1) Closet alcoholic
2) Well prepared traveller.
Hmmm. Lemme think about it [smilebigeye]
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1) Closet alcoholic
2) Well prepared traveller.
Hmmm. Lemme think about it [smilebigeye]
When I moved to Qld in 1960, I had no idea what my schoolmates were talking about when they got their port.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonesfam
As an aside, I used a Globite school case, my school mates had hard backpack ports.
I didn't run across "port" until I moved to Qld to work after graduating. And it took me years to realise that it is simply an abbreviation of "portmanteau", which is simply French for "suitcase".
What gave it away Ron? All the schoolbags on the port-rack? [biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
I never realised it was a Queensland expression until, people picked me as a Queenslander, for using the phrase "As full as a State School port-rack.". [bighmmm]
Feel sorry for you guys. All the schools I went to had lockers, we didn't have to carry our entire school kit around every day.
I've only seen school lockers in American movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by trog
Yeah, but we didn't go to a reform school. :tease:Quote:
Originally Posted by trog
I m hurt. I was always told they were good schools. At least we were never caught doing the crimes 😈
Hmm, my Grandma was born in 1901 and raised in Five Dock, married at 17 and lived her entire life on small acreage at Mulgoa. She called a large suitcase a Port. The family did travel for holidays quite a bit.
I'll have to ask mum where that came from ?
That's interesting - my grandfather lived in Mulgoa from the 1930s to the 1950s; his sister had a shop (possibly the only shop) at Mulgoa from the 1920s, but it shut up shop after her death in about 1940, and he and his invalid daughter continued to live there until the early fifties, when he moved closer in.Quote:
Originally Posted by rick130