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I come from the land of chunder

Posted on Wednesday, 15th October 2003 at 8:16pm

This is the song I’ve had in my head all day long (Song is to the tune of ‘land down under’ by men at work)…

I come from the land of chunder
Where rivers flow full of chunder
Can’t ya hear, can’t ya hear, chunderrrrrrr
Ya’ better run, ya’ better take coverrrrrr

I don’t know if I’ve heard it somewhere before or if I made it up, all I know is it popped into my head this morning while I was in the shower and it has been on my mind all day. My mind is a strange place full of html, songs about chunder and oprah show dreams.

Anyways, over the last few days I’ve been setting up a new forum. I decided to put one up because I was bored and felt like doing something else besides moving furniture all day. Yes, I’ve had a forum before and I ended up killing it with a cyber axe, but hopefully this one will live to be a middle aged or old forum… Imagine it, the forum will be looking for its cyber cane to hit spammers with, telling a lot of “in my day” stories while trying to find its cyber teeth.

Have you ever noticed how I go completely off topic and start rambling about odd things all the time?

12 Responses to “I come from the land of chunder”

Reagen Ward Says:
February 10th, 2004 at 11:59am
So, what does ‘chunder’ mean anyway? In the original song, he says ‘and men chunder,’ leaving me wondering if I’m missing out on some insightful aussie comment.

While I’m at it, what does mulching mean?
bobsully Says:
February 20th, 2004 at 9:06pm
Chunder means to vomit; generally chunky in nature. Gross, but you asked….
Drakhir Says:
March 1st, 2004 at 12:02am
Your lyrics are actually from ‘Land Down Under’ by Men at Work, only slightly different:
I come from a land down under,
when women glow, and men chunder.
Can you hear can you hear the thunder
You better go, you better take cover.
It’s chorus 2 or 3, as they are all slightly different.
Hope that helps sort things out
Kitta Says:
March 1st, 2004 at 12:45am
Yeah, I kind of pointed that out in my entry.
Unred Dave Says:
May 25th, 2004 at 3:55pm
As I understand it, chunder was originally coined by the early settlers of Oz whilst aboard the ships taking them to their new home. As the seas grew rough and stomachs beagn to turn, the people would run to the rail and yell “watch under!” before they let loose a volley of vomit into the sea. As the voyage progressed, the time between warning and action diminished until “Chunder!” was all they could manage to get out …
fuzzy Says:
November 10th, 2004 at 11:22am
the word chunder only appears once through out the whole song and isnt in the context you all have it in the wrong spot
“I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover”
every other time you have put chunder in most ur comment its really plunder.
Travis Says:
February 27th, 2005 at 4:48am
The OED recognizes chunder. It’s unclear to me why I took the time to replicate the markup, or even comment on a post from 2003, but there you go.

Chunder, v. intr.

Austral. slang.

1950 ‘N. SHUTE’ Town like Alice iii. 76 The way these bloody Nips go on. Makes you chunda. 1953 BAKER Australia Speaks vii. 169 Chunder, to vomit; whence, chundering, vomiting; also chunder, a noun, vomit. 1956 ‘N. SHUTE’ Beyond Black Stump v. 155 But I gets sick at the stomach. I chundered once today already. 1967 J. CLEARY Long Pursuit x. 229 ‘I wouldn’t go for the chunda, sport.’.. Polo mimed a vomiting motion. 1969 Listener 24 Apr. 588/2 This mountainously jawed extrovert chunders (or vomits) his way through the kangaroo valley of Earl’s Court in pursuit of Sheilas. 1970 Private Eye 2 Jan. 12 Many’s the time we’ve chundered in the same bucket. Ibid. 10 Apr. 16 Pom dogs have rolled around in a lot worse stuff than a nice fresh chunder.

Followup question: do the Australians have differences with British English as we Americans do? Do they have a comprehensive, well-respected dictionary that they might prefer to the OED? I’ve run across a few words where, if in America, you’d definitely want to refer to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition in preference to the OED if you want to talk to the locals. Unfortunately, I can’t remember any examples at the moment.
Kitta Says:
February 28th, 2005 at 10:44pm
We have The Australian Oxford Dictionary.
Me Says:
April 14th, 2005 at 3:59am
what i want to know is what the last 2 versus of the chorus mean.
“Cant you hear, Cant you hear the thunder”
“You better run you better take cover”

I really dont understand what this part of the song is referring to? Any help?
JW Says:
October 5th, 2005 at 3:40am
Colin Hay reveals most of the meaning here…

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2962&

except the thunder/take cover bit. I’d hazard a guess it’s either:

a) aussies full of beer about to blow off, (in tune with the comic part of the song), or
b) the sound of whites plundering the land of australia (the main meaning of the song).
JW Says:
October 6th, 2005 at 2:31am
Or, most likely, thunder represents people angry with the white Aussies for pluindering australia so they’d better leg it.
singh Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 11:02am
thunder beacuse in aussie outback you can smell and hear the storm when its about to come.

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