When I first started The Worst of Perth, I ran down to Murray Street to find the famous Mr Fist sign, but unfortunately it had gone. It was somewhere near the Bra Bar in Murray Street. The original was rendered in terrible stick on letters you might buy from Bunnings. I was delighted that Tim found thet Teh Fist was still punching em out down some alley, but disappointed that he’s slightly upgraded his graphic design. There should be a Miss Fist for the ladies too. The Mr Fist sign should be heritage protected.
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Although I didn’t capture the awesome stick-on lettering, you can see the painted Mr Fist sign, along with its worst-worthy neighbour, the “Prosperous Raw Fish” sign at the Happy Buddha, in this clip from 1995. Pity there was no Google Street View back then!
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I would have that thought “teh” would be getting stale by now. Your refreshing overuse of an unfunny premise sure showed me.
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I alone will keep using it, though all around have fallen. I will soon begin to wear crocs to. I mean teh crocks.
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Pierre, you’re talking to teh man who recently tried to bring back “bogus”. There’s no helping a man like that.
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I still use teh quite frequently, but more often than not I make a typo and it comes out as the. Very uncool.
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Steady.
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can some-one tell me why the Associated Opticians are ‘Coy’? Do they not like being seen?
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Associated Opticians Coy goes back to the early 1900’s from memory, must have been the accepted abbreviation back then . Mr Fist is a very competent and experienced optician.
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Does ‘teh’ mean ‘the’ and isn’t it just the same number of letters, anyway?
Also, do I pronounce it “tay” or just read it out like I’m some sort of fucking retard? Thanks.
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Its a joke Kotter
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“Still punching ’em out.” Top work 10/10.
I suddenly got the joke about 2 days late. I was imagining him punching out the lenses from his lens mold machine making. Thingy.
Mr Fist’s sign is seminal. I’m also kicking myself for never taking a happy snap.
I kinda wished he was a proctologist, but.
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I kinda wished he was a proctologist, but.
Brilliant.
I too remember the good old days of Mr Fist, optometrist. Sort of rolls off the tongue.
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You should go inside – it’s like going back to the 1960’s. Even in the “new premises” (in the foyer of the Mantra on Murray hotel) – o’course still next to the Bra Bar – well behind anyway – it’s like going into a time warp. Have a chat to Sue and Mr & Mrs Fist while you are there!
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This is unfunny and stupid.
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It takes one to know one,
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Yes, it is.
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No. It’s just an optometrists.
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Talk to the hand.
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Don’t encourage TLA.
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Peter Garrett is the antipodean Madonna. There is no better cultural barometer in this country.
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Oh Dear,
“Colleagues contradict Garrett over return of “Talk to the hand.” PM Gillard said, “With all respect to Peter, he was touting “bogus” last we…
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Re twitter, got this angry mention from DenisT3T
@theworstofperth bout time to to get off ur high horse re Rocko. Been there lately, if at all? Bit of a drive from the sheltered NOR?
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Went there, did this:
Possibly Worst beach start for a triathlon – need to run half a mile before it’s deep enough to swim. That wouldn’t be so bad – the running out again is a killer!
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Yes, I’d be running, swimming, peddling as fast as I can to get out of there too. I’d be unsurprised if a world record was broken.
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Yeah sure, I’m going to leave the safe confines (lead carbonate aside) of Fremantle for the shores of Rocky. There’s enough bogans coming up from Rockingham to Freo each weekend to remind me of the reasons I would not want to go there buddy.
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I was there last week. Still THE place to go if you like your coastline covered with industry and grime.
They’ve spent far too much money polishing it when they should be rolling it in glitter.
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Turd Management 101 – available online via ECU website
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Not The Turd Whisperer?
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excellent.
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Mercifully, yes, it is a long drive.
And someone seems to have nicked Dennis’s other ‘n’. Probably happens all the time in Rocko.
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I assumed it was a typo, and the D was meant to be a P.
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Note PenisT3T didn’t have the kahunas to come here and say that.
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Lives in Como apparently. Who in Como would bother defending a hole like Rockingham?
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I smell a leadership spill.
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is Rockingham nice? I’ve never been to the seafront
I manned a polling booth there in Federal election ’07, and a pale skinny bloke with Himmler glasses came up and shook my hand and acted like I was supposed to know who he was. Put me off the place.
it was a whole year later before I found out the man’s name.
Incidentally, I read a detective story called ‘Prime Cut’ last week by a local author, set in Hopetoun. He called one of his detectives Mark McGowan. Sent a shiver up my spine every time I read it.
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Dude, don’t criticise before you’ve looked over the ocean from your windowside seat at Cuntholedoodle.
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Incredibly, TWOP doesn’t even get onto the first page of google results for rockingham tapas bar. WTF?
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on the other hand, only one tapas bar comes up. it’s not that vibrant after all.
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how many octopi does it take to reach officially vibrant status?
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Talk to the crabs of Basso.
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I was at an…event last night where someone claimed a Google AU search of worst had this site as the second result.
It is more or less true…but Rebecca Black is catching up…
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Only beaten by.
worst/wərst/
Verb: Get the better of; defeat.
Adjective: Of the poorest quality or the lowest standard.
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I wonder if you know that the original Mr Fist who set up the business in the 1800’s was the son of a convict John Fist from Canterbury England. He was eventually freed and had two sons, one of whom was very respectable and religious, while the other was a snake oil merchant. It was the latter who found his way to W.A. and set up shop selling lenses and reading irises (today’s iridiology)- from that grew the optometrist’s business. I can tell you a lot more about him – I am descended from his father, the convict’s sister.
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Thank you. More power to teh Fist.
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It’s a cute sign! Graham Fist’s the best optician I’ve ever known, and a formidable man, too. I don’t know if he still flies his plane across the outback to operate in remote communities, as he’s not so young any more – but it’s going to be a huge loss when after around 120 years his family practice eventually shuts for good. Definitely deserves heritage protection, if only we cared, really, for heritage.
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