What is worse, the name of this fish, or that the coastline seems to be brought to you by Teh Mormon? They can have more than one old wife right?
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Named by a seafarer too long away from port? Unfortunate that they wimped out with East and West. Front and Rear Intercourse Islands would have worked much better. And why no Intercourse Passage? A display from the WA Museum showing the Dampier Archipelago, or The Leg-over Archipelago which was the original name. Yesterday The pre-eminent [...]
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Look, I’m as supportive of Edith Cowan as the next man, but finding out she was called Dircksey, makes me want to question whether she really was the first woman in parliament. Hey Dirksey, could you drop a new donk in the ute mate? A more manly name than Hendy Cowan too.
I used to hate [...]
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Christ The Scientist? For some reason I always had him down as a Creationist. Couldn’t see in to check if there were beakers and bunsen burners. You’d expect the occasional explosion or pink smoke pouring out the windows though. Interesting Building nonetheless. Tom might have some information. Love the gates. It’s at the top of [...]
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You know, I would have been tempted to go with Value Burger. Budget tyres fine. Budget cars, no problem, but Budget Burger? Rivervale.
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Worst School (Name)
We had a post a while ago on inappropriate school names and it was pointed out that The Worst of Perth editor’s own primary school might fall into the same category. So here is Mary’s Mount Primary School in Davies Road Gooseberry Hill, where the character of The lazy Aussie was formed. [...]
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