Re: The shot is up...and its good! General Sports Discussion
Posted: Sep 09, 2015 11:59 pm
@IlF: Sydney Swans started by taking over a South Melbourne club, their colours being red and white. Perhaps your brother felt that Swans ought to mean the Western Australian black swan?
Years ago, my cousin and I went on a wonderful excursion to Koala Park. On the way home she saw what she thought was a cemetery. But when I followed her gaze, it was a cricket game at a suburban oval. She never lived it down. Neither did cricket in my opinion.
Yes I suspected it might be something like that, though forty niner just happens to rhyme with miner, which could be any valuable mineral product. But thank you and aileth for the answers. I thought the California gold rush started significantly earlier though than the first confirmed Australian discovery of gold at Bathurst in 1851 or even earlier. It seems to have been gold for Jarryd Haynes though.
Years ago, my cousin and I went on a wonderful excursion to Koala Park. On the way home she saw what she thought was a cemetery. But when I followed her gaze, it was a cricket game at a suburban oval. She never lived it down. Neither did cricket in my opinion.
gymfan wrote:I suspect it comes from the California Gold Rush in 1849, and Wikipedia confirms it:
Yes I suspected it might be something like that, though forty niner just happens to rhyme with miner, which could be any valuable mineral product. But thank you and aileth for the answers. I thought the California gold rush started significantly earlier though than the first confirmed Australian discovery of gold at Bathurst in 1851 or even earlier. It seems to have been gold for Jarryd Haynes though.