Re: Spegunking!

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--- Camille Scaysbrook <c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John Smith wrote:
> > The origin of 'spegunking' is lost in the relics
> of
> > our lexicon landfill, but it's fairly popular
> across
> > Canada.  It means, 'to picketh one's nose.'  I've
> yet
> > to see it in print, but it's such a nice word that
> the
> > art and sport of spegunking is likely to rise.  On
> a
> > related note, spegunking related deaths usually
> happen
> > within five miles of the home.  Don't spegunk and
> > drive.
> 
> P.S. A bubbler is a drinking fountain, a dunny is a
> toilet. Slang tends to
> hang around the scatalogical end of the spectrum,
> doesn't it? I guess it's
> an area that tends to attract euphemisms.
> 
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> 

I suppose when I go to Australia people will wonder
why I am so eager to drink out of the toilet.  If they
call me strange, I'll pee in the fountain.
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