I wasn't making it up, you really do see the word 'boffin' in Australian newspapers. It cropped up today in The Age. The article itself ("new supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations") doesn't use the word, but the teaser on the Age's online homepage says "Boffins have harnessed Sony's PS3 game console to create... "
In the same vein, there's a truly appalling article in the SMH about travelling on London's Northern Line, and how it's a rich tapestry of the human experience and whatnot. This is clearly written by someone who's grown up in Perth and has just gotten off the plane.
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The Northern Line is a rich experience if you enjoy being crammed into a steel tube that travels at forty miles per hour, though a tunnel filled with a mutant mosquitoes that have never seen the light of day, with several hundred strangers that smell somewhere between Chanel No.5 and vomit and you don’t mind have your toes stepped, your nose in someones armpit on or you bag stolen.
Ahh... How I miss London! ;-)
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