There's this two- or three-minute segment on ABC Radio National called "Word Up" in which we are being taught one of the diverse languages of black Australia - one word at a time. I won't burden you with my opinion of this show, other than to offer you my own "three words at a time".
Today's "three words at a time" is "meine Henkers Mahlzeit", and you're looking at it: two grass-fed ANGUS beef sausages served on a mustard-covered slice of wholemeal bread. It is the last meal I prepared myself before the chief cook and bottle-washer returns from her five weeks in Indonesia, and so it qualifies for the customary ritual of serving a last sumptuous meal to the condemned prisoner prior to his execution.
And here is another "three words at a time": "perekat gigi palsu", which means "denture adhesive" (perekat = adhesive; gigi = tooth; palsu = false). It's the same stuff Woolies sell here for $12 to $14 (depending on the day of week!) for a 40-gram tube instead of the above 60 gram.
Padma is bringing back THREE tubes as they cost less than half in Indonesia, and because I need a lot because I promised to wear my new chompers more often to stop people from thinking that she's my carer.
Those savings should at least recover the cost of the in-flight drinks Padma is likely to consume on the way home. Which reminds me of that Australian couple I once met in my travels who were lugging a big bag of wine bottles around with them. Claiming their bragging rights, they told me that they owned a bottle shop back in Australia, and prior to their frequent overseas holidays, they would "sell" to themselves half a dozen of the most expensive wines - think of Penfolds Grange at $2,000 a bottle - and claim a refund for the GST "paid" at the airport's Customs counter. If in fact there were real Penfolds Granges behind those Penfolds Grange labels, they'd bring them home and put them back on the shelf. As they said, they always recovered the cost of their airfares!
Being just a couple of THOUSAND dollars, their scam wouldn't even get a mentioned in the recently discovered TWO BILLION dollar GST scam:
Maybe it has something to do with the "big lie" concept which relies on the falsehood being so grand that no-one would dare to question it, because I know that if I ever claimed too much in deductions on my tax return, they'd come down on me like a ton (or is that 'tonne'?) of bricks.
