# Chunder? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 30, 1999, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703 "1999-09-30T22:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/1 "1999-09-30T22:58:00Z")
“I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder. Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Chunder? Some kinda’ Australian thing? You think it just rhymed well with “Thunder” and “under”? Inkz Yes Nickerz, I’m mindful of copyright violations… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/2 "1999-09-30T23:02:00Z")
A substantial portion of the language of Oz consists of euphemisms for regurgitation. It has something to do with having nothing to do in the outback but get drunk, abuse the abos, and, um, watch the sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/3 "1999-10-01T00:07:00Z")
I thought it was “Where women blow and men blunder.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/4 "1999-10-01T00:45:00Z")
Where I come from, cookies that have been tossed are also known as “Thunder Chunder Chowder”. * * * TT “Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/5 "1999-10-01T01:45:00Z")
Nickrz, you have a filthy mind… ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/6 "1999-10-01T16:10:00Z")
We use ‘chunder’ at home (NW England) frequently, a ‘Tactical Chunder’ being the requirement to expel previously consumed beer in order that more can be consumed. Doesn’t make much sense economically, but not much does when you’re hoofed. ---
**Author:** ![Keeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@Keeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeves)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/7 "1999-10-01T16:20:00Z")
I think Nickrz was closer than anyone else. I went to AltaVista and searched for _+“land down under” +“better take cover” +thunder_ It returned 39 hits. **All** of the first ten said > [@](#): > > Where women glow and men plunder ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/8 "1999-10-01T16:26:00Z")
Somebody give Casey Kasem a call. When that song was on his TOP 40 program, he went down a list of all the Aussie terms. I don’t remember what any of them were, but I seem to recall (as he pronounced it) was “. . . men shunder.” I think “fried out combie” meant a broken-down VW. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/9 "1999-10-01T16:28:00Z")
I think they’re both right. Here are the lyrics. 1st Stanza blah blah blah And she said, “Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Third stanza blah blah blah He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich And he said, “I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Fifth blah blah you know what I mean And he said, “Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah) Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/10 "1999-10-01T16:28:00Z")
Keeves, you wingnut, it’s the second chorus. Oy, I’m sorry I brought it up (PUN!). Inkz ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/11 "1999-10-01T16:29:00Z")
[http://members.aol.com/babsjdonne/menatwrk/discog/lyrics/downund.htm](http://members.aol.com/babsjdonne/menatwrk/discog/lyrics/downund.htm) That’s the url. Sorry I didn’t put it up above. ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/12 "1999-10-01T16:30:00Z")
Sing it with me… Missys in trouble! Missys in trouble! Nya nya na na nya! Inkz ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/13 "1999-10-01T16:45:00Z")
It figures. I’ve been having one of those Monday 2 - The Sequel kind of days. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Keeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@Keeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeves)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/14 "1999-10-02T05:12:00Z")
ooops… i’m gonna go back to writing stuff that i actually know things about… have a nice weekend y’all… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/15 "1999-10-05T06:39:00Z")
All this talk is making me hungry! _smiles & Take bite of Vegamite sandwich_ * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/16 "1999-10-05T09:04:00Z")
**Chunder:** _verb. To throw up. To chuck. To blow chunks. To call up God on the great white telephone. To drive the porcelain bus._ Thank you. All you had to do was ask me, is that so difiicult? It’s a very descriptive term, referring, I would guess, to the pre-amble your stomach makes when you know it’s gonna happen. And Vegemite isn’t the cause, in case you were wondering. (I prefer Marmite, anyway) * * * “So what you are telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is _slightly less blue_ than something else that you have never seen.” ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/17 "1999-10-05T09:12:00Z")
It is to vomit, and on the Men at Work greatest hits album they address this precise question, and they did write Chunder and meant vomit while drunk. So its not some geek coping lyrics as best he can, and making up the blurry parts. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chunder/3703/18 "1999-10-05T13:21:00Z")
There is a great book by George Chunder called Screw Unto Others. * * * Nobody said things would be easy,and nobody was right-George Bush.