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Goomba38 > wrote in
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> PeterLucas wrote:
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>> Sporty!! :-)
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>> And runs on the sniff of an oily rag.

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> LOL.. clever phrase.



:-)

*Old* Aussie saying!!

Especially used when trying to sell off your old 'bomb'. "Yeah mate, she
goes like a rocket and runs off the sniff of an oily rag!!"



> Not unlike (ObFood) people who speak of just waving the vermouth cap

(Or
> having the bottle in the same room....) over the shaker when making
> martinis.
>



I'll have to try a Martini one day.

Shaken, not stirred :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

You will travel through the valley of rejection;
you will reside in the land of morning mists...and you will find your
home,
though it will not be where you left it.