By that stage, Lauren and Tyson had long since returned to their Asia Pacific beat, just as I’d resumed my radio duties – all of us wiser about colloquial cash, if not a little spent.Ī cultural guide to going out and loving your city. Jolly green giant, says the Macquarie, is another label, plus Bradman and Dougie (Mawson). Art history academic Callum Reid suggests the avocado ($100) should now be “called the smashed avo to represent its increased value.” Hence, we see bunyip and alien – evoking mythical sightings – alongside Kermit, kale, snotter, choko and crocodile. Reasons are twofold: firstly, its colour shift from grey to green (or grey nurse to watermelon in the glossary), and second, its perceived rarity. Leaving us with $100, perhaps the most vernacular note in the national skyrocket. Doubling down, the $20 has copped both redback and cherry, and the $50 the Hawaii (being the 5-0, after the TV show). As for puns, I loved the Ocker gotcha of Pav (Pavarotti-tenor-tenner).īluey, Australia’s animated sweetheart, is another alias for $10, the note also known as the heeler, the Banjo, the Smurf, the blue tongue. Rhyming slang recurred throughout the purse, from Stewie (Diver/fiver) to Peter (McKenna/tenner) for the blue swimmer. Others include the maroon and the Pammie, after tennis player Pam Shriver (fiver).
Piglet, prawn, panther – the $5 note has ample tags. Shades of publican William Ryan’s flashback: “In the (very) early ’80s, at nightclub doors, the $5 was known as ‘the purple business card’.” This echoes the notion of $50 being the fun voucher, while Haikal Saadh painted this restaurant scenario: “You don’t have a table? What about… for my friend Edith Cowan?” Elsewhere, Dame Edith is dubbed Mrs Doubtfire. Hence, they express solidarity with their former Menulog brethren by giving $5 tips.” They’re all highly paid Unix techs who once paid the bills at uni by delivering food. Keeping to menus, and apples, a Twitter respondent in Mr Krabappel shared a story: “A friend’s coding team calls a $5 note the ‘tip note’.
0 kommentar(er)
