I know some people connect clinkers with something unappetising in the anal sense but here in Australia a clinker is in fact an item of confectionery. There was a lot of confusion and howls of disgust when MrSquib first came to Australia and I offered him a clinker. He is still to this day having trouble coming to terms with this upside down world of strange new semantics
Anyway, some of you may recall golden days of yore when you thought of your beloved and ruthlessly tore the petals off a daisy while growling, ’He loves me, he loves me not’. But things have changed since then and for those not on the cutting edge of youth culture like my good self, this is the contemporary Australian version. The accuracy of this test is approximately 33.33333333% whereas the previous test was 50%. The old test was also better for your teeth
Step 1. You think of someone
Step 2. You bite a clinker in half
Step 3. A green clinker indicates that someone likes you, a yellow clinker indicates that someone hates you, and a pink clinker indicates that someone lurves you. awww
Thank you BigSquib for keeping your mother with-it, yo where is my umbrella ella ella eh eh…
4 responses so far ↓
1 MrSquib // Oct 29, 2007 at 3:37 am
There’s only one type of clinker in my book and I refuse to bite it in half
2 squib // Oct 29, 2007 at 5:35 am
There’s a clinker in your book?
3 rocafuentes // Oct 29, 2007 at 5:41 am
I have taken the liberty to investigate the term “clinker” in my Roger’s Profanisaurus
By Roger Mellie
Surprisingly clinker is listed as being of Australian origin:
clinkers Aus. n. Difficult to remove poo particles; toffee strings; winnets; kling-ons; dangleberries.
Seems like MrSquib is very correct is not wanting to bite said clinker in half…!
4 squib // Oct 29, 2007 at 5:59 am
Thank you Roca for being so explicit when I was going to such lengths to delicately veil everything
The term is not in my Penguin book of Australian Slang
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