toodlepip
Dedicated Member
I thought I better open a topic like that, I´m sure I´ll use it more than once.
I was just reading something on the internet to do with Australia and the words "sheila" and "ockah" turned up which reminded me of the Bandit of Stoke-on-Trent of course, and that I never understodd what Clegg was talking about during their snooker game. Can somebody please explain the bit about the "as an ocker (ockah?! whatever) drinking beer from a can in his undershirt, calling everybody sheila"?
I tried to look up Australian cliches, I guess it must be something like that. I found out that apparently they call a female sheila over there. But I still don´t know what the rest is about. But I found another hilarious explanation, especially for us here:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/compo--2#m_en_gb0168530
Or am I being stupid and this is exactly where Compo got his name from?
I was just reading something on the internet to do with Australia and the words "sheila" and "ockah" turned up which reminded me of the Bandit of Stoke-on-Trent of course, and that I never understodd what Clegg was talking about during their snooker game. Can somebody please explain the bit about the "as an ocker (ockah?! whatever) drinking beer from a can in his undershirt, calling everybody sheila"?
I tried to look up Australian cliches, I guess it must be something like that. I found out that apparently they call a female sheila over there. But I still don´t know what the rest is about. But I found another hilarious explanation, especially for us here:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/compo--2#m_en_gb0168530
Or am I being stupid and this is exactly where Compo got his name from?