Talk:Dunny

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The word "Dunny" can also be a verb as in the expression "to do a Dunny on the nightshift" a sort of a hatchet job or stitch up on people who maintain aeroplanes specifically at night. The phrase became popular towards the end of the twentieth century when an aircraft engineer called Dunny, of Australian descent but living and "working" in the north east of England became a certifying engineer and promptly started abusing his new found authority by leaving jobs of even moderate difficulty to the nightshift. The free time he gained by offloading his work onto others was put to good use when a web based forum he established as a science project increased in popularity to become one of the most popular aviation maintenance web forums for people who were banned from Pprune and Airmech for swearing. Even today the site regularly attracts as many as five visitors a day seeking answers to many aviation related queries or links to dwarf porn....

Someone inserted this at the top of the article. I didn't know what to do with it, so I moved it here. --DanielCD 13:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stuff about the toy "Dunny"

Obviously, the Dunny toy argument does not belong in this article. If it belongs anywhere, it would be in another article, i.e., "Dunny -- Toy" of something like that. This material should be eliminated and/or moved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.207.182 (talk) 01:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. It was only hazily comprehensible (and looked like a juvenile fantasy), so I simply deleted it. -- Hoary 00:25, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I think your deletion was a bit premature. However, I agree it doesn't belong here (and the US Slang bit could do with being broken off too). I think the toy (and munny) could be merged into kidrobot, and will suggest that on those talk pages. FiggyBee (talk) 22:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)