User:Reillyd

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I'm David Reilly. I don't know why (maybe I'm biased!) but I love the name, and want to do a David Reilly page for every one of us on the planet (that is, if we're famous or published, or did something important)

Contents 1 David Reilly's of the world 2 shortcuts 3 my accounts on other projects 4 fully sick mid edit 5 Origins 6 References

[edit] David Reilly's of the world

Two important ones so far, David Reilly (Singer) and David Reilly (scientist)!

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Category:Psychological_theories psych. Category:Psychology stubs Category:Sexual_references_in_popular_culture

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• Wiktionary

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The term fully sick is an Australian neologism popularised by a nationwide television advertising campaign in 2005, and adopted by the sporting celebrity Ian Thorpe. It is usually said in jest or in a sarcastic manner, to mean something really cool. At time of writing, there were 55,000 web pages with the phrase "fully sick"" on the Google search engine^[1]

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This term originated in Australia, as part of an Uncle Toby television advertising campagin, featuring prominent Australian sportsman Ian Thorpe^[2]. Two kids are refusing to eat the product, and the mother (naturally) rings Ian Thorpe for support.

Ian Thorpe: "Tell them the taste is fully-sick!" Mum: "Thorpey says it's fully sick!" Narrator: "Thorpey says the taste is fully sick!"

The ad campaign served two purposes, to create a recognisble urban neologism, and to make Ian Thorpe's public image more ethnic, using a Lebanese expression. In the television ad, Ian Thorpe trys to convince children to eat an unappealing food item by telling them that "Thorpey says the taste is fully sick!" (and hence the unpalatable becomes appealing)

[edit] References

1. ^ Google fully sick [1]
2. ^ Urban Dictionary fully sick [2]