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"fair shake" - you in Australia?


No, I live in Nevada. Reno specifically. Is that an Australian thing to say?


Well, sort of :) Kevin Rudd (our former Prime Minister) is somewhat famous for saying "fair shake of the sauce bottle" in a TV interview, instead of the saying "fair suck of the sauce bottle".

The "correct" version refers to sharing booze between friends, but Kevin Rudd's version meant sharing a bottle of tomato sauce (or Ketchup as you would say) to put on a meat pie.

People made fun of him for being too damned "clean" - ie. was he so PG rated that he couldn't even allude to consuming alcohol?

I thought your "fair shake" may have been in reference to that.




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