australian experience is a little bit more intimate. I recently found out that the Australian equivalent for the quintessential American redneck is Ocker. Like how Crocodile Dundee, and more recently Steve Irwin is. That thick accent, the unfamiliar words - common ones like bloke (man) or sheila (woman), smoko (that's tea break), brekkie being breakfast, getting rolled is to be robbed.

But the one that really tickles me, is to "splash your boot".

Leave a comment if you're interested to find out. ;)

posted by Chung Leong @ 12:45 AM