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[Catty1]

A true and amusing story: A few years ago, a friend of mine went to Austrailia. At Customs, he was asked if he had a criminal record.

His response: "Is that still a requirement?"

He almost didn't get his holiday!

[wombat2u2004]

A true and amusing story: A few years ago, a friend of mine went to Austrailia. At Customs, he was asked if he had a criminal record.

His response: "Is that still a requirement?"

He almost didn't get his holiday!

Hee hee......I'll tell you a little bit of history here...............
When Australia was first colonised as a penal settlement, the British soldiers knicknamed the convicts "Pommies".....the short form of that POME, means Prisoners Of Mother England.
But the system the Brits had in place here, was that the harder a convict worked, the more food and tobacco he received.......the average British soldier who were guards etc etc....received a ration a food and tobacco that was almost hardly anything, and on top of that, once posted here, the Brits were never allowed to go back to Britain.
So we had a situation where the British soldiers had to trade favours for food
with the convicts....the convicts naturally had the goodies, and of course the upper hand.
The knickname POME soon became the knickname of those poor British soldiers, who were a actually the TRUE Prisoners of Mother England........and ever since then, and to this day....we call the Brits...... Pommies.....or the shirt form...POMS.
I guess it's just another one of those situations that backfired on the Brits, and of course........there has been heaps of those instances....LOLOLOL
Wom