“Down Under” is coming alive by taking a giant step forward as an petroleum rich country. As a matter of fact, they are putting the Camel Jockeys and Our Comrades’ in Russia to shame with their recent oil find.

This discovery was made by Dr. Moors in the small Australian town of Coober Pedy where temperatures can reach 118 degrees during the day and water has to be piped in from over 20 kilometers away. Sounds like an ideal place to live.

Due to these harsh living conditions, many of the town’s 1,695 residents are forced to live in underground caves.

Putting all of these hardships aside, this oil rich town is getting a lot of publicity as having one of; if not the biggest deposit of oil anywhere in the world.

Scientists have estimated that 233 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be sucked out of the ground in the 16 million acres located in and around Coober Pedy.

This find can conceivably bring the Aussies’ 20 trillion dollars (that is with a “T not a “B” or an “M”).

Without a doubt there is going to be a rush on Cobber Pedy just like the gold rush in California, so I am attaching some slang words just in case you are one of the fortune seekers; this will have head start on some of the blokes that are going to invade the Land of the Kangaroos’ and the didgeridoo:

Arvo: Afternoon.
Avos: Avocados.
Avago You Mug: Shout of encouragement to a sportsman not performing to his best
Banana bender: A Queenslander.
Barbie: Barbecue, as in “I’ll throw some shrimp and chook on the barbie.”
Bash: Party. Also “fancy turns”.
Bonzer: Pronounced “bonsa” – grouse, great, excellent.
Bloke: Man, guy.
Bludger: Lazy person, layabout.
Bluey: (also known as Blue) Slang for any bloke with red hair, and also known to describe the Australian Cattle Dog.
Bonnet: Hood of a car.
Boomer: A large male kangaroo, as Rolf Harris sings, “Six white boomers, snow white boomers on Santa’s Australian run…”.
Boot: Trunk of a car.
Bottle shop: Liquor shop.
Box of blowflies: Ugly, as in “that’s as ugly as a box of blowflies!” And that’s pretty ugly!
Buckley’s Chance: No chance at all.
Bung: To put or place. E.g bung another snag on the barbie
Bunyip: A mythical bush spirit, Australia’s bigfoot. Probably just a hairy surfie!
Capsicums: Green or red bell peppers.
Carpetbagger steak: Beef stuffed with oysters.
Chemist shop: Drug store.
Chew the Fat: To talk, engage in pleasant conversation, to have a chinwag.
Chook: Chicken. Often served barbecued at fancy turns. If your hostess is befuddled and/or overcome by trying to do too many things at once, one might say she was “running around like a chook with its head cut-off!”
Cockie: Farmer.
Cockroach: Someone from New South Wales
Crook: Sick, or badly made.
Crow eater: A South Australian.
Dag: A funny person, nerd, goof, loser.
Digger: A soldier.
Dilly-bag: Food bag.
Ding bat: Fool.
Dinky-di: The real thing.
Donk: Car or boat engine.
Donkey’s years: Ages.
Drop-in: To steal a surfer’s wave. This is a serious crime in Surfer’s Paradise. Earbash: Non-stop chatter.
Esky: Portable icebox or cooler – it’s always a good idea to have one in the boot stocked with some cold ones just in case the party’s bar runs dry.
Fair Dinkum: Kosher, the real thing – as in “Fair Dinkum Aussie” (true blue Aussie original). Often used by itself as a rhetorical question to express astonishment verging on disbelief … “Fair Dinkum, mate?” (you’ve got to be kidding, haven’t you?)
Fair go: A good chance
Footpath: Sidewalk.
Footy: Rugby League
Flyer: female kangaroo
Galah: Noisy fool, named after the bird of the same name.
Game: Brave.
G’arn: Go on, you’re kidding!
G’day: Universal greeting, used anytime day or night, but never as a farewell. Pronounced “gud-eye”, usually followed by “mate” (mite) or a typically strung-together “howyagoinallright”(= how are you today, feeling pretty good?)
Give it a burl: Try it.
Good as gold: Great!
Good oil: Useful information, a good idea.
Good Onya: Omnipresent term of approval, sometimes ironic, offering various degrees of heartfelt congratulations depending on inflection. Indispensible during Aussie smalltalk – substitute “really, oh yeh, aha, etc.”
Grizzle: To complain.
Grouse: Rhymes with “house” – means outstanding, tremendous. Can be applied
universally to all things
social … “grouse birds (women), grouse band, in fact, grouse bloody gay and hearty (great party!)”
Have a yarn: To talk to someone.
Hit your kick: Open your wallet.
Hooroo: Pronounced “who-ru”… means “see ya later”, make sure you don’t say g’day when meaning goodbye – it’s a dead giveaway you’re not a true blue Aussie.
Hotel: Often just a pub.
Icy pole: Popsicle.
Jackaroo: A male ranch hand.
Jillaroo: A female ranch hand.
Joey: Baby kangaroo.
Journo: Journalist.
Jumbuck: Sheep.
Jumper: Sweater.
Knock: To criticise.
Lemon squash: Lemonade.
Lob-in: Drop in to see someone.
Lollies: Sweets.
Lolly water: Soft drink.
Never Never: Distant outback.
No-hoper: A fool, loser Offsider: An assistant.
O.S.: Overseas, as in “she’s gone O.S.”
Oz: Australia; God’s country
Pines: Pineapples.
Pommie or pom: An Englishman.
Rafferty’s rules: Chaos, disorder.
Reckon: Think, as in “Your shout or mine? What’ ya reckon?”.
Ridgy-didge: Original, genuine.
Right: Okay, as in “she’ll be right, mate.”
Ring, tingle: Phone someone up, as in “I’ll give him a ring.”
Ripper: Pronounced “rippa” means beaut, tippy-tops, grouse
Rubbish: To knock something.
Sandgroper: A Western Australian.
Shark biscuit: New surfers, grommets on boogie boards. Tres uncool!
Sheila: A woman
She’ll be right: No problem, don’t worry, mate.
Shootin’ through: Leave, take off.
Smoko: Smoke or coffee break.
Snag: A sausage.
Sook: Someone who complains a lot
Spit The Dummie: A “dummie” is Australian for a child’s pacifier. Lose your cool
Stickybeak: Nosy person.
Stone the crows: An exclamation of surprise.
Strewth: Pronounced “sta-ruth” … general exclamation of disbelief or shock.
Strine: Australian slang, from “Aus-strine”, the way Aussies say Australian.
Swagman: Itinerant farm worker, tramp
Taswegian: A resident of Tasmania.
Tee-up: To set up an appointment.
Tomato sauce: Ketchup.
Too right: Definitely!
True blue: Honest, straight.
The Lucky Country: Why, Australia, of course.
Tucker: Food.
Vegemite: A dark brown, gooey, salty vegetable yeast extract. It’s what makes Aussies strong.
Wally: Idiot
Whinge: Rhymes with “hinge” as in door! Means to complain incessantly
Woopwoop: in the boonies, nowhere.
Wowser: Straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport.
Yabber: Talk.
Yobbo: An uncouth person.

I am still trying to figure out how these blokes manage to function upside-down??