Krztalizer wrote:
"Digger" sounds like how someone
would say the original name if they
had a touch of the sniffles...

"Digger" was an uncomplementary name for either dark-skinned or mixed
race folks in Australia, or at least it was in the past. Perhaps it
was the local equiv of "Sambo", who, when I was a kid, was a savvy
and rather brave youg kid that defeated a hungry pride of lions using
only his wits. How that ever got turned into a racial slur, I will
never know!

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Sadly, everything gets turned into something derogative as I remember it
being turned into a taunt from the white neighbour against his black
neighbour on the crap Brit comedy of some decades ago entitled "Love Thy
Neighbour"! The point of this comedy (like the Alf Garnett character in
"'til Death Us Do Part") was to take the **** out of the bigotted white male
but sometimes these things can be too subtle for most folks.

http://www.phill.co.uk/videos/garnett.html

Richard.