Aerial Ping-Pong

Martha, I bet you have more quiz for me.

How did you know?

I know you.

You do know me.

You want to stump the stumper.

I do.

I have another term for you from the Australian National Dictionary.

All right.

Let’s hear it.

Okay.

What is aerial ping pong?

Aerial ping pong?

Mm—

Is this when you don’t buckle up and you get turbulence on a flight?

I don’t know.

I like that with a little chundering besides.

Yeah, right, right.

I don’t know.

I don’t know what that is.

Aerial ping pong in Australia is a term for Australian national football, which, of course, isn’t football.

It’s soccer.

Oh, they do a lot of kicking, right?

Yeah.

So the ball is always in the air.

Right, right.

There we go.

Bouncing off your head.

Aerial ping pong.

I love it.

You’ve got to go to this site.

You’ve got to go to waywordradio.org and click on the link to the Australian National Dictionary.

You won’t get much work done that afternoon, but…

Right.

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