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So does the former name for the colony, Van Diemen's Land (so named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman), or its facetious variant, Vandemonia (former Tasmanian convicts being known on the mainland as Vandemonians).
The LAT 's "Column One" details a corollary of Russia's constitutional provision that no member of its parliament can be prosecuted for a crime while in office: One hundred and five of this year's candidates are convicts and four others are wanted by police.
But it almost simultaneously developed a secondary sense as a noun meaning nonsense, rubbish, a synonym for the more frequently used gammon , a British cant word for guile or deceit that the convicts brought with them and which also moved in the direction of nonsense or humbug.
Over the past three months, the committee brags, it has hanged four accused murderers, banished 30 criminals and troublemakers from the region and run untold numbers of "Sydney Ducks"--as convicts from Australia are known--out of town.
This was one time I felt exactly like him,as we three stood pondering our dilemma calmly, maturely.And I did again when he yelled I'm scaredas the clunker with wide headlights and bad muffler("Hell Wagon" or "Devil's Dream" no doubt inscribed on the fender--voted Car Of The Year by escaped convicts and serial killers)glided like a crocodile toward our throbbing, imported taillightsand idled there.