User talk:Foofbun/Archive 1

Tin soldier
Hi, I moved your recent link from the tin soldier page to the toy soldier page instead - it's proper place, since they're plastic... ;-) Greetings, --Janke | Talk 08:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC) Good thinking, Janke. I think that the plastic comic book flats are the only flat figures most Americans are familiar with. Thanks for letting me knowFoofbun (talk) 11:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Belated Welcome + Waltzing Matilda
Firstly I note no -on has welcomed you !?! - so here it is with hopefully some helpful links and tips: Welcome!

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Next ... you wrote at Talk:Waltzing Matilda: ''As a former Marine of the 1st Mar Div and an Australian I challenge the statement that 'Waltzing Matilda' is an official march of the Division. As a participant in many Division parades I have never, ever heard the tune played.''


 * I have tagged for a citation. A possible source is http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/ which has been cited elsewhere in the article.  Note that this is not an endorsed ANU page but a personal page of a member of staff (These community service pages are a joint offering of the Australian National University (which provides the infrastructure), and Roger Clarke (who provides the content). + Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology which probably does not make him an academic on this subject).
 * Clarke states: "I understand that the tune (without the words) is the marching song of the U.S. 1st Marine Division. In 2003, Col Pat Garrett USMC confirmed that it was/is played every morning immediately after The Marines Hymn ('From the Halls of Montezuma . . .') following the raising of the National colo(u)rs at 0800, and at Divisional parades. Further, 'The Division was raised at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in early 1941, and became associated with Waltzing Matilda when the Marines came to Melbourne in early 1943 for rest and refit following the successful retaking of Guadalcanal, and before it returned to combat at Cape Gloucester in New Britain in the Northern Solomons in September of that year'"
 * I would be interested in your response regards Matilda talk 22:05, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The news story on the 65th anniversary sounded reasonably official. Unfortunately the websites supporting the Marines - ie.mil - were down this morning and I couldn't check any of the links from pages put up by Marines.  That would be my preference too for a citation to support the claim.  Regards --Matilda talk 06:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I am still (last two days) having trouble accessing any of the dot mil web pages. This Google search shows several Marines web sites supporting the assertion.  The best I can do at this stage is view the Google cached versions.  For example cached version of 1st  Marine Division Band: History of Waltzing Matilda at http://www.i-mef.usmc.mil/msc/1MARDIV/band/WMHistory.htm states: "During the Second World War, the 1st Marine Division maintained a training base in Australia preparing for the island hopping campaigns. The Marines adopted the unofficial Australian National Anthem, Waltzing Matilda, as their own. Today, Waltzing Matilda is recognized as the official song of the 1st Marine Division, and is played at ceremonies and other military functions to honor those who have served in the Division."  Regards --Matilda talk 20:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Please don't recreate God Bless Australia as a mere redirect
Red links are better than redirects - thanks --Matilda talk 07:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Piping and templates
Please remember that when the article title includes an identifier, such as Tightrope (TV series), you can and should use the pipe symbol "|" just before the closing "]]" of the link. This will automatically convert the link so that although it still points to "Tightrope (TV series)", it appears to a reader as just "Tightrope". Remember, we want to show the reader the actual name of the show, not the name that Wikipedia picked for the article on that show. (The exceptions, of course, are Wikipedia's disambiguation pages, where we are trying to identify which of multiple Wikipedia articles with similar titles is the one the reader actually wants.)

Also, since you seem to work on many film and TV articles, you will probably want to learn how to use the templates imdb title and imdb name. -- 65.78.13.238 (talk) 04:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Murderbike (talk) 22:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Chesterfield Pictures
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DYK

 * So you were an American submariner?


 * Heh, that was a quick spot, not many people know my nic is synonymous with a class of US sub :)


 * No, I wasn't a subbie, but I became familiar with the class as a result of playing a great little computer game called "Silent Service II" years ago. That's not quite how I came to use the nic though, but it's really too long a story. For the record though, I just like to think my nic means "classy cat" ("gatto" means "cat" in Italian). Cheers, Gatoclass (talk) 07:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Disappearing AR-7 in popular culture
I have included a small paragraph on the AR-7 in famous motion pictures along with a still from another Wikipedia article, yet this article has been repeatedly deleted with no remarks or reasons whatsoeverFoofbun (talk) 04:23, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I suggest starting an RfC regarding whether or not the section should be in the article or not. If you need help with this, let me know.--Rockfang (talk) 07:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you considered actually reading WP:GUNS? Since the phrase "per WP:GUNS" pretty clearly means in accordance with said policy/guideline.--LWF (talk) 04:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * There are exceptions to policies and guidelines. If the above suggested RfC is created and results in a consensus to add the section to the article, then it should be.--Rockfang (talk) 07:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Dino's Anzio
The original reason I deleted The Longest Day reference is because I didn't understand what it was trying to say. Now that you've made clear what you intended...I'm still not convinced it belongs. I've checked a few reviews; Roger Ebert is the only one I can find who makes a connection between the two films, and he contrasts them - "It doesn't operate on the enormous scale of "The Longest Day." If you can find a critic who says otherwise, that's fine; otherwise, it seems to me to verge on WP:OR. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:46, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Soldier of Fortune.jpg)
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Crown International Pictures
Hi, Foofbun. I've noticed you've been working on the Crown International Pictures article. Maybe you'd like to add the company logo? Here is a copy of it. Image-uploading has gotten to be such a difficult and futile process here, I'm not up to it. But if you want to put the work into it, and risk its deletion, I think it would be nice in the article. Cheers! Dekkappai (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, Foofbun. I'm working through BCI's "Drive-In Cult Classics" DVDs, and looked in at the Crown page, thinking about working on it a little myself. (Whew! I thought They Saved Hitler's Brain was bad, until I saw The Creeping Terror! :-) I did find a couple of old newspaper articles which might help with our article on Crown. About images... the really frustrating thing is that once you get the rules figured out, they change them. I uploaded dozens of actress images when they were considered acceptable. They stayed up for about a year, then the rules changed overnight, and BOOM they were gone :-( Also, the crazy bots tag images improperly all the time, resulting in their deletion... Sometimes I think contributing to Wikipedia is like building a sandcastle. Enjoy your work for a while, then watch it erode... Oh well. Keep up the good work on Crown, and I'll try to chip in a little later. Dekkappai (talk) 08:26, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * According to their website, Crown seems to still be in business ("Over 40 Years as a Leading Force in. Independent Film Production and Distribution to the Worldwide Entertainment Industry"), but what they're doing in this post-drive-in/grindhouse world, I don't know... BCI/Eclipse seems to have a contract with them, since they're releasing so many of those old gems in such nice, clean-- and sometimes anamophic wide-screen-- presentations. I've been working mostly in Japanese exploitation films, Korean cinema, and occasional dabbling in other things, like U.S. exploitation cinema. Hey, you know your Japanese-- Your interpretation is correct. I got the name off an old Mariko Morikawa video. The name means I like them though, not that I have one (except for the (Korean) one I'm happily married to :-) Dekkappai (talk) 16:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

112th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
Howdy, I have gone ahead and removed the hangon you put on the 112th Cavalry Regiment (United States) article. As near as I can tell, no one has nominated it for speedy deletion, so the tag is unnecessary. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if I have overlooked what is going on. Many thanks and keep up the good work, it looks like it is a great article! --TeaDrinker (talk) 04:42, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks makes sense. The hangon tag actually puts the article in the category to be deleted (although it should still be reviewed being deleted).  The hangon tag, like any other tag, will remain in the article until someone removes it, but should be used to delay deletion if an article is tagged.  You're absolutely right that speedy deletions move pretty fast, too fast for many people's taste.  The best bet to keep an article from being tagged for deletion is to make sure the notability and context is clear from the first edit.  You can also use the Underconstruction tag to help indicate that you're working on the article, although such tags are often ignored if the article is very sparse.  The pace of deletions comes largely from the rapid influx of new articles, however it gives rise to a host of new problems (as you seem to have experienced).  If you have any questions or concerns, let me know and I would be happy to take a look.  Thanks again and keep up the great work!  --TeaDrinker (talk) 04:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

1st Air Commando Group
Hi there.

I am a copy editor looking to improve the above mentioned article. However I noticed on its talk page that a reviewer noted a general lack of citation and supporting material. We generally try to keep to mostly finished articles before attempting a copy-edit.

Since I am sure that we would both like to see this article reach a higher quality rating, you would not mind to finish up the unfortunate necessities of referencing and such.

Thanks for your help. -- Glubbdrubb ( talk ) 17:54, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late reply (the real world interrupts) but I have hopefully addressed some of your questions back on my talk page. -- Glubbdrubb  ( talk ) 12:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Archive
You might want to use WerdnaBot- for a quick solution, just put at the top of your talk page. Logan | Talk 23:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem! Logan | Talk 00:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

re: 1st Air Commando
Hello Mr Smith. I have been receiving letters from a Mr Glubbdrubb on the article on the 1st Air Cdo Grp saying it needs references. I'm rather mystified as I have quite a few with the article. Could you assist please? Thank youFoofbun (talk) 23:38, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the message. You may wish to consider contacting Skinny87, who is our resident airborne warfare expert: he's much better informed than I am.  Roger Davies  talk 11:24, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the referral, Roger! Foofbun, i'm not familiar with the Commando, but I'll have a look through my sources as soon as I can and get back to you on the matter :) Skinny87 (talk) 12:52, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid to say that an initial search through my library is yielding very little, but I do have something of a British bias in that library - American books are more expensive :) However, please don't think I've given up, because I like a challenge. So I'll cast my net wider and get back to you a little later. Skinny87 (talk) 17:16, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
You are the first person, other than myself, to add a listing to List of films based on war books since the entire thing was 30K in size. At that time, all of World War II was in one table with around 20 or 25 films in it.

Feel free to add more.

That French author, Lartéguy, his daughter is quite the looker. Used to be anyway.

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 07:42, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Piracy
Actually, could I ask your opinion?

Right now, the sea battle in Ben Hur doesn't fit anywhere. I'm thinking about handling that with a piracy page, piracy being non-state quasi-warfare. How does that sound?

In cases where the piracy is at the state level, Barbary Coast or the Spanish responding to English privateering, then that's real war on a war page like now. But there would then be a spot for Ben Hur, and for traditional Spanish Main movies.

How does that strike you?

Varlaam (talk) 08:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Piracy again
Thanx for the kind words, I was surprised to find the list as some wars, like WWII would be pretty giant in size.

As for my opinion on including the sea fight in Ben-Hur (I prefer the silent one way more than the sound one), that may not be such a good idea. I haven't read General Wallace's book so have no information to an actual historical event. Also the sequence is fairly small in the main plot of things, like including a brief war sequence in a book whose primary narrative that has little to do with the war itself.Foofbun (talk) 10:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I prefer silent BH as well. I think I may even have an old IMDb review to that effect. I wrote a lot of those 10 years ago.


 * I have read Gen. Wallace's book but it was a couple of decades ago. It's really quite good in my opinion. More religious than the films, in keeping with his era. A surprising thing: The dirty trick of the nasty blades on the chariot wheels. In the book, Ben-Hur pulls that trick on the villain, not the other way around. The book gets more into the distinction between the Jewish and Christian notions of Messiah. That's eased over in the films. A key difference then: In the films, there is no reason for BH to be wealthy. He could be middle class and get into trouble. His loyal servant looks after his investments while he's away so now he's stinkin' rich. But "money doesn't buy happiness" is all it amounts to in the movies. In the book, BH sees Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, so BH uses all that money to be the financier of the Messiah's Army. But then somehow, I don't remember, he figures out that Jesus is a different style of Messiah. I think the silent one deals with this a little bit?


 * But, anyway, the Heston version has one of the most exciting ancient sea battles. So to me that's worth noting somehow. I was going to check Wallace's text to see if he cites a specific enemy power.


 * I understand your "brief sequence" argument. But I'm working on a page that's ambitiously trying to encompass everything. So if two farmers are in a field talking about the war in 1943, that's not good enough for inclusion because there are too many WWII movies already.


 * But only WWII and maybe WWI fall into the "too many already" category. If it was two peasants in period costume talking about the War of the Polish Succession, and that derived from a great novel, then to me that's good enough. Obscure wars warrant looser criteria.


 * I like to visit Mexico City every year. (Friends there.) I figure a film/book combo for the Mexican War of Independence (1810) would be a piece of cake. But I don't have one yet. I have a bag of popcorn here with a hero of that war on the bag (Father Morelos the Insurgent brand popcorn). But a film, no.


 * Which city are you in, by the way?


 * Varlaam (talk) 23:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto)

Sgt W.F. Hacking
Are you interested in helping out at Czech Republic – Iceland relations and Belgium–Mexico relations? The articles are up for deletion for not having enough sources, your research skills would be helpful in contributing reliable sources. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

You're in Syd!?!?!?!?
You are making me homesick!!!!!!!!

I lived in Oz for a couple of months in 1988. We were working on software with people at the Conservatorium. I lived in the penthouse in the building in the Botanical Gardens (cockies waking us up every morning!), and walked to my office every day in a tower on Bennelong Point close to the Opera House. When I looked out of the staff tearoom window, I could see the Royal Yacht Britannia which was moored there on Circular Quay. I walked over the Harbour Bridge to Kirribilli at lunch one time.

Then I went backpacking. Cairns and Port Douglas. Alice and Uluru. Brisbane for Expo. Back to Syd where I stayed at a backpackers in the Cross! That was a bit of a step down, as you can imagine. But I had to pay for it myself, that's why.

Then I went to Kiwiland (where I first met an old girlfriend, Monica), Fiji, California, and home.

Can you get Victoria Bitter? Are you drinking one now? And Cooper's Stout? And Toohey's Hunter Old Ale? I wish I could get a schooner of that here, mate.

Oz is the best.

Flavoured milk. No one else in the world does flavoured milk.

And Hungry Jack's. Burgers with beetroot. That is so weird!

You are so lucky.

And Strine! I don't mean to be a stickybeak, but is that a crowd of galahs across the room?

Varlaam (talk) 05:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto, which is definitely not Sydney) I Oz.

The 'm' word
You're kidding. Really? I'm just using it the way my m... friends used it there. And they were mostly classical music 'cello and piano types from the Con. Riffraff would not describe them.


 * The M word is used by 1)Strangers 2)Drunks and Junkies who've forgotten your name 3)sailors 4)male prostitutes looking for clients 5)people trying to suck up to you (see#4) and as I said, Loyalty over the Law types. It's also one of those words like 'like', 'uh' & 'you know' where if you hear it from the same person over three times in 30 seconds you realise the person is not one you wish to listen to

Anyway, you now know who to contact the next time you are up Ontario way.
 * That would be fun, I'll let you know

In your honour, since I'm "talking" to you, I had Vegemite on my toast this morning. And do you know how hard it is to buy V. here? In fact, I recall that my IMDb review of The Lighthorsemen mentions V. and that was a decade ago, before I had trained myself to like the stuff. Clearly, Oz got under my skin. I learned to like Vegemite after I lived there. I did in fact plan to move back there in the '80s but it didn't happen.
 * It's like your 10W40 to me. You could try Oxo or Marmite.  Like Brylcreem, 'a little dab'll do ya'
 * Fine film, the director addressed my NSW Military Historical Society before release

CBD. I don't recognize that acronym. It is reminding me of the QVB though suddenly.
 * Central Business District, well done sir, the Queen Victoria Building is right there.

When we (boss + me) first arrived in Syd, the penthouse was occupied by some other VIP, a violinist I think. I mean "I reckon". So I got to bunk with a conducting student at her parents' house in one of the suburbs. The house had a long history where it had been an insane asylum at one point. And her father, I had never seen so many opera CDs outside of a shop. But the parents were globetrotting, and this odd girl was in charge. So when we got a heavy rain, the swimming pool was not draining, and it was about to flood the garden with chlorinated water, so the Canadian, on his like first day in Australia, is rigging up a siphon system to drain the pool.
 * In the late 18th early 19th Century being crazy was like winning the lotto, you could live with water views in Callan Park

But when I lived at that house, I got to take the ferry to the office. That was cool.

Queen's York Rangers, 1st American Regiment. My cousin, a girl, played in their band before she moved to Yellowknife, North West Territories. Work reassignment.
 * Small world!!!They gave me a badge and I sadly lost it

St. James Bond. Where the heck is that? Now, it would have been a United Church. Canada is the first country where the Methodists et al. united. Australia followed our lead but chose "Uniting", I don't know why. I distinctly remember the first time I noticed a "Uniting" Church in Sydney. I'm baptized Anglican, but we attended United, because the Anglicans in our neighbourhood were unfriendly, so say my parents.
 * Check out Mr Wikipedia's St. James-Bond Church

Odd you mention Lazenby since I ran Secret Service with the commentary maybe 2 days ago. (I rarely "watch" anything. I'm updating my Wiki page, whilst "noise" plays in the background.) That's my favourite Bond of course. And please note that Canadian spelling of favourite. Australians were under the impression that we were more Americanized than we are. Australians expected us to say zee, God forbid, instead of zed.
 * Well done sir. My idea of biggest film tragedy is that Peter Hun,t Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot (maybe Jean Pierre Aumont has her Dad?) didn't make OHMSS for a Xmas 1966 release.  Well done on the spelling sir.  The advantage of Print on Demand books the publisher won't change your spelling or replace your prejudices with theirs

Empire Air Scheme. That's really how you term it there? We say "Commonwealth Air Training Plan". I think the acronym is BCATP. (I provided the couple of references to it at the IMDb, back when I was still a Top Contributor to the IMDb. If you are such a person, you are notified that you are.) Ottawa during the War. Ottawa was probably a pretty sleepy place then. My Aussie uncle David is a flying doctor, but no RAAF, RCAF or RAF in the family. A remote UK relation was a British Army major in Iraq. My grandfather was imprisoned by the Austrians in WWI. An uncle was one of those Polish cavalrymen who confronted the German tanks. And another very remote relative drove a Red Army tank into Czechoslovakia in '68. That family history is pretty hazy.
 * Yes indeed.
 * It was, he said they trained at the same airport as it only had one civilian flight a week
 * I've a friend I march with on Anzac Day whose Dad was Polish and fought the Russians, was in the Polish Air Force, briefly flew with the French then was in the RAF's Polish Squadron

Kotcheff I have never met. Here he is appreciated for Duddy Kravitz. Oz has way more films to feel good about than we do. Kravitz is one of our better ones. In spite of the 90% US cast. Wake In Fright I have never seen. Please advise if good. http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/film/wake-in-fright--again/2009/06/10/1244313186954.html I've an Aussie friend who lived in Northern Sweden late '60's early '70's who found the people and lifestyle similar to the Outback in many regards
 * Kotcheff called it 'his first Canadian film'

Great State? Presumably, NSW? I really don't think I've heard that.


 * State Theatre (Sydney)

Hot dogs. Maybe. Yours are so different. I remember I had one at a footie match with my m.... friend Pete. Eastern Suburbs Roosters vs. Manley Beach Sea Eagles. "C'mon, you chooks!!!" You can guess which side Pete supported. I was impartial. Like Switzerland. Shandies. People, other than me, don't really know them here. But paternal Grandpa was from the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. (Other Grandpa was from Przemysl, now in Poland.) I make them but I literally know no one else who does. The place where they're really popular is France. I suddenly can't remember the French word for shandy. Brain! Where are you? Draught is "pression". They also like shandies with a shot of flavoured syrup. I don't think there is an English word for that. In French it's called a "monaco" maybe?? Unless monaco means shandy.
 * I also do not like sport and the wife made me bodyguard her to Manly Sea Eagles playing the Grand Final. I read my book.  Unlike School you don't have one side of the stadium for one side and the other for your side so you don't have the same energy and cheers in the stands...
 * I know German is 'Radler'; I'll have to check that out. I love 'Number 1' lager in New Caledonia.  I love the French putting the mint syrup in the Perrier

VB not bitter. Well, try to distinguish Canadian "lager" from "ale" from "beer". Lotsa luck. Even we have trouble. Here I tend to drink Ex which is called an ale. Americans love Ex, where it is called Molson Ale. Speckled Hen I've had here, but was not so crazy about. Fine. I'll give it another go. I drank a lot of "warm" beer in England with Monica who was Kentish. To me, drinking beer ice cold is all about masking poor flavour by numbing one's taste buds. The same reason Coke must be ice cold because it's ghastly otherwise. Oh, and Monica was ex-Army. My only ex-Army ex-girlfriend. She told me why we salute officers. We are not saluting the officer, we are saluting the Queen from whom the officer received his commission. I didn't know that.
 * Yes, not the best but the only British Ale they had on draught
 * Exactly. Same with too spicy food, covers the taste of the spoiled meat

Cooper's Stout was so good it was precisely the sort of thing that they would stop manufacturing if it were being done here. I had it on the sailboat. We sailed up to the Opera House and viewed it from the water that day.

Tazzie I wanted to visit. But no, never did. Taz is hilarious. You see maps of Oz that exclude Taz. The Canadian equivalent would be to exclude Newfoundland. Which never happens. And Nfld was a separate country until 1948. At Expo, Canadian pavilion, the girl asked the crowd if there was anyone there not from Australia. I put up my hand. "Where are you from?" I said Trawno. She said Bowmanville. I said Sure I know it. She said Most people from Trawno don't know Bowmanville. I said That's weird. Anyway another guy put up his hand. "Where are you from?" "Tasmania." Both Canadians were really confused at that point.

Cascade. I recall a Cascade. Tasmanian wolf on the label? There was one place on Circular Quay that stocked Tasmanian beer. But the Stout I don't remember.
 * Thylacine. Btw, have a drink on 20 June for Errol Flynn's 100th Birthday, my EF Society of Tasmania has been going all out for it

Toohey's. Funny story (at least to me). My first visit to an Aussie pub. With my newest, bestest m.... friends. Pete, Nuri, and the guy whose name I can't remember. "What should I order?" Pete says I should ask for "Black" (Toohey's). I ask for "Two Black". The barman says "rah rah rah rah rah". Like the teacher in an old Charlie Brown cartoon. "Excuse me?" "rah rah rah rah." "Sorry?" Barman: "Do you want big ones or little ones?" "Oh, big ones." So at the table I asked my m.... pals, what did the barman say to me? And that's when I got my first of many lectures about middies and schooners and ponies and pots and all of that. And here we thought "pint" was good enough. Actually here you used to be able decades ago to order a "tray" or sometimes a "table", a table being 24 beers I think it was. But that is old-style "beer parlour" culture which you probably need to be over 40 to remember. Yeah, usually 3 guys would get a table, 8 each. Then you salt them to get the gas out. I haven't seen other countries salt beer, but I have heard that some Americans do it too. Tomato juice + beer might be Canadian culture too. That's a red eye, it's called. Getting rarer now, like all things Canuck. Cheers. Enjoy that screening. Dave
 * Here a case of 24 tins of beer is a 'slab' that is commonly seen being consumed on trains. I was disappointed Oz didn't stay pounds but replaced the word pound with 'slab' and the shilling with the 'tinnie'
 * What a shame.
 * Btw, does Toronto have its own city song sung to the tune of 'Gigantor'? If not it should!Foofbun (talk) 22:59, 12 June 2009 (UTC)