In a recent newsletter, I said that this summer I would be able to fulfill a life long dream by saying (since I will be in Australia) – "Put another shrimp on the Barbie".
Fred Phillips writes me:
"Barry, I was in Oz for the 1985 operations research meetings. The conference banquet was an Aussie barbecue. The chef kept spraying the coals with a garden hose so they wouldn’t vaporize the little crustaceans. One of our PhDs in O.R. asked him, "Is that water you’re spraying on the grill?" Chef replied, "No, mate, it’s champagne."
Jonathan writes:
"By the way, I spent a semester in Melbourne, Australia in college and this is the main thing I learned: they don’t say shrimp, they say prawns! Several Australians pointed out that they paid Paul Hogan a lot of money to say shrimp. ;)"
Just saw in the paper that this movie, Crocodile Dundee was made for $13M and grossed over $300m!
