Don’t you just hate it when you don’t have an English to English dictionary? Mark Twain once said something pithy about that, but it probably doesn’t translate well.
I think that the MP crew were actually the ones that created this with their ‘Bruce’ skit, although Bruce was a very common name in Australia back in the 60-70’s. Unless Barry Humphries or Barry Crocker did something involving the name that I haven’t heard – quite possible. I just reckon the MP crew were introduced to a bunch of Aussies at some stage and a number of them were possibly called Bruce – then they enhanced it somewhat (as they tend to do). Or perhaps, being from the West and not always being privvy to such things, it is an old Eastern States in-joke?
But the ‘ginger’ bit follows on from the great tradition of calling something exactly as we see it here: like ‘Slim’ for the overweight bloke, ‘Snow’ for the jet black dog, ‘Shorty’ for the 6’5" fellow. Quite common here.
ottod Premium Member over 12 years ago
Don’t you just hate it when you don’t have an English to English dictionary? Mark Twain once said something pithy about that, but it probably doesn’t translate well.
ozkanga over 12 years ago
I think that the MP crew were actually the ones that created this with their ‘Bruce’ skit, although Bruce was a very common name in Australia back in the 60-70’s. Unless Barry Humphries or Barry Crocker did something involving the name that I haven’t heard – quite possible. I just reckon the MP crew were introduced to a bunch of Aussies at some stage and a number of them were possibly called Bruce – then they enhanced it somewhat (as they tend to do). Or perhaps, being from the West and not always being privvy to such things, it is an old Eastern States in-joke?
But the ‘ginger’ bit follows on from the great tradition of calling something exactly as we see it here: like ‘Slim’ for the overweight bloke, ‘Snow’ for the jet black dog, ‘Shorty’ for the 6’5" fellow. Quite common here.
K M over 12 years ago
I’m reminded of the typical knock on UK-US relations: Two great peoples separated by a common language…