<div dir="ltr">I've heard truckies call highway patrol many things - none of them as polite as wood duck (though many of the words involved do rhyme with duck) :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2016 at 10:02, Mark Currie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MCurrie@laserfast.com.au" target="_blank">MCurrie@laserfast.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OT: Woodduck is also a term used by Australian truckies to describe highway police who hide in the trees beside highways with a radar gun. When they detect a speedster, they fly out like a startled wood duck....<br>
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On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 11:31 +0000, ANSA SERVERS wrote:<br>
> Want to avoid the nuff nuffs<br>
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"Nuff nuffs". That's a new one on me. Nice.<br>
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I have a friend who refers to the terminally ineducable as "woodducks", which seems inadequate when written down, but say it out loud with a bit of vinegar and it's surprisingly satisfying.<br>
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