Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you. …
Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One
Speaking of dumbarse new Perth suburb names, WAtching revisted an established dumbarse name suburb, which has a new slogan to get the punters in. I went past Dog Swamp myself yesterday and it was dry as a nun’s camel’s. Frankly it made my tail droop.
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The Worst of Perth 
This grainy and unfocused shot style is surely a breach of Cookster & DFOC’s IP.
Watch out for a writ from the AFACT.
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As TLA knows, I take about fifty photos, but they have craftily designed this with an anti focus coating.
This is the clearest shot I could get (with self-portrait).
Here’s my take on how this happened…
I can just see the advertising exec’s brainstorming.
“C’mon Guys… what’ve you got?”
“It’ll make your breath smell?”
“No”
“It’ll make your nose wet?”
“No.”
“It’ll make you able to lick your own balls?”
“No”
“It’ll make your…
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The full name for the wetland is ‘Native Dog Swamp’, the nyungah word is ‘Yokine’
Yokine-ites such as our Tezz Tyzack shop at the Coles at Flinders Square, next door to the droopaplex.
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Wait just one second. I thought it was dog swamp because the island in the swamp was shaped like a bone? That’s what I’ve always believed.
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ba bow (wow)
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Settled: The Federal Magistrates’ Court looked at this issue in 2008:
[10] “Dog Swamp” is the correct name. The name derives from the nearby swamp which used to be known as “Native Dog Swamp”. That name was referrable to nearby “Yokine Hill”, “yokine” being an Aboriginal word for native dog.
See: Olsen v Sterling Crown Pty Ltd [2008] FMCA 1392 (31 October 2008)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FMCA/2008/1392.html?query=sterling%20crown
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don’t diss Dog Swamp
it is the single greatest name of any suburb in Perth
get your T-shirts here, folks:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/skink1984/t-shirts/4067816-3-dog-swamp-wa-6060
‘it will make you want to sniff your bitch’s bum’
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Or lick your balls?
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it will make you crap on your neighbour’s lawn
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sniff a fadge
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it will make you stick your head out of a car window and drool
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chase the postie, then pee on a power pole.
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Don’t make me post this again, or especially this.
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That woman seemed a bit too accommodating for my liking.
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You’ll hump your own leg in excitement.
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Long live the King.
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Drag your arse down here.
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As good as digging up cat shit and eating it.
Just my dog? Carry on.
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It will make you on heat.
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I wonder what they taste like, shaz ?
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I thought for a minute you meant my balls
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It always comes back to your balls on here eventually doesn’t it? Like some God damned TWOP Godwins’s law.
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yes, they are so large they create their own gravitational field, and everything eventually gets pulled toward them
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I was watching my dog lick his balls the other day and I said “I wish I could do that”.
My wife said “Don’t dive straight in, give him a kiss first”.
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that’s the joke a sexy girl told me at a dinner party 12 years ago- fell in love/got married…. that joke changed my life.
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I love the uncontracted ‘it will’, very formal. Ve haff veys of making your tail vagg. Apostrophic opportunity wasted there.
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No contractions in indirect speech, Pfortsy.
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if y’say so.
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’twill?
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it’ll.
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if i’ve said it once, i’ve said it a thousand times, those marketing guys have really gotta stay off the coke ’til the weekends. absolute worst TLA.
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And neurosurgeons should stay off completely once the first hooker dies.
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They’ll definitely be wagging their tails in heaven though.
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As a former resident of the Dog Swamp locale I need to point out you missed the dual cultural highlights of Dog swamp Shopping Centre.
The first is “Swampy’s”, the largest purveyor of xxxxx xxxx xxxx in the district and all with its plastic chairs and fluro-green walls it has all the colour and decor or a Brazilian slum.
The second is over the carpark at “Flinders Square” which as the unique distinction of a Woolworths and an adult Shop nestled together under the same roof.
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CB – coles is next door to Malcolm Day’s retailo offload-adultshop
Woolworths nee Action is in the droopoplex
I’m heading to Swampy’s to find out what was expurgated by TLA. expect photos
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I don’t think you want any.
“Swampy’s” Slogan?
It will make you expurgate.
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Thanks O. A case of recall dyslexia. You are very much correct.
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I like the way ‘Flinders Square’ and ‘Dog Swamp’ shopping centres are supposedly distinct entities (at least the signage indicates such) but really wtf is the difference, where are the snipers, etc etc. I hate that place.
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I’m surprised there’s no picture of the heinous dog swamp shopping centre mascot who has a distinctly pedobear-ish look to him.
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Here is a war story from Vic Demised re performing at Flinders Square and trying to placate a bunch of kiddies over the non appearance of Flapper the elephant who locked his head in the car.
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Dogswamp has the best Curry Laksa in Perth.
I have tried every single laksa that anybody has every told me about : Penang Restaurant, Tak Chee, Taurus Hawkers, the hawkers on spencer ave in Thornlie, the vegetarian one in Freo, one in manning, plus 8 – 10 other recommendations and randoms over the last few years. Although there have been worthy contenders, none has beaten Angs.
If anyone knows of a better Curry Laksa in Perth, AND you have tried the one at Angs in Flinders Square, Dog Swamp, let me know.
They also make a great assam laksa on Saturday’s.
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Try the Laksa at Tasty Taste, Freo Shanghai markets.
(no I haven’t tried the dog swamp variety, and never will)
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Not a true laksa fan, opinion can’t be taken seriously. Next!
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Not so. It’s just I have no reason to venture that way these days so don’t. I have tried many Laksa’s in my many years, and theirs is my fave. Same goes for their Tom Yum Soup.
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Laksa = Noodle Inn, Hay Street, West Perth.
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Agreed – Angs is wonderful. Nothing at all to look at (get in there, grab the food and hightail it outta there), but the laksa and the mee goreng are both fabulous. Always busy, and as far as I’m aware they haven’t changed their prices in ten years.
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I risk life and limb to go to Dog Swamp just for a laksa!There is nothing, nothing at all in Dog Swamp. Its a shit hole. But, its worth it.
So, tasty taste laksa, a few questionsm if you have time:
Are there any fish-balls, or similar unidentifiable sea food?
What country do the people who run the place hail from?
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No fake stuff in any of their food. So no fish balls. Mr Shazza and I are ashamed to admit we are not sure about their country of origin. Malaysian or Indonesian we suspect. I shall ask.
Mr Shazza, who is more Laksa savvy than I, says you have to ask for the Seafood Curry Laksa with fish. He also said it’s not the best he’s ever had. But is the best value in Perth. The best he had was in Melbourne (bloody typical)
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Thanks Shazza – I will give it a go for sure. Wasn’t “Laksa King” in Melbourne by any chance?
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Not Laksa King. He thinks it might have been at the Stoke House St Kilda.
Good luck with your laksa hunt. I hope I haven’t given you a bum steer.
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The Dog Swamp CD shop is shit.
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If it’s the Purple ear, then it has a reputation as being one of the best suppliers of Country Music North of the Mason Dixon Line :-)
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Purple Ear is (or was) at the Dianella Shopping Centre. No idea what the music shop at Doggers is called, but it’s rubbish.
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The Loved One is another masterpiece of the literaturial arts for those unread.
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As is the Loved One’s song of the same name – and notge the cameo by Yorkie :-)
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There used to be a guy who took his shirt etc off to wash at the laundrette at Dog Swamp and one night a lady screamed foul abuse at me for closing the laundrette door-a sign said please close door-she kept it up for 15 minutes non-stop-she sported an elaborate edwardian style bun and combat fatigues-an archetypal Perthite. (I am not making this up.)
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I am a laksa-holic….. Angs is great, the only other places I have had any joy is the noodle place at harbour town perth, and joondalup food hall….. i will travel for laksa….
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I made a superb Singapore laksa from the Rick Stein book the other day. Perfect.
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This is about names right, My mum knew someone had three kids there names where Misty,Dusty and Sandy and there last name was Forest.
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Scary i knew someone who works in Dogswamp.
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