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- From: keithd@stallion.oz.au (Keith Duddy)
- Subject: Religious right & Dingo's Kidneys (Was: Fundamentalists and the clitoris)
- Organization: Stallion Technologies
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:38:21 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov9.215419.16057@news.ysu.edu> <1992Nov12.035614.14567@funlwb.enet.dec.com> <1992Nov12.160026.83@panix.com> <1992Nov13.173845.10165@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- In <1992Nov13.173845.10165@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> psp@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (P.S. Powledge) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov12.160026.83@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >>
- >>Of a harsh but not (IMO) out-of-line description of attitudes
- >>among members of the religious right in the United States toward
- >>female sexuality. sunderl@obvius.stl.dec.com (Mike Sunderland) writes:
- >>
- >> >What a load of dingo's kidneys!!!!
- >> >If you weren't so bloody defensive you might be able to have enough
-
- [lots deleted]
-
- >I'm glad they're not that loony in Australia. But in the U.S., they're
- >both loony and, unfortunately, powerful.
-
- They've been pretty bloody powerful in at least parts of
- Australia for decades. Anyone hear of Joh Bejelke-Peterson?
- Queensland's premier for 15+ years was a way fundie christian and
- had strong alliances with "family" groups and the rest of the
- religious right. Abortion is still illegal in Queensland - even
- though we now have a Labor government, and we had to wait for
- them to brought in after a massive corruption enquiry into the
- working of the previous state government before the sodomy law
- was repealed.... (At least 5 government ministers and the police
- commissioner were brought to trial on corruption charges, and all
- but 1 who died in the middle of proceedings were locked up! The
- premier - Joh, was aquitted by virtue of the fact that a "Young
- National" Party member happened to get on the jury, and
- obstructed the passage of a majority guilty verdict leaving the
- trial at a stalemate, and the public prosecutor has decided
- against a re-trial.) I could also go into detail about draconian
- drug laws and the claim that there "is no prostitution in
- Queensland".....
-
- >PS: Do Australians *really* say things like "dingo's kidneys"? My entire
- >picture of Australia was formed by a television show I used to watch as
- >a youngster about a crime-fighting kangaroo (I kid you not). But they seem
- >to have left out some of the more colorful phrases from the show. :^)
-
- (Skippy - the bush kangaroo. Try Neighbours, Home & Away & the
- Flying Doctors for an updated, equally misleading portrait of
- Australian life.)
-
- In fact the phrase "A load of fetid dingo's kidneys" was inventd
- by Douglas Adams (an Englishman) in one of the hitch-hiker's
- books. I was recently cosidering the affects that those books
- have had on our idiom (that of the English speaking world, esp
- Britain & Australia), as I keep noticing things from
- Hitch_hikers use unselfconsciously in conversation.. The most
- common in my circle of friends being: "For no adequately
- explored reason". I'd be interested to know if anyone else has
- noticed examples of this.
-
- Keith
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