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Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
time: 15:14
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Originally posted by finbar
Spring Hill, Brisbane.
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*Raz narrows the search area*
Last edited by Alexander's Horse on 22-06-2001 at 11:33
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Rasputin
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Brisbane
May 1999
time: 15:14
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Not that far left if you can actually spell Finny , you dont drink enough beer either to be a lefty...
Dont know Bardon (Barden ??) probably another Yuppie suburb. For real down to earth Left wing Labor voters , you need to come down to Logan and Woodridge, they get much lefter than that lot.
If you looking for real yokels the rednecks, go north to Redcliffe or West to Ipswich, great fun !!!
I live about 35 minutes south of Brissie central, about 30 minutes to Gold Coast... New mortgage belt of Brisbane, us wannabes if we couldbes , cant afford Spring Hill , but dont like the cheap suburbs either people live in Drewvale.......
No cable modem access out here, damn backward state...
At elast back in Perth I could have got cable....
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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:14
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
A cheerio would be nice, we miss you  |
And a big cheerio to all my Civ buddies in the Deep South - and, in Hydey's (aka the Mexican's) case, the Deep Deep South. 
Okay, team, here's a lateral thinking puzzle for you all. It's taken from the first episode of this series I'm up here developing. (The series is 13 eps, set in a run-down motel in a small country town called Fat Cow. Each episode contains a lateral thinking puzzle that must be solved by the audience before the next week's episode)
Anyway, a man of about 70 is found dead in room 11 of the Fat Cow motel. He's lived there quietly and pretty anonymously for about 40 years. He didn't bother anyone, and no one bothered him. Evidence comes to light that it could, in fact, have been Buddy Holly. Amazingly, pubic hair taken from the dead man is DNA matched with DNA from Buddy Holly's surviving relatives in the States. So the man who died in the Fat Cow motel turns out, in fact, to have been Buddy Holly.
But Buddy Holly is known to have died in a light plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1959. He's known to be buried in the town graveyard in Lubbock, Texas.
How then did he come to live for roughly 40 years in the Fat Cow motel?
(That - and similar - is what I've been up to for the last couple of weeks!  )
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Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
time: 15:14
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Woden is a district not a suburb. Only what is called the town centre is Woden suburb, but the surrounding suburbs are also called Woden, "I live in Woden, at Pearce" for example. The district is also known more commonly here as the Woden Valley.
What can I say about it? The real estate agents say its the "geographical heart of Canberra" 
Its probably best known for lots of suburbs built in the sixties and seventies full of what are now called "ex-govie" houses, mostly off the plan brick veneer jobs with crappy aluminium windows and no decent heating. These houses are really pokey in their native state but because of the geographical advantages, "one bus to parliament and civic" (Canberra's CBD) as the agents say, its rapidly gentrified. People are renovating houses all over the place, the population is ageing.
Southside, families mostly live further out where I am, in the Tuggeranong Valley, also known as "nappy valley". Tuggeranong has the highest concentration of children under 5 in Australia, the lowest number of old people and the highest number intact nuclear families!! But please don't take the piss out of tuggers, we suffer enough from those ageing baby boomer c#nts in Woden 
That help? This is a very weird city. But we like it.
If you're still writing that, I've been meaning to mention Howard is having trouble attracting even secretarial staff for his office. Twice in 3 weeks we've had a notice come around seeking expressions of interest to work in the PM's office as a personal assistant. That's very unusual. Usually you have to know someone inside to get a job in the PM's office. They are usually highly prized jobs. The last notice almost said "immediate start" Somebody, anybody?
Public servants notice things like that, as someone said to me, "this government is starting to get the smell of death about it." They are hated down here as you know because they blame us for everything, cut the public service to buggery, removed our permanence and rubbished our professionalism. Fine, you want to play it that way? We can play it that way too 
The public service has its revenge by leaking everything, especially when their ministers are in trouble - every one that has resigned has had a little help from a judicious leak; and by making Canberra a very very lonely town for a government MP. We Canberrans delight in making them feel unwelcome, its almost become a new town sport.
Mostly they just get the cold shoulder but I have personally given the finger salute to De-Anne Kelly and David Kemp, who is in charge of the public service. He pulled up next to me in his chauffeur driven comcar at the lights on the way to work one day and smiled at me, so I gave him the finger and mouthed a "f#ck you" for his trouble. They always pretend it never happened, I guess its like sexual assault for a polly - its a dark secret, they are in denial, they can't admit to being unpopular, even in a town they loathe
F#ck em, its personal, they hate us so we hate them and this is Australia so you can do stuff like that when you're on your own time. Howard won't even live here, which a lot of people took as a personal snub. It wasn't always like this - Menzies was really the father of the Canberra. But governments come and go, we will still be here in the end. I think people here know that - but we hate how unpopular Canberra has become. It used to be a source of national pride, a great nation building project like the Snowy scheme. We blame the pollies for the Canberra bashing, but particularly this government for not defending the place.
Last edited by Alexander's Horse on 27-06-2001 at 18:58
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