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**1stgulfmac** · 16-06-2009, 14:16

Yep saw all that esp the bit about rubbing it of a la 'banjo playing' but still getting wah statements. Any one know the origins for real?

**Themanwho** · 16-06-2009, 17:59

Er. That is the real origin.

Just because it's stupid, doesn't mean it isn't true.

**jarrod248** · 16-06-2009, 18:29

I thought it came from the Australian Banjo Patterson?

**Themanwho** · 17-06-2009, 17:18

Bloody convicts will try to claim the credit for anything. Worse than the Jocks, and that's saying something. "Och aye we invented the telephone, and the barrel and the decimal point and the Television and the word scrotum and the solar system, the noo".

**Pteranadon** · 19-06-2009, 22:24

I donlt buy the joke explanation about fanning the dribbly egg. I suspect its a word from soke oriental language sounding like Banjo but meaning sandwich.

**AlienFTM** · 24-06-2009, 09:36

Originally Posted by Pteranadon

I donlt buy the joke explanation about fanning the dribbly egg. I suspect its a word from soke oriental language sounding like Banjo but meaning sandwich.

Well you go away and research it and when you prove your case you may feel smug and shoot down an army (if you'll pardon the pun) of us who recognise the banjo-playing name derivation learned by each of us the first time we ate one after a patrol in NI ... or wherever.