In May 2013 I was discussing slang with Jari Kirma on IRC, and I mentioned the expression “Black as the arsehole of death”. Jari went looking for it, and came up with only a single hit—in my diary for June 1967. I had never thought of it as being anything to do with me: I had it from my father, who presumably learnt it during his service in the RAN during the Second World War. Another one I've heard from him—but not in the last 50 years—was “Up in aunty Aggie's room, behind the tango clock”, presumably a location for something lost. I can't find that one on Google at all, though presumably it will show up after this page gets searched.

There are probably more such expressions that will occur to me at some time. This page will then grow appropriately.