Talk:Acropolis Now

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edit - Effie is Jim's cousin, not girlfriend

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This term became popular with "wogs", and to a lesser extent Anglo-Celtic people, especially in Melbourne.

Ok.. what the hell is that doing here? --Irishpunktom\^talk 16:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll tell you why it was there, and quite justified in quotes - because "skip" is the equivalent counterpart to "wog"; a reply, if you will. It would probably have been more consistent for it to say, This term became popular with "wogs", and to a lesser extent "skips" themselves, especially in Melbourne.

In fact, these "wogs" in question really helped the (polysyllabilically-termed) Mediterranean-Australian community claim the term with their Wogs Out Of Work show, and the word's pretty much lost most of its nastiness since... when I was a kid, the single word alone might have done for an insult, but now it requires a preceding adjective to have any bite, if you catch my drift... plenty of "wogs" classify themselves as such without a blip. It's just a convenient monosyllable to denote an Aussie of southern European extraction, in my mind.

And I reckon these fellers this article's on deserve another pat on the back for popularising the term "skip"... plenty of times I've been asked by a "wog" (in my mind, just a kind of Aussie) if I'm an Aussie - in a specific sense which "skip" replaces. I've often said something like, "You're an Aussie too, dammit. Ask me if I'm a skip." - Kimmo, Melbourne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.35.108 (talk) 00:30, 30 October 2007 (UTC)