On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:17:36 +1000, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Doesn't Geoff hoon around in the tanks then, chopping up the asphalt
> and keeping the neighbors awake?
> Still get the giggles about the name - one of those private Australian
> jokes like the verb 'to root.'
> AndrewF
>
ROTFLMAO!
'To Hoon' is not a complimentary term...
Wide application. To blunder about, act incompetently, make up excuses on
the spur of the moment, yet bear no consequences.
From which derives 'to be Hooned', that is to be kept on in office by
one's superiors as an Aunt Sally, marked for martyrdom.
D.
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