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Originally Posted by OldTimer
Here's another review of the Brisbane rain-fest, not nearly as entertaining as DoubtfulMiracle's..... 
(and BTW if you or jaycee are reading this, what are "punters"?) |
Well thank you, kind Sir!
Re: "punters"... I'm always disturbed by how difficult I find it to articulate the meaning of a word. The punters here are simply the audience members, as you could probably glean from the context. Agreeing that punter is an odd sort of word, and one that I would more commonly use to mean 'a gambler', I turned to trusty Wikipedia for a more satisfying explanation. Here's what the oracle says about it:
"The word punter may refer to a British, Australian and Hiberno (Irish) English colloquial term for a paying guest or customer, especially
a) a patron of a public house (pub, hotel, tavern)
b) a patron of a brothel
c) a customer of a prostitute
d) a gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing or a player in the game of Baccarat
e) a beginner skier or snowboarder, especially one with particularly bad style
f) a speculator in the stock market."
I actually think some of those examples might be getting just a touch specific; aside from d), a) is really the only one I would hear commonly. Could be the circles I run in -- or don't run in as the case may be