On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Just as another side note;
I heard the word 'jabru' many, many times both as I was growing up & right up until my father passed away.
He was a career ArmyAirCorps/AAF/USAF pilot who started out in WWII & went on from there.
The phrase he used was "from here to jabru" as in "That's gonna' be screwed up from here to jabru".

google couldn't find anything for "from here to jabru"

But "Jabiru" is both a small town in Australia - located in the middle of a national park - and an Australian aircraft manufacturer. Both town and company were founded in the early 1980s.

I therefore suspect that your WWII vintage "from here to jabru" means something like "from here to Fabled/Remote Nowhere," similiar to the more familiar "from here to Timbuktu."

Richard Aiken

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