Well, Judy, buckle on your broad-mainded understanding and hark !! On a Blue Lagoon Cruise of the Fijian Islands, we had met a fun couple from Sydney. Several weeks later we were in Sydney, staying with another friend at Bondi Beach. We took Peter with us when we went to Steve's and Val's for a dinner party/barbie. It was our very first visit to Oz, so we weren't yet "into" Aussie slang. When we came into Steve's and Val's place, I removed my bum bag, not wanting to be encumbered with it all evening, and asked, "where can I put my fanny pack ??" Val (in fun) reacted in horror and, running to her high-school-age son and clapping her hands over his ears, cried, "don't listen, don't listen !!" I turned to Peter and asked what I'd said, whereupon he informed me that, in Australia, "fanny" is a VERY vulgar term for the female genitalia !! He said, "Dave, down here we call them 'bum bags'." So, it's been my "bum bag" ever since. Dave Ross