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    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-13762,00.html

    AS if losing the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup to England wasn't bad enough. Now the Poms have triumphed at another great Australian pastime: drinking.

    London has officially hosted the world's biggest pub crawl, snatching the record from the small regional Queensland city of Maryborough. A final total of 2278 registered drinkers took part in London's world record attempt on October 14, just 41 more than officially attended Maryborough's record-setting attempt in June this year.

    Maryborough Shire Councillor Anne Nioa said the Brits' success had made organisers determined to hold an even bigger pub crawl next year and bring the title back to Australia.



    ......and here I thought Australia was a nation of piss-heads! You bleeding poms are bigger drinkers ROFL! Nevermind, you can bet you bottom dollar that those organisors will be successful..... any reason to have a drink

    Info about Maryborough / Maryborough City Council site


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    Well we definatly have more pubs over there, lol!

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    POMs ------------?????

    Help me out here I am not up on this Britishism.......

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    POM is the aussie slang for any British person. Pommy or Pommie is the other slang term.


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    I got that. What does POM reference though. Pomegranates? Like Limey from limes in the water to combat scurvy.

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    I was always told it was POHM, Prisoner of Her/His Majesty.


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    The most convincing suggestion for the etymology of the term 'Pom' is to be found on Michael Quinion's World Wide Words website.

    "It is now pretty well accepted that the pomegranate theory is close to the truth, though there's a slight twist to take note of. HJ Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia. He suggested that the word began life on the wharves in Melbourne as a form of rhyming slang. An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant (was there perhaps a famous real person by that name around at the time?), but over time this shifted to Pommy Grant, perhaps as a reference to pomegranate, because the new chums did burn in the sun. Later pommy became a word on its own and was frequently abbreviated still further. The pomegranate theory was also given some years earlier in The Anzac Book of 1916.

    "Whatever your beliefs about this one, what seems to be true is that the term is not especially old, dating from the end of the nineteenth century at the earliest, certainly not so far back as convict ship days".

    Kevin Wooldridge, Lowestoft, England

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    Bwhahahahahah. I must say, drunk English are a riot. (Sometimes literally at football games.)

    I do favor drunk Irish & Welsh because they've had more practice.......

    & I still don't know why Scottish women turn into the Devil when drunk. Someone please tell me. It's shocking! The red hair curls into horns, they start throwing things...Eiiik!

    (Ozzies only lost this because of urban population numbers disparity & they're too independent to be told when, where & who with to get drunk.....LOL)

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