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A solid lead or another dead end? Jill knew what to do. She posted a query on a message board run by Australian disciples of the Straight Dope. (They call themselves "the Teeming Handful"--check them out at https://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope.) The response: (a) "It's definitely an Aussie [urban legend] that twit stands for a pregnant goldfish. It was one of those 'facts' we all knew at school." (b) It's not in the Macquarie Book of Slang, the definitive work on Australian colloquial speech, or in any other available book of Australian slang. (c) "I've asked my friends who are vets, and it's not a term used by either them or by fish breeders."
So there you have it. You can bullshit the experts all you want. But the Teeming Millions know.
A solid lead or another dead end? Jill knew what to do. She posted a query on a message board run by Australian disciples of the Straight Dope. (They call themselves "the Teeming Handful"--check them out at https://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope.) The response: (a) "It's definitely an Aussie [urban legend] that twit stands for a pregnant goldfish. It was one of those 'facts' we all knew at school." (b) It's not in the Macquarie Book of Slang, the definitive work on Australian colloquial speech, or in any other available book of Australian slang. (c) "I've asked my friends who are vets, and it's not a term used by either them or by fish breeders."
So there you have it. You can bullshit the experts all you want. But the Teeming Millions know.
