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The bandicooter goes at night to a field of ripe potatoes and carefully extracts the tubers from the roots without disturbing the tops.Įxtremely unhappy. is a well-known term all over Western Vic. Usually this activity is surreptitious.ġ896 Bulletin 12 December: I must 'bandicoot' spuds from the cockies - Or go on the track!ġ899 Bulletin 2 December: 'Bandicooting'. It means 'to remove potatoes from the ground, leaving the tops undisturbed'. Probably from the perception of the bandicoot's burrowing habits, a new Australian verb to bandicoot arose towards the end of the nineteenth century. Watson in Lecture on South Australia writes: 'The land here is generally good there is a small proportion that is actually good for nothing to use a colonial phrase, 'a bandicoot (an animal between a rat and a rabbit) would starve upon it'.' Typical examples include: and bandicoots'.įrom 1830s the word bandicoot has been used in various distinctively Australian phrases as an emblem of deprivation or desolation. In 1799 David Collins writes of the 'bones of small animals, such as opossums. Soon after white settlement in 1788 the word bandicoot (the name for the Indian mammal Bandicota indica) was applied to several Australian mammals having long pointed heads and bearing some resemblance to their Indian namesake. What do you say to a quick look at the banana-benders?Ģ011 Northern Star (Lismore) 11 July: Should the Matilda's have won last night or the Netball Diamonds see off New Zealand, Anna Bligh will doubtless claim it was due to the preponderance of banana benders in the squads or at the very least the result of a Gold Coast holiday during their formative years. Lockwood Up the Track: We are so close to Queensland that I think we should hop over the border. Banana bender, in reference to a Queenslander, is first recorded in 1940 and is till commonly heard.ġ964 D. The Queensland border has been called the Banana curtain and Brisbane has been called Banana city. The association of bananas with Queensland ('banana land') is based on the extensive banana-growing industry in tropical Queensland. 'I'm a banana-bender'. Further to enlighten her Majesty he explained that bananas grew straight on the trees, and so just before they ripened, his was the job to mount the ladder, and with a specialised twist of the wrist, put into the fruit the Grecian bend that was half its charm. An article from 15 July 1937 in the Queenslander provides a forerunner to the term when a man is asked by the Queen what his occupation is:

The term derives from the joking notion (as perceived from the southern states of Australia) that Queenslanders spend their time putting bends into bananas. at Singapore's Okto Channel, Mediacorp.A Queenslander. The series' English dub aired on October 20, 2012, 5:30 p.m.

FREE RIDER 1 ENGLISH BANANA SERIES

Inspiration for this series was very likely to have been the fact that Toei had successfully ensured that the Kamen Rider series lasted a whole decade (2000-2009) without the show going into a period of hiatus which had always occurred since the franchise began in the 1970s.

The series ties in with the arcade game Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride, with Kamen Riders Decade and Diend using cards resembling those used in the game to transform and access various weapons. It began broadcast the week following the finale of Kamen Rider Kiva and is featured in Super Hero Time alongside the 2009 edition of the Super Sentai Series, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. Decade, as its title suggests, is the tenth of the Heisei Rider Series, having begun with Kamen Rider Kuuga in 2000. Kamen Rider Decade ( 仮面ライダーディケイド Kamen Raidā Dikeido, Masked Rider DCD, Masked Rider Decade) is the title of the first of the 2009 editions of the long-running Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu dramas.

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