# Ricky Ponting, yes you. You'll be eating marmite from a spoon this time next year.

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**Created:** [August 17, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-ponting-yes-you-youll-be-eating-marmite-from-a-spoon-this-time-next-year/260169 "2004-08-17T01:25:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-ponting-yes-you-youll-be-eating-marmite-from-a-spoon-this-time-next-year/260169/21 "2004-08-18T15:40:14Z")

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> [@roger thornhill](#):
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> You don’t fool me, **lambchops**. No fair dinkum Aussie would admit to knowing a word like braggadocio. And those who fancy themselves as a bit of a Robert Hughes or Clive James would have to go abroad to learn how to spell it.
> 
> Can’t you wooses do any better?

And to think, all this time I thought they spoke English in Australia.

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