#column 8

[timegents]

Snippets from Sydney's drinking past

Snippets from Sydney’s drinking past

THE Sydney Morning Herald’s Column 8, penned by “Granny”, often featured interesting and sometimes amusing snippets of pub information during the 1940s and 50s… Here are a selection…

CAN’T WIN. They’re telling this tale around the city of a fellow’s effort to get a glass of beer. He asked the barmaid for a middy. “Have you got a glass?” she asked. “No,” he said. “Then I can’t serve you,” said…

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[blissrambleson]

Stolen from Column 8

Column 8 As a comment on our long-running examinations of English language variations, Richard Murnane offers a much-quoted insight from one James Nicholl, who wrote: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

[spanieleyes]

"Australian born, Australian bred, strong in the arm and wick in the head, terribly forward, awfully rude, beastly familiar but confoundedly shrewd."