Great Furphies of Australian History by Jim Haynes

Author:Jim Haynes [Jim Haynes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2021-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chunder Loo of Akim Foo goes to sleep as others do.

Dreams he sees the Melbourne Cup, ‘COBRA’ winning—Chunder up.

Shining like a victor’s shield, ‘COBRA’ leads the thund’ring field

Past the packed and cheering host, up the straight and past the post.

Chunder with a beaming face, wakes and cries, ‘I’ve won the race!

Of all dreams, that was a gem! Get my boots and COBRA them!’

The Lindsays and O’Ferrall cleverly made the weekly cartoons topical and amusing. At the start of World War I, Chunder Loo went to war and gave the enemy hell! By this time he had acquired two companions, a koala and a Jack Russell terrier. This was probably Norman’s idea, as nobody drew koalas, dogs or cats better than Norman Lindsay.

There were more than 500 Chunder Loo cartoons created and today the originals are collectors’ items worth thousands of dollars.

All bushmen, working men and soldiers knew the cartoons and, somewhere along the way, Chunder Loo became universal Aussie rhyming slang for ‘spew’ and was used by Australian soldiers in World War I. As is usually the case with such colloquialisms, it was soon shortened to just ‘chunder’.

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