Hi. Gaelyne.

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GG> Getting tea the other day, I reached for my plate so more food wouldn't
GG> be added to it and said "I'm alright, jack" ... 
"HUH?"   Oh, never
GG> mind I said.

Not, I think, an Aussie expression. It was the title of a B&W pom movie
a long time ago (50s?) starring Peter Sellers and was basically the
story of the classical, recalcitrant, pommie shop steward in the union
movement.

Regards, fIM.

 * * Never smirk at the judge..
@EOT:

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