Now, a wowser is commonly someone who looks to crack down on enjoyment.
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Letter 146 Wowser Nation's art forces Australia to question its 'nanny state' ways — if anyone notices.
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Clary Akon, 31020001533, a part-time sculptor, launched Wowser Nation in 2016 with writer-turned-psychologist Francis Merson.
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Wowser Nation says Australia has always zigzagged between relaxed and regulated, but now the pendulum has swung too far toward restriction.
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A drink on the beach and cycling without a helmet are some of the prohibitions (and fines) Wowser Nation want to see relaxed.
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This was, after all, the woman who, in her breakthrough role in the 2017 summer smash "Girls Trip," introduced a wowser of a boudoir trick — it involves citrus — to the wider world.
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When the Wowser Nation art collective put up a poster in 2017 that said "Bondi Joggers Must Wear a Helmet," some Australians smiled at the joke, while others wondered if a new law had been passed.
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Wowser, along with another random monkey, an older monkey, Fanya, and Wukong all head to heaven through Fujin's invitation. While at heaven, Wowser seems to enjoy heaven's fashion, in which he buys a Hawaiian shirt and sun glasses (why would that be in heaven?). Wowser had also been regularly seen riding a heavenly horse after Kongo had become the Protector of the Stables. Thus, it seems that Wowser literally follows the others around everywhere within heaven, and shares in their joys.
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Following the heaven arc, Fanya will still attempt to be by Kongo's side until the end. ;Wowser :A supposedly minor character within Monkey Magic. Wowser had been the original king of Flower Fruit Mountain, in which he is overthrown later on - or more or less gave away his position to the new king, Kongo. Wowser makes another appearance within the anime when he continuously fought off against the villagers beneath Flower Fruit Mountain and against Dupac's heavenly fleet.
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Conclusion of Inquest. - Open Verdict . 16 October 1906. page 5 Wowser John Norton is generally considered as the person who invented the Australian word 'wowser', meaning one whose overdeveloped sense of morality drives them to deprive others of their pleasures; a person regarded as excessively puritanical; a killjoy.
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"Wowser" is an Australian term that refers to a person who seeks to deprive others of behaviour deemed to be immoral or sinful.
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Americans rarely use the word, except as an interjection of surprise. However it appears several times in the works of H. L. Mencken: :"In the same way the Archidamian War is more interesting than the fiscal cares of the Four Hundred, and the craft of Pericles takes precedence of his abilities as tax-collector and wowser." (American Mercury "The Greeks") In Ocean's Thirteen, Basher (Don Cheadle) says to Linus (Matt Damon), "You're such a wowser." when the latter refuses to buy certain types of magazines for him.
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In 1988, the strip was adapted into a Japanese cartoon series named Don Don Domeru to Ron, which was re- titled as Wowser for US audiences. Dubbed by Saban Entertainment, it is the only part of Cubitus that has been translated into English.
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OED: "Wowser" However some authorsHowell, Peter. South Australia and Federation (2002) p. 67 claim that the present meaning originated from an Australian temperance slogan, "We Only Want Social Evils Remedied." This apparent backronym is considered a "less credible provenance" by the ANU.
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The English-language version was produced by Saban Entertainment. Retitled Wowser, the series aired in 1989 on The Family Channel. The dub changed the names of the characters and replaced the original music and also had some scenes removed or edited due to their violent or sexual manner, such as one scene in "The Hip Hippos" where Dingy beats Wowser on the head, and another scene in "Slap Happy Birthday" where a chicken attacks Beatrice, causing her to crash and rip and ruin her dress. In "Self-Cleaning Machine", when Dingy's vaccum backfires when Linda's clothes fly out the window and land in parts of town, a bra lands on a male statue's chest and he covers himself.
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Emacs Web Wowser (a backronym of "eww") is a web browser written entirely in Emacs Lisp. It became part of GNU Emacs starting with version 24.4. If Emacs is compiled with the suitable image libraries, and is used in a graphical environment (such as under the X Window System), it can render images inline directly into Emacs's display buffer. It requires an Emacs built with libxml2 support.
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Statue of Cubitus in Limal. Wowser is a big white dog who has a big appetite and lives with his owner Professor Dingy, who tries to sometimes solves eveyone's problems; and lives right next door to Beatrice, an old lady with brown hair and an apron; Linda Lovely and her brother Bob; and Ratso Catso, a black-and-white cat who often ruins Wowser's day or sometimes sabotages Professor Dingy's inventions.
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"I was the first man publicly to use the word. I first gave it public utterance in the City Council, when I applied it to Alderman G.J. Waterhouse, whom I referred to as the white, woolly, weary, watery, word-wasting wowser from Waverley". Gustavus John Waterhouse (1850-1929) was the Mayor of Waverley on two occasions and was an Alderman on Waverley Council for many years.Sydney Morning Herald.
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Statue of Cubitus in Limal. Cubitus is a Franco-Belgian comics series, and the basis for the Wowser cartoon series appearing in the United States. Cubitus was created by the Belgian cartoonist Dupa, and features Cubitus, a large anthropomorphic dog, who lives with his owner Semaphore. Cubitus is known as Dommel in Flanders and the Netherlands, Muppelo or Pom Pom in Finland, Teodoro in Italy and Доммель in Russia.
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Fraser was later described as having a "larrikin streak" as well as being an "iconic figure", and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. The evolution of larrikinism in Australia is summarised in the publisher's description of a 2012 book by Melissa Bellanta, Larrikins: A History: It can be argued that the larrikin tradition of disdain for authority, propriety and the often conservative norms of bourgeois Australia (as evident, for example, in the country's history of censorship and the nation's receptiveness to paternalistic leaders) are two sides of a self- reinforcing dynamic; the social conservatism of the mainstream fuels the undercurrent of larrikinism and rebellion, which, in turn, is seen as demonstrating that a firm hand is needed. This is sometimes referred to as the "larrikin-wowser nexus", "wowser" being an Australian colloquial term for a person of puritanical mores.Defined by Macquarie Book of Slang (Lambert, J. (ed) Macquarie University, 1996) p.
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The government's popularity never recovered from the budget, which is generally believed to have cost it the 1960 election. Nordmeyer was forever tainted by the 'black budget', which gave him a reputation as a puritanical 'wowser' who was opposed to simple working class pleasures such as automobiles, beer and cigarettes. Despite this, he became the leader of the Labour Party in 1963, but was replaced by the more popular Norman Kirk only two years later.
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Death of G.J.Waterhouse- Obituary: 6 August 1929. The earliest occasion on which the word wowser appears in print in a newspaper in the National Library of Australia's Trove collection was in the Perth Sunday Times on 2 August 1903, on pages 1 and 10. It appeared on page 1 of the same newspaper on 30 August 1903. It seems not to have appeared in print before that time, but was common in that newspaper thereafter.
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Then in 1980 he got his start in voice over roles with Banner the Squirrel. He continued throughout the years performing on stage and in 1983 starred in the rock play All the Difference. In 1984 he started working for Saban Entertainment doing voice over and writing for programs including Wowser and Hallo Spencer, which he said were "the two finest products we produced." His agency, Mobile Monicker Productions, noted that he voiced over 150 characters in his career.
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After the Peach Pandemonium later on, Wowser plays a central role in continuously throwing various weapons to the weaponless Kongo when he had been battling against the enraged Refang. ;Redchimp :A more or less random monkey that is seen with Kongo throughout the earlier episodes at Flower Fruit Mountain. This monkey is vaguely different looking from the ordinary monkey, besides a meager loincloth or so. However, this monkey noticeably possesses the lowest IQ and is always rather reckless.
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New Zealand English terms of Australian origin include bushed (lost or bewildered), chunder (to vomit), drongo (a foolish or stupid person), fossick (to search), jumbuck (sheep, from Australian pidgin), larrikin (mischievous person), Maccas (slang for McDonald's food), maimai (a duckshooter's hide; originally a makeshift shelter, from aboriginal mia-mia), paddock (field, or meadow), pom or pommy (an Englishman), skite (verb: to boast), station (for a very large farm), wowser (non-drinker of alcohol, or killjoy), and ute (pickup truck).
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The whole scene was censored with the statue covering himself. In the UK, it aired on ITV and later on Channel 4 in the early and mid 1990s, and two videos of the series were released in two volumes. In the U.S. in 1990 and 1991, the videos of the Wowser series were released in four volumes, and also in episodes of the running time of 30 minutes and 60 minutes. In Canada, it aired on YTV between 1990 and 1993.
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His first venture in the entertainment world in Melbourne was Astley's Amphitheatre, but his experiences in catering in London inclined him to a profit making business with a wider basis. Because of previous experience he had established contacts in the theatrical world of London. He took advantage of them to create a venue with viable entertainments to divert the population of the rapidly expanding capital of the new Australian state where entertainment was demanded by a predominantly male society. The wowser element in Melbourne did not approve of the pleasure gardens.
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The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch (Atheneum Books, 2008) takes place at the cusp of the California Gold Rush in 1848. Estrella, a Latina, can run so fast she burns up the air, and can leave a trail of flames wherever she runs on her father's rancho north of San Francisco. Her pets—a Kickle Snifter, a Sidehill Wowser, and a Rubberado puppy—are based on 19th-century tall tales and Pourquoi stories, or origin myths. Estrella has the power to heal them, along with wild animals she encounters.
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By 1912, he had cycled around Australia twice and had crossed the continent seven times. In 1912, he became one of the first people to make a west to east crossing by car from Fremantle to Sydney in a Brush Runabout with driver Syd Ferguson. On 21 September 1912 Birtles with his brother Clive and bulldog 'Wowser' left Melbourne in a blue 20 hp Flanders touring car to drive to Sydney, Brisbane, Charters Towers and then to the Gulf of Carpentaria. From the Gulf he drove close to the Northern Territory border and he arrived back in Melbourne in January 1913. On Saturday, 13 February 1915 Birtles left Sydney for a six-month-long motoring tour following Burke and Wills' track.
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