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To: Ilaine who wrote (35954)	8/5/2002 7:18:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

CB, Poms are English, more colloquially called Pommy Bastards. Usually cloth cap unionists but any smug, self-satisfied, forked-tongue manipulative type English would do. Scottish, Irish and Welsh can't really be Poms. I don't know the origins sorry. Irish are for Irish jokes. Women do run the world - men make a lot of noise and like to let off explosives, but women do the choosing on who gets to breed and set the tone. Some of them do a bad job. Mqurice Edit... good old Google... australianbeers.com But, as outlined, the opposite is true in Australia. We in no way identify with England now. We are Australian, through and through, and we refer to the English, not just as English, but as Poms. Or pommy bastards. Or bloody whinging poms. That last expression comes about because the Poms have always been perceived as coming over as immigrants and then continually complaining about the state of affairs in Australia. "It's too hot", whinge the Poms. "The beaches are too sandy!" they cry. "The sea is too wet!". And so on, and so forth. At least that's been the stereotype.