#OzWatch: Tiger toast eating cozzie livs stepping over a murder noodle. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 23 April 2023
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#OzWatch: Tiger toast eating cozzie livs stepping over a murder noodle. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/20/gendy-nooch-cozzie-livs-and-noodle-australian-words-lining-up-for-a-macquarie-dictionary-debut
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends Vistue Debating Society. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm John Batchewitt, Jeremy Zachis of New South Wales, the number two city in the Australian |
| 0:09.0 | continent. |
| 0:10.1 | We go now to the Reptile Report. |
| 0:13.0 | It's bad enough that they have venomous snakes that you will certainly have a bad day |
| 0:17.9 | if you don't get to the hospital within an hour. |
| 0:21.5 | One of course is the Eastern Brown Snake, then there's the Great Eastern Brown Snake. |
| 0:25.8 | There is the Red Belly Black Snake. |
| 0:28.1 | There's the boa constrictor that will just starve your trusted poodle of oxygen and otherwise |
| 0:35.5 | as harmless lives in the avic, only mouses, good heavens. |
| 0:40.6 | However, the Australians have so accustomed themselves to snakes, reptiles, to try to kill |
| 0:47.5 | you. |
| 0:48.5 | They've invented words to describe them. |
| 0:51.1 | I'd say that the way they invent words is to make them not hostile by making them more |
| 0:55.5 | funny than anything else. |
| 0:57.7 | Jeremy, I go now to the report about New Dictionary Words in Australia. |
| 1:04.0 | What is a murder noodle? |
| 1:06.2 | Yes, John. |
| 1:07.2 | Now, let me introduce you to the murder noodle. |
| 1:10.6 | This is quintessentially Australian. |
| 1:12.4 | Basically, what a murder noodle is is any venomous snake. |
| 1:16.2 | Any venomous snake. |
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