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Thread #106533   Message #2207247
Posted By: John O'L
02-Dec-07 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oz Prime Minister loses seat in election
Subject: RE: BS: Oz Prime Minister loses seat in election
Poms.
Well, when the convicts were transported here, they had Store High In Transit printed on their...No no no, wrong bullshit, sorry.

A story goes that the convicts had POHM on their shirts for Prisoner Of His/Her Majesty.
Another story goes that a train of rhyming slang goes along the lines of - immigrant, Jimmy Grant, pomegranate, pommygrant, pommy.

Suffice to say that for some reason lost to us now, Australians call all English "Poms" or "Pommies".