Re: Taxs on Yank petrol? Yup.

"zonie" <sjemoomaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:4541be91126e7b30c49b081935c973b9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Not fair to call all yanks "septics".

Why not for ****'s sake?

Rhyming slang is a common Australian trait, and Americans have been called

"Septic tanks" in place of "Yanks" for years. It's often shortened to 
"septics" or "seppo's".

I don't believe it was ever meant to be derogatory.

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