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Awww thanks for thinking of me R2 [and my unhealthy RW addiction]...would it surprise you to know I am trying to snavel tickets to the one and only Berlin show??

Ran across this little tidbit in a Q&A Celebrity gossip newspaper column:

Q: I heard that they are going to remake "Saturday Night Fever." Are they going to use John Travolta as an older Tony? I loved that film. -- K.N.

A: No. Barry and Robin Gibb of the BeeGees are behind the new film, which is planned as a remake of the original '70s-era film, bringing it up to the current day. But instead of tracking Tony, they're going to recast the role, and at the moment they're looking at singer Robbie Williams as the star.

- Gossip, by Robin Adams Sloan, King Features Syndicate

Thought you might be interested....

Sounds de Lovely

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
Awww thanks for thinking of me R2 [and my unhealthy RW addiction]...would it surprise you to know I am trying to snavel tickets to the one and only Berlin show??

Go on, Lexie, I give up - they must be pondisms across the even bigger pond!

• RW (for me, it means Read-Write)
  
• Snavel (something to do with a belly-button?)
  

You are going to Berlin for a show? Long way! Can't be - must mean something else.

RW = Robbie Williams and, Lexie, being a bird is bound to consider 10,000 miles just to see her idol no big deal!

Snavel = snaffle?!

R2

R2 knows me too well.

Mike, please tell me you KNOW who Robbie Williams is?

And yes, being a chick, I dont care how far I have to travel to see the man.

A snaffle is a bit for a horse's mouth down here.

Ah - light dawns. All six braincells firing now.
Google gave me Results 1 - 10 of about 47,600,000 for RW, so there was no way I associated it with Robbie Williams, who I do know, in the sense of having heard of him (quite a lot), but not heard him.
Snaffle is same in UK; 'twas 'snavel' that I thought was summat to do with 'navel' - 3 inches north of Confucius' crabs
So you are really going from Oz to Germany, Lexie? Sheesh! What can I say?

From Google define: snaffle

Definitions of snaffle on the Web:

snap up: get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"
a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb
fit or restrain with a snaffle; "snaffle a horse"

No definitions were found for Snavel.

R2

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Originally posted by Smart:
Encarta® World English Dictionary

snavel

Australia steal: to steal or filch something, usually something relatively unimportant ( informal )


[Late 18th century. Origin ?]

As I suspected - 'twas an Oz-ism