RubyRuby saw a once massive Cocos that had met its match in the form of a bog standard letterbox. The final indignity is a number 4 hammered into its mighty, (poxy) bark. Well done residents of number 4, Alexander Heights. Now how about doing the rest? 
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The Worst of Perth 
LOL thats wired. I wonder if its on google maps, isnt that the rich part of Mirrabooka.
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Up very early for a 12 year old Legend.
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No, that’s Dianella you’re thinking of there TL101.
Alexander Heights is across the road from Ballajura, between that area and Marangaroo and Koondoola. Compared to those two suburbs, it certainly appears “rich”, but it’s really just a pretty average and dreary suburb.
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It’s there as a warning to the other cocos.
‘No funny business you lot or you’ll end up like number 4 down there.’
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I am not a number. I am a cocos?
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That would appear to be a particularly healthy, rampant specimen of Royena lucida slowly engulfing teh footpath. Another year of poor winter rains leading to full water restrictions and Perf will be a desert. People will look back fondly on photos of green plants, even Syagrus romanzoffiana pictured supra. Lovin’ these italics.
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I suspect that the cocos actually met its match in the form of a chainsaw. Or possibly a letterbox with a chainsaw.
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Very nice, RWL.
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Meh, link fail. I’ll have a go with this one then.
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There are a couple of plants that can cope with Perth’s weather and climate, without resorting to artificial irrigation. I have a lovely [i]Agonis flexuosa[/i] that provides a large amount of shade over my back yard.
Cocos be damned, should be banned.
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Only a couple? Like Geraldton Wax?
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Less than a couple, if you get them from the Kings Park plant sale. Hell, I like supporting Kings Park, but do they all have some kind of self-destruct mechanism built in?
Then again, I’m even having trouble getting couch to take over a bare patch at the moment…
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look at the fat cunt
he’ll cover ya patch
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Parrot Bush seems to do pretty well, and if anyone can tell me how to kill a nasturtium, I’d be eternally grateful
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Why kill ’em?
Eat ’em as salads.
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understatement
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A good cocos is a dead cocos.
“Let that be a warning to the rest of you cocos palms.”
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A couple of sink plungers and an old paint roller could render the 4 the penultimate indignity.
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For the benefit of future historians using cached versions of the site at the Battye Library, the lower photo also provides a wonderful example of the “roller shutter”, typically in beige, popular among certain suburban locations and demographics who, after sustained marketing campaigns using ex West Coast Eagles footballers and animated crows, believed that windows let in excessive heat, light and burglars.
Despite the localised popularity of the roller shutter, windows continued to be a common architectural feature of WA housing throughout this period.
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Again https://theworstofperth.com/2007/11/23/welcome-home/
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Dead from the down
Tree’s rightful belittlement
Still I remain stumped
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*Dead from the neck down*
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Heat and dust and mail
The postie, palms upturned, cries:
“Stamp out this worstness.”
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There once was a cocos from Perth,
Who tired of being called worst,
Thought it’d try a new lark,
And stripped off it’s bark,
To become a box in it’s rebirth.
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RWLC, I live in Mount Lawley and inherited a beige roller shutter. I was going to get it removed but I realised that it effectively shuts out the drunken braying of pissed and pizzaed up students walking home from the Scotsman on Sunday evenings.
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My father in law has the same sort of set up in Mount Hawthorn, a block or so down from the Paddo. I will admit, as ugly as the roller door is, he hasn’t had anyone try to break in or had drunken idiots try to jump the fence since it went in just over 10 years ago.
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and roller doors are so easy to break into
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On an uncharacteristically serious note, I was listening to Steve Gordon during the recent bushfires, who took a call from a woman who went to evacuate, but because the power was off, couldn’t get her car out because the electric garage door wouldn’t open. Don’t they have a manual override function ?
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Yes.
But it’s very likely that she’d never taken the trouble to find out how to operate it. Mens business after all.
On the other hand she might not have had the strength to do it.
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They do. We made sure to learn how our old one worked when we bought the house, and the new one when it was put in, as well as how to override the big f**k off electric gate at the front of our property just in case the power ever went out – lucky we did because it’s happened three times now and we’d be trapped inside otherwise! It annoys me when people don’t learn to do these things and then complain when things like the above mentioned incident happen.
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Appalled by his lack of taste?
When are the striped cloth roller awnings going to make a comeback? Sure they weren’t secure and they didn’t keep the sun out but…well I forget what my point was but wasn’t it Benjamin Franklin who said “Those who would trade in their windows for their protection deserve neither.”
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They can be secure.
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google “paul smith stripe”
stripes never went away
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i know i wake up early shazza.
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OT, it’s heartwarming to see the Queensland spirit has spread to Christchurch.
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they aren’t like Aussies
when natural disasters strike Kiwis don’t all rally round and…oh
I want to see if those Kiwis have any real spirit. I want to see how long it takes them before they ask for a government handout. Maybe a levy. And a charity record. Will the price of apples go up?
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Too soon man.
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Ms worsts uncle was missing presumed crushed for most of the day. Fortunately his colleagues, not him are under tonnes of concrete tonight.
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Way to make me feel like a cunt.
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Well, wasn’t MY uncle.
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Well then. HOORAY!
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Her brother said there were bodies lying in the street.
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Typical.
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I listened to the news on 720 this morn as 585 had gone to parliament. Coming out of it, Eoin Cameron was talking about the quake and said that “New Zealanders are basically Australians too.” Way to make a natural disaster worse for them Cameron.
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Eeyore must’ve been on his first bottle early this mornin.
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second at least
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Couldn’t they put a table top on it for when the neighbours drop over with a a coupla cold Bundy n cokes?
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Wasn’t Bag O’ Turnips (or similar) boasting about 30 Cocoses lopped? I call bullshit. If there’s no pic, the cocoses were never chopped.
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Is there an epidemic of mail box theft going on in Cocos Crescent I wonder?
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Anything that aint nailed down is gone in the metro area my friend cause Tony won’t pay his drug debts.
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Yeah c’mon Tony, do it for the team. How can you expect to ensure receipt of a big wad of acme-brand 50s (the ones without the water marks) if mail boxes keep going missing?
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That…is…awesome :)
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You trawling the archives? It may take you a week or so.
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