European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tin tier his Lime. There 13 now a Judson welliver society of Armor while House writers. Who you May Well ask. Was Judson welliver he s in fellow who went to to Lor Warren mailing As a. Literary clerk and became the isl Lull Lime resident lat ghost in history. To also wrote far Calvin Coolidge. To no Avail Alice Longworth still Houghl of Coolidge As someone weaned on a Picklo speech writers Are Lorn by a conflict of code and ego. Hey readily Ted you that As a result of getting to know heir Man his ideas tastes and speech patterns the ext they finally give him is basically this is their answer to Lippman. The words May Tig heirs to thinking is the client s. Also says Robert Ihram who writes Lor rep. Richard Gephardt Tho Nerlean people would scarcely approve of their Busy i resident consuming the Days to write a speech. Bui the Hiiop hands also yearn or a statute of mutations on the awol silence so that students of history will know who wrote whal a writer and his words Are no soon parted. At Jinon s first inaugural Safire found him Soll wandering around Tho Edge of the crowd silently moulding his lines is the president spoke them embarrassed he moved m and there was Buchanan mouthing his lines. All agree it would be difficult to write or someone hey disliked. In this respect tha busiest is the most acumen real Landon Parvin writes Tor Ronald Reagan Clancy Reagan corporate Heads other republicans and some democrats who suit his ideology but would t care to have Hal Public. Last year Parvin s work for Reagan ran the Gamut ram the solemnity of major speeches on Jan Contra ind aids to scores of one liners on the order of it s Rue hard work never killed anybody but i Ligure Why Ako the Washington is a cily that consumes humor almost As ast As taxes. Candidates lobbyists and Ising bureaucrats hunger for it. Tho Kennedy have Ken known to Call a comic Oil the floor of a Las vegas Ilgah club Tor a Quick fix for the Gridiron and other local Esli Vals. Mark Shields columnist and occasional supplier Lotos changes in the humor Market we re nol nearly As ethnic there Are no Pedro Pat or Manny stories being told. The one group you can Nahe fun of is the wasps you can do quiche is their daa of soul Loco or they Tai galed during tha War at 1812. Their is no Episcopalian Ami defamation there is a legend among speech writers which they doubt is True but they Tell in with a relish mat suggests their own Waller Mitty dreams it concerns an intense president who could be sweetly benign or Thunder ugly abusive. Alter two years of that one writer snapped. And so the president was Rushing out to the Rose Garden for a routine appearance. He scooped up the speech cards handed him by the writer and without Reading hem first he Leader of the Western world sallied Forth there Are those who say we can t Lull ill the great society program and Light Tho War in Vietnam Al the same time. They re wrong and i m going to Letl you Why. There Are those who say we can t feed Tho hungry at Home and also lilt living standards around the world. They Are wrong and i m going to toll you Why two More such retains and Lyndon Baines Johnson was now ready to Tell them Why. Then he turned to the last card and Lound Only this now you re on your March 9,19s8 rapid tire delivery Rinir flacon a Fry and witty Poech Are Anili Trann tracs along who Bur. A primer on aussie speak United press International Rikey Cobber it s Crook Soma Crim nicked me clabber and our ozzies chunk and champers while i was having a cuppa under the Coath angor some secret code a language of spies no it s australian Slang a unique lexicon which has developed thousands of Miles irom the rest of Tho English speaking world since Iha Landing of the first Hoot of convict ships from Britain 200 years ago. More than 2 million foreign visitors Are expected on Australia s shores for the nation s Bicentennial this year Many might think they have landed on a Distant planet when they visit an aussie pub and discover they can t understand anything. Australians of course speak English leaning More heavily of the British variety than Iho american idiom. There is a Large borrowing of colourful Cockney phrases irom London s East end Birthplace of Many of the nation s original convicts. Isolation from their British Homeland in a harsh new environment forced the Early convicts and tree settlers who followed into a brotherhood of survival which continues today known As mat ship. Broad accent and laconic dry and Willy speech developed stamping australian English As a language Neaily unto itself and spawning its own dictionary. Australian Slang combined with a rapid fire delivery further boggles outsiders minds. To assist let s translate that paragraph above crikey Cobber in 8 Crook is someone telling a Friend something bad has happened. The Crim criminal has stolen his clothes swimming costumes clobber and ozzies and also Haj Chicken and Champagne chock and champers while he was having a cup of Lea cuppa under the Sydney Harbor Bridge nicknamed the his irate recital nasal twang accentuated by outrage might continue tried to give you a Cooee but i had a Captain Cook and there was no eau do Cologne so had to cop in Sweet. Reckon they la be Bogro this arvo when the sheilas find out. Slony Iho bloody crows and starve the of amen lizards.," that is he tried to Call Cooee his Friend but had a look Caplain Cook derived from Cockney rhyming Slang end could t find a Telephone eau de Cologne also rhyming Slang and had to take in All on the Chin cop it Sweet. He said there would be aggravation in the afternoon Aggro in he arvo when their girlfriends sheilas Lound out. Stone the bloody crows and starve the flaming lizards Are expletives expressing his further unhappiness. Some Ausile word open a real can of Worms such As a red haired male or female is automatically nicknamed ii the american puppet Howdy Doody had been australian a would to called Bluey Woody or Little orphan Bluey a Typo of sheep or cattle dogs Are called Blue. When you have a Blue you re having an argument. A big Blue is a real dust up unless you prefer the term big Barney australians Are " Rue Blue a Btu is your Friend and a Bluey is also the swag you Hump around in the Outback or Bush. You might be surprised to know that Australia s unofficial National Anthom Waltzing Mali Daras nothing to do will a Man dancing with a woman named Matilda. Tha 1630s Banjo Zallerson song refers to an unfortunate Jolly swagman something like a Hobo walking along the Road Waltzing with his Bedroll perhaps lied to the end o a stick Malilda. Australians love to shorten words Lor their Slang and especially like adding endings wish of or in the of there Are Yobbo uncouth Loudmouth Garbos garbage collector Drongo idiots and milk ii milkmen. Pasties Are mail deliverers Greenier conservationists ozzies Mosquito and trekkie breakfast. There is a whole vocabulary of ups nosh up Lor a feast slap up something Dono in a big Way Send up spool stuff up botched and beat up something blown out of proportion. In might sound unkind but ozzies Slang Tor australians Call americans septic tanks rhyming with yanks Ollon shortened to just but most australians like americans and no malice is intended. If you want to fight Rue with to try giving the Ozios their own National Salute. It s a vigorous brushing action in front o your face Asil to shoo away Hies the country s Enol tidal Symbol. But Don t be surprised it the flies Salute Back. The stars and stripes Page 15
