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Posted by Declan on January 19, 2007, at 20:32:12
A sense of fatigue seems to have come over the Europeans who gave names to Australian landmarks.
So many Lake Disappointments, Mt Miserys, the tiredness implicit in Snake Creek, you may have heard of Useless Loop, and up in the Pilbarra someone actually called a mountain Mt Nameless.
I don't have the enthusiasm to assume any interest in this; I had enough trouble typing it out.
Posted by ClearSkies on January 19, 2007, at 21:13:46
In reply to No Springfields in Australia, posted by Declan on January 19, 2007, at 20:32:12
It feels weird for me to live in a place where towns are named Treasure Island, Winter Haven, Paradise Island. We even have have a Hollywood.
I'm a traitor for feeling depressed living here.
Posted by Gee on January 19, 2007, at 21:16:32
In reply to Re: No Springfields in Australia » Declan, posted by ClearSkies on January 19, 2007, at 21:13:46
Treasure Island?? That would be so weird!!!
Posted by Declan on January 19, 2007, at 21:33:20
In reply to Re: No Springfields in Australia » Declan, posted by ClearSkies on January 19, 2007, at 21:13:46
That is one of the reassuring things about living in Australia.
But just up the road we have the Gold Coast, Florida Gardins, Miami Keys, the whole lot. We preserved our sense of (fragile) Englishness by pronouncing Miami 'meeaaami', which worked when we were 10.
Posted by Phillipa on January 19, 2007, at 22:20:10
In reply to Re: No Springfields in Australia » ClearSkies, posted by Declan on January 19, 2007, at 21:33:20
Florida has great names. Sanibel Island, Isamaralda in the keys, Panama City, Jupiter, Hollywood Beach and the Treasure Island. Are there shells there? Love Phillipa
Posted by Declan on January 20, 2007, at 2:13:51
In reply to Re: No Springfields in Australia, posted by Phillipa on January 19, 2007, at 22:20:10
Posted by Declan on January 20, 2007, at 2:17:57
In reply to Re: No Springfields in Australia, posted by Phillipa on January 19, 2007, at 22:20:10
Freycinet, a peninsular on the east coast of Tasmania has so many shells.
It makes me wonder if all beaches used to be like this before we got to them??
The beach IS more or less shells, all sorts, oysters and univalve shells, the ones like huge snails and conches. Quite something.
Posted by TexasChic on January 20, 2007, at 19:56:41
In reply to Ismaralda is pretty cool (nm) » Phillipa, posted by Declan on January 20, 2007, at 2:13:51
Or was it an Aunt? Awww, the seventies, so murky and nostalgic. Shrinky Dinks, Slinkys (that never went downstairs like on tv), Chinese Checkers, Pick up Sticks, 'CHiPs', Bay City Rollers, and record players that folded up into a little suitcase like things.
Sorry, off subject.
-T
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