port augusta uber alles

[adelaidesean]

It's easy to accuse Sydney and Melbourne of thinking Australia revolves around them.

They have nothing on Port Augusta.



Capital of "Adelaide"! Now that's forward thinking.

(Scanned from a tourist map I picked up over the weekend. Had a great time there, by the way. Thanks to everyone for dropping in to say hi.)

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Listening to: Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Showfall

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

Porta Gutter!

[maelorin]

lol ... though with port agutta the only place actually marked on the map, it's a very special map indeed =)

[maelorin]

^_^

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

That might explain why some of the pilgrims have got confused about where Sydney is.

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

I like Port Augusta. There are some great fish and chip shops there.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes indeed. We stopped at Pt Wakefield on the way and had fish and chips there. Divine.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! One day they'll change the official spelling to get it right.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Very post-apocalyptic. :-)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

The fish and chips were great in 1977, but the water was foul.

[maelorin]

lol.

*was*

[maelorin]

if only i could write dialogue. there's bound to be a book in there somewhere.

certainly, many a novel has begun with less ...

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I hope it has improved. God it was mineral heavy.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Some things never change...

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Post Augusta - better than Whyalla.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Better than the middle of the Nullabour.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Actually I quite like the middle of the Nullarbor.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Not a very catchy slogan. :-)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Gosnells, in Perth's eastern suburbs, went for many years with this slogan on all the signs leading into town (I am not making this up):

"GOSNELLS - RECLAIMING THE DIGNITY!"

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Bizarre, but better than "All the way with SA", which made our state sound like a bit of a slut.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Better than "The premier state" which sounded like we were really up ourselves.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

There was a not dissimilar map of Australia in a Call of Cthulhu supplement, Terror Australis. From memory, Perth had been relocated either to Geraldton or Bunbury, and Sydney was missing completely.

I'm told the authors were Melbournian.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I've only been there twice - on the way to Perth and on the way back. In 1977. In a dark red valiant.

[maelorin]

lol. i remember that supplement.

t'was not the craziest 'official' rpg publication to rewrite australian geography.

[maelorin]

lol. improved.

ahem.

water in country south aussie has been shite for a very long time. makes it the perfect place to have a water filter business.

[maelorin]

oh dear gods in small country towns ...

as if agutta or waa-alla are much to fight over ...

[disclaimer: i spent much of my so-called childhood and yooof in waa-alla]

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I was born there.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

We Whyallans are everywhere. :-)

[maelorin]

it wasn't the most suggestive of state slogans, if i recall correctly.

[maelorin]

*hugs* sorry about that.

[so was my brother]

[maelorin]

note that we're not in whyalla ^_^

[maelorin]

we'd like to be up ourselves. but that's too much effort :p

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

No, we're out in the world, plotting domination with those ambitious Pt Augustans. :-)

[maelorin]

^_^

though as i recall, they were our competitors back in the day.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

So was *my* brother!! : )

[maelorin]

we could almost be twins!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I'll remember to bring one with me when I visit.

Pt Augusta

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from Pt Augusta! (Though now I'm in Adelaide...) And It's not us Pt Augustians or Whyallarites that people should be worried about. It's Port Pirie that is all for World Dominiation. (Plus there was a great takeaway there that made fantastic hamburgers - I think it was called The Alexander....)

NB: Did you know that Pt Augusta was seriously touted to be Australia's Capital when Federation was up for discussion?

Hayley
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