Queens Hotel Bonus Post

Posted on April 9, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Not that youse actually deserve this post, since the Bankwest one was simply posted early in error, but if there’s to be a bonus post, how about this, the Queens Hotel on that massive seam of worst Beaufort Street? Whenever I go in there, which is reasonably often, I always wonder why the interior is so crappy. Did this ever look good? The preserved bits of plaster and exposed internal brick,  who could ever have thought it was going to work? As the years have passed it looks  about as interesting as socks and sandals. I have some memory that this poorly judged interior won an award or two. Time to start again. The space is nice, but the interior is embarassing. And that awful corrugated iron bar.

Bonus enough for you pigs? It’s not as if two posts a day gets in more readers. Stats are just the same. No, fine. have an extra post. Here have it. See if I care.

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queens21

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The Bank that lived there

Posted on April 8, 2009 by AHC McDonald

To all the Bankwest staff. Here’s a message from the past, from before it became The Bankwest of Scotland. Start saving. As fast as you can.  Didn’t Colin (asleep at the wheel) Barnett assure you your jobs were safe. “There will be NO, I repeat FEW sackings”.

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bankwest

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Parker

Posted on April 8, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Shut up, just shut up you cows. Yeah shut up. Bitches…Cows.

Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967)
US author, humorist, poet, & wit

Rachael snapped this excellent shot in Queen Street. For this amount you’d want two bays. However I believe this price does include corkage. I’m not sure the coin option is going to cut it somehow. Thanks Ms R. Great Worst.

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Golden Pash

Posted on April 7, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Ah-oh, smokestack lightnin,
Shinin, just like a Golden Pash,
Why don’t ya hear me cryin?
A-whoo-hooo, oooo,
Whooo.

Whoa-oh, who been here baby since,
I-I been gone, a little, bity boy?
Girl, be on.
A-whoo-hooo, whoo-hooo,
Whooo. Howlin’ Wolf

Although separated by time and space, I found these objects to be connected. Somehow. I suppose if you were going to have a golden pash, where better than the back of this golden…thing. With of course a Golden Gaytime.

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Two days, two trucks, two tools

Posted on April 6, 2009 by AHC McDonald

First time submitter Natalie finds that worsts but unfortunately not lightning, do strike at the same place. That is the intersection of William Street and Albany Highway Cannington. Thanks Natalie. Everyone should know that there’s never such a thing as a free moustache ride.

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The Best of Banned by The West

Posted on April 5, 2009 by AHC McDonald

The twitter feed from the fake West Australian that the paper had removed was so popular that it was transferred to a different account. You can see the latest 5 updates in the sidebar, but in case you miss any of the passing gold, I will show the best of banned by The West every Sunday. You can subscribe to the twitter updates with a feed reader too if you wish. The address for the feed is.

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15953157.rss

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Older sperm has “less sense of humour” – Study. Sperm from men over 40 has an 80% chance of producing a child with no irony or comic timing…

EU to gay women “It’s Leswegian”. To placate angry residents of Lesbos in Greece, EU standards committes has decided “Leswegian” not lesbian…

Woman sprayed with pheremones marries Dutchman. In the first case of “personality spiking” prosecuted, a woman spoke of horror of Dutch husb…

Tonkin “not Asian name” Angry drivers are shunning Tonkin Hwy after being told it was named after Gulf of Ton-Kin. In fact John Tonkin was P…

Police to “Hum classics” to deter youths. Police to trial humming classical music rather than using tasers to calm violent offenders, Verdi…

Smart Car “transport dunce.” – Choice. One vehicle tested couldn’t tell the difference between “I sped” and “I have sped” in blind trials…

…More men “Sit to pee” – Academic. Sedentary lifestyle, obesity, laziness just some of the reasons fewer men stand to urinate. Curtin U…

Vietnam vet “still fears punji sticks”. 30 years after his feet were pierced by bamboo, John Allen still makes his son “take point” when out…

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Weekend Worstoff 50

Posted on April 4, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Someone else sent a shot of this SA obscenity driving, but Matt had already sent me some documentation of it stationary. It’s a little surprising that it does move. Thanks Matt.

week50car1week50car2week50car3(Run) DMc sent this from very close to The Eagles Lair TWOP headquarters. I’m not sure if it’s right to discriminate like this. Do they really not want Eagle Boys discount flyers?

week50domMel ventured into TWOP official tipple territory and got this shot of a er howling cow, before the wolf pack cut her down. Thanks Mel.

week50cowJoe sent in a nice typo from UWA website. It’s a pity they couldn’t have worked cunt into that typo but looks like they tried. So close.

week50typoAnd an overseas worst from Sarah, who took exception to this company name in LA. (Los Angeles not Lazy Aussie.) Fallas discount? Or is it a typo too? You should never buy a discount fallas. False economy.

week50fallasWell, I think you got your money’s worth this weekend. Reader numbers are well up, so something must be going right. Worst well my pretties. Worst well.

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Let’s go see some stamping horses Dad!

Posted on April 3, 2009 by AHC McDonald

El Caballo Blanco (Which means “The” Caballo Blanco) may stir up the remeniscing mixed with slagging off loved by TWOP readers, a-la Pizza Showtime. Apparently in1974 there was nothing to do but wait for Gough to implode or drive for miles into the country to see some premium horse stamping at El Caballo. Cookster who bafflingly keeps banging on about how we don’t have enough sunlight in cold dark Perth summers was apparently touched enough by the sun to hit ‘Blanco only a few weeks ago. For some reason he didn’t take a shot of a room, but he did get a shot of a picture of someone riding a crosseyed horse. Some dry dolphins, one of which needs to wipe its chin, and some wet mermaids.

I’m thinking of issuing a TWOP worst gathering manual. It would include not telling me about a great picture you didn’t take.  & If you come across public art, FIRST get the closeups of boozies, willies and back doors. THEN if you have time get the establishing shot. One correspondent went all the way to China and didn’t take a shot up the skirt of a bronzed woman statue. People. Think. Cookster, where are the ecu’s of the boozies and the gobbling dolphins? How were the arses of the mermaids handled? Any crack or just scales? Get closer.

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My eyes! My beautiful eyes!

Posted on April 2, 2009 by AHC McDonald

The only way I could get a shot of this nude painting in a Beaufort Street shop was to stand behind it to block the reflections on the face. To my horror when I opened the file I found that that she now had my ears. And the shape of my head. And sort of blended facial features.  She actually has long hair washed out by the reflection. You may not be able to get this image out of your head. I don’t want to talk about it.

Sort of familar

Sort of familar

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Bring me the head (and skin) of Matthew Newton

Posted on April 1, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Lots of great submissions this week. Enough to squander two good ones on one post. Meccano encountered a trailer full of animal skins in Orrong Rd. Where else? (In fact the car was full of skins too.) We have bears? And one from The Cookster who saw a head. In a car.  Looks like the guy in Underbelly who plays Terry Clark. With the same range of emotions. (Comparison shot included).

We have bears?

We have bears?

Bring me the head...

Bring me the head...

terry

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