Word: blink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pronunciation for Asian students at the University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog. He'll nebby any good." Translation: "If it were...
...also told me about the lights that circled the Times Building, spelling out the news, and the giant ball that dropped on New Year's Eve. No sixteen-year-old worth this three-day trip across the country would ever give up a chance to see the news blink around the Times Building and be able to describe it to two unworldly friends before breakfast...
Much as the lights blink on in a block at evening...
...Alfred surrounded by oleanders and watched over by the spirit of the jade-eyed jaguar and most of the children of Palenque, who hang like exotic globed fruit in the trees above them. Mean temperature 89 degrees Farenheit. During the consummation Merilee meows and meows. Alfred and Girl hardly blink, the jaguar is not surprised, but the children find it strange and wonderful the way gringos do it, and their curiosity is satisfied...