[Oztrich Boy]

Why just mock all Canadians, have a go at the Brits while you're at it.

Australians don't like to mock the British

[Ashamed Canadian]

Then why do you lot always refer to the Brits as 'pommies' then?

[Oztrich Boy]

See. That's the reason we do mock the bloody poms - they know when we are kidding them.

[Fair Go]

Really! They get called more than 'poms' as this extract from a story on cricket in today's "Sydney Morning Herald" shows:

During the controversial Bodyline series of 1932-33, the English captain Douglas Jardine was said to have visited the Australian dressing room to complain bitterly to his counterpart Bill Woodfull that an Australian player had called him a bastard.

Woodfull turned to his team and said: "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"