Talk:Wowser

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Who is "Lana Doyle"? Joyous | Talk 23:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Probably not Inspector Gadget. 204.52.215.107 19:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

NPOV?
How about a description that isn't offensive to cultures, communities, countries, and religions that don't find these things problematic: "...laws that restricted obscenity and juvenile smoking, raised the age of consent, limited gambling, closed down many pubs..."

24.17.178.36 (talk) 21:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * the text is a straight-forward description of what they did, based on the cited work of a leading scholar. Is there a culture that finds historical facts like these to be offensive? I doubt it. Rjensen (talk) 22:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Haradine et al.
I just removed "In recent years, the term has been most often applied to morality-oriented politicians Steve Fielding, Stephen Conroy, Fred and Elaine Nile, and Brian Harradine." It obviously someone trying to score political points. I use the word all the time, and I don't recall ever calling any one of those lot. 61.69.3.70 (talk) 02:46, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

From a review of Fred Nile's autobiography in the Australian Review of Public affairs "his public image is of a wowser who advocates draconian punishments". This seems supportive that the view that Fred Nile is considered by some a wowser 150.101.179.129 (talk) 00:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Euphenism for pudenda
In mid-20th century slang wowser was a euphenism for a woman's bush. There are literary sources but this would have to be researched Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 15:09, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

obsolete US interjection
This word is obsolete in the US, and the article should say so. It would also be good to include the range of years when the word was commonly used in the US as an interjection (some portion of the 1900s?). And we would like to know if there is actually any connection between use as interjection and the Australian word. Perhaps not? Seems like just separate, playful variation of the basic interjection WOW. -71.174.185.30 (talk) 13:31, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * "Americans rarely use the word, except as an interjection of surprise."