in Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, granting a damehood to McKenzie's aunt, Edna Everage. Character The character was a parody of the boorish Australian overseas, particularly those residing in Britain – ignorant, loud, crude, drunk, and pugnacious – although McKenzie also proved popular with Australians because he embodied some of their positive characteristics: he was friendly, forthright, and straightforward with his British hosts, who themselves were often portrayed as stereotypes of pompous, arrogant, devious colonialists. McKenzie frequently employs euphemisms for bodily functions or sexual allusions, one of the most well-known being "technicolour yawn" (vomiting). The film popularised several Australian euphemisms and slang terms which are still used today in the Australian vernacular (such as "point Percy at the porcelain", "sink the sausage", "pillow-biter" [homosexual] and "flash the nasty"). Some of the sayings were invented by Humphries, while other terms were borrowed from existing Australian slang such as "chunder" and "up shit creek" (adopted by the Australian poetry magazine Shit Creek Review). Men at Work lead singer Colin Hay said that the lyrics for "Down Under" were inspired by the Barry McKenzie character. See also Private Eye books References Comedy theatre characters Comedy film characters Ethnic humour Barry McKenzie Australian comics characters Barry McKenzie Barry McKenzie Barry McKenzie Barry McKenzie Comics characters introduced in 1964 Theatre characters introduced in 1964 Private Eye Fictional Australian people Male characters in comics Male characters in theatre Male characters in film Barry McKenzie