Thread: Hoo Roo from Nth Qld.

Welcome aboard. nice to have you as a member.

Welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your stay and get out of the metalwork section eventually.

Hi Phil, welcome to the forums done a bit of metalwork myself and once i get my own place i might just have to set up a small section in my 'shop for some inherited some tools from my late father such as a drill press and bench grinder, alot of hand tools from apprenticship too

G'Day Phil
"HooRoo" is one of those typically Australian sayings that is heading for extinction, alas, due to our overwhelming bombardment of American TV.
Its a real pity to loose these sayings, and a whole lot more, from our everyday speech!
I think that we are claiming to be clever to adopt "modern" sayings and expressions in our language rather than keeping our old ones slip by.
I have a nephew who is in his mid thirties. He has dreadlocks down to his shoulders and works as a gardener/qualified tree arborist in the blue mountains. To look at him one immediately thinks "hippy" (and all the derogatory terms that go with it) but he is a conscientious and hard worker
The "odd" thing about him is that he always says "HooRoo" and has done since he was a little fella. He is very Australian in his way

Hope to hear more from you Phil

Hoo Roo is always my parting comment either in person or on the phone.

Welcome to the forum Phil.

G'day mate,

there is a wealth of good folks with good info and camaraderie on Neils website and I'm sure you will add great value as well, but we need to get one thing straight G'day means Hello and Hooroo means goodbye for now, So which is it? Are you comin or goin? Not much is dead these days, it's just laying in wait to be revitalized!


Anyway, Hooroo or in fact, I will see you Anon.

Oddjob1