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“As it usually does when multi-agencies are involved - all duckshoving cases to one another.”
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Strine
Australianisms & other Oz-related vocabulamary.
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
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frogapplause Hey, dontcry... what about that recipe?!! Apr 18, 2009
frogapplause I forgot about this page. Apr 18, 2009
sionnach Mmm. Tasty turducken. Jun 25, 2008
dontcry frogchild - I agree! In fact, I'm not a fan of duck at all, but there is this recipe somewhere, (probably some southern US cookbook) that calls for multiple fowl stuffings. I'll look for it.
In the meantime, remember to "save the liver!" Jun 25, 2008
frogapplause Why must duckshoving be restricted to bird-on-bird action? I can think of other tasty foods to shove into a duck. Jun 25, 2008
dontcry Thanks, frogg-o! Actually, I didn't want to be too gross at first, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to shove a smaller yet bird up the duck....maybe a game hen? Jun 25, 2008
frogapplause Unless there's an actual culinary term for "duckshoving", I plan to adopt dontcry's meaning. Good one, dc! Jun 24, 2008
dontcry froggyloo - thanks for the clarification! Certainly not as gruesome as shoving one bird up another. Not as funny.....but not as gruesome. Jun 24, 2008
frogapplause The Macquarie Dictionary records several meanings for the expression duckshoving including: “using unfair methods�?; being unscrupulous or dishonest; “evading your responsibilities by passing them to someone else�?; or (in the case of taxi drivers) “soliciting passengers along the roadside, rather than waiting in turn at a rank�?. And that last definition seems to be original. Duckshove is first recorded in The Australian National Dictionary from 1870 to describe the pushy behaviour of Melbourne cab drivers. It seems to have grown out of observations of ducklings, waddling in an orderly queue behind mother duck. The idea is that there’s always one little duck that is pushy, and elbows the others aside to get what it wants. If that is correct, then it means that the original duckshoving was actually done by ducks – from where it extended to human behaviour that involves “elbowing others�?.
--ABC New Radio, Wordwatch Jun 24, 2008
rookinherrookery Punchy, very punchy. Jun 24, 2008
bilby Farmyard Tips #3097: Do not attempt this with live animals. Jun 24, 2008
dontcry Is this where you stuff a turkey with a duck? Jun 24, 2008