We Brits do have a lot of fun at the Aussie's expense but on their National Day it should be a time to reflect on just what this proud country has contributed to the World, it's great historical figures and it's place in the World.
As i say it should be a time, but what Australia is famous for is the tradition of having its town's and cities named by 5 year old schoolboys so here is the address some Australians have to put on their envelopes.
Banana QLD, Binnaway NSW, Boing Boing NT, Bong Bong NSW, Boyland QLD, Burrumbuttock NSW, Chinaman's Knob VIC, Chinkapook VIC, Cock Wash SA, Cockburn WA, Delicate Nobby NSW, Dismal Swamp TAS, Doo Town TAS, Gooloogong NSW, Grong Grong NSW, Humpty Doo NT, Humpybong QLD, Innaloo WA, Koolyanobbing WA, Mooball NSW, Mount Buggery VIC,
Pimpinbudgie QLD, Poowong VIC, Smiggin Holes NSW, Tittybong VIC, Wagga Wagga NSW, Watanobbi NSW, Wee Waa NSW, Wonglepong QLD, Woodie Woodie and Yorkeys Knob QLD.
With the obligatory mention of sheep, sticks you cant throw away and cork hats, Happy Birthday Australia.
2 comments:
Some of those are indigenous names, are they not? But I am happy not to live in Cock Wash or Burrumbuttock, though I suppose I could be stand Pimpinbudgie. (Chinaman's Knob sounds like something you'd have found around here, left over from Gold Rush days, but renamed by about 1940.)
I assume that's where the names came from Don but i can't help wonder how some of these places got their names. What could possibly have happened in Cock Wash to name the place after it? And Mount Buggery??
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