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AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:17 JST AI6YR Ben
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As in Waltzing Matilda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtttbbYfSM

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  AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:17 JST AI6YR Ben
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  For all my life I thought a billabong was Australian for "swamp". 😟
  
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  AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:17 JST AI6YR Ben
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  This is almost as big of a revelation as when I figured out maybe 8 years ago that "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is the same tune as the "ABC Song"
  (having learned those both as a small child, apparently the neurons failed to connect the tune between the two songs for my entire adult life)
  
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  Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:17 JST Paul_IPv6
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  @ai6yr
  our brains do fascinating things, both with connections made and missed.
  i learned how to sing the alphabet backwards because NoVA cops used to love doing DUI checkpoints and making you say the alphabet backwards. (I was young and stupid... didn't drink and drive, just wanted to piss cops off...)
  
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  Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:17 JST Steve's Place
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  @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I counted in German, to 10 and back again, as they made me walk a straight line one day. The speeding ticket was deserved. The rest was a fishing expedition.
  
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  AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 02:09:18 JST AI6YR Ben
  
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  I just learned what a Billabong is! (oxbow lake in Australia)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong
  #billabong
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    Billabong
    
    In Australian English, a billabong ( BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek, but other types of small lakes, ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs. The term is likely borrowed from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal Australian language of New South Wales. Etymology The word billabong is most likely derived from the Wiradjuri language of southern New South Wales, which "describes a pond or pool of water that is left behind when a river alters course or after floodwaters recede". According to the Macquarie Dictionary (2005), the original term bilabaŋ means "a watercourse that runs only after rain", with bila meaning "river", and possibly combined with bong or bung, meaning "dead". The attribution of this last part of the word was contested in 2004 by Frederick Ludowyk of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, whose view was that "-bong" or "-bang" was a suffix "signifying a continuation in...

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