Was there a gypsy curse involved?
No, but surpsingly sex with a teenage slayer was involved.
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Frankenbuddha - Apr 02, 2005 11:01:25 am PST #7602 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
sumi - Apr 02, 2005 12:40:08 pm PST #7603 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
So, billytea, was Canberra built on a swamp?
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 12:46:58 pm PST #7604 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So, billytea, was Canberra built on a swamp?
No, it was built on the Limestone Plains. One politician at the time referred to it as "A waste of good sheep country".
Incidentally, Canberra today has three times as many trees than there were before it was built.
Was there a gypsy curse involved?
Yeah, let's go with that. Canberra wound up where it was because neither Sydney nor Melbourne was willing to let the other be the nation's capital, so there may have been cursing involved.
No, but surpsingly sex with a teenage slayer was involved.
Canberra is also regarded as the sex capital of Australia (first place to legalise licenced prostitution and such like), so maybe this one too.
Nutty - Apr 02, 2005 1:08:57 pm PST #7605 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
and being a city without a soul
I find Washington DC is often like this. Anyway, there's a certain freakish rootlessness, when the cultural winds shift at every election. We used to joke that 9pm was the best time to get a dinner reservation, because all the civil servants would be on their way to bed by then.
(Which is not to say there weren't film festivals, opera, free museums, and stuff like that; but compared to Baltimore, DC was an airport concourse.)
DXMachina - Apr 02, 2005 1:15:44 pm PST #7606 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
compared to Baltimore, DC was an airport concourse
But with better museums.
Nilly - Apr 02, 2005 9:08:50 pm PST #7607 of 9843
Swouncing
Poking head to wish health and all good things to Jim and Penny, and congrats to Moonlit!
evil jimi - Apr 03, 2005 4:55:20 am PDT #7608 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Australian officials are waxing euphoric over the apparently limitless budget Warner Bros. has given Superman Returns, which began production in the state of New South Wales last month. The state's treasurer, Dr. Andrew Refshauge, told the Australian Associated Press, "It's going to be one of the biggest film projects ever made in Australia -- bigger than the Matrix trilogy." He said that it will generate A$100 million (US$77 million) for the state's economy and create more than 10,000 jobs.
Betsy HP - Apr 03, 2005 5:00:06 pm PDT #7609 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Yeah, let's go with that. Canberra wound up where it was because neither Sydney nor Melbourne was willing to let the other be the nation's capital, so there may have been cursing involved.
This is true about Washington, DC. Maybe we've established how you create a city with no soul. See also: Brasilia.
meara - Apr 03, 2005 9:36:50 pm PDT #7610 of 9843
Hmph. DC has plenty of soul, these days. Though no voting rights. t /defensive resident
billytea - Apr 04, 2005 2:28:15 am PDT #7611 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is true about Washington, DC.
Yep, there's more than one parallel. I suspect that's at least partly deliberate, such as the model of defining a separate territory for it (though the ACT gets Parliamentary representation).