<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33564"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33565">OT: I've also heard (and used) the phrase "wood duck" to mean the price that someone would pay on something without haggling for it at all - usually meaning the buyer paid a lot more than they could/should have.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33518"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33518" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33469" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33468"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33467"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33466"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33465"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33606"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Hudson <hudrob@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mark Currie <MCurrie@laserfast.com.au>; "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 20 June 2016, 10:35<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] UK Network Administrator Group<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33582"><br><div id="yiv1523071628"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33723"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33722">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="yiv1523071628yqt9144231319" id="yiv1523071628yqt38649"><div class="yiv1523071628gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33726"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1523071628gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33728">On 20 June 2016 at 10:02, Mark Currie <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:MCurrie@laserfast.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:MCurrie@laserfast.com.au">MCurrie@laserfast.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1523071628gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466377481821_33730">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 clear="none">
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On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 11:31 +0000, ANSA SERVERS wrote:<br clear="none">
> Want to avoid the nuff nuffs<br clear="none">
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"Nuff nuffs". That's a new one on me. Nice.<br clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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