Fun Stuff > CHATTER
Hey you, where do you live?
Eris:
She lives in Toowoomba! I can't remember where she used to live, though. My favourite name of an Australian town is Galaganbone.
Snuffletrout:
Hammerfest :)
With Aurora Borealis
We also have a great Liquid Natural Gas resource right outside the city. Sometimes they burn off excess materials, making a huge flame which lights up the whole city for a few weeks. Its really nice when you walk home drunk in the middle of the night, as we have the dark months up there, where we don't have any sun at all for a few months. (and likewise, we have the midnight sun in summer.)
Inlander:
--- Quote from: ummmkay on 04 Nov 2010, 04:05 ---are... are those real names of places?! australia is blowing my mind right now!
--- End quote ---
"Tuggers" is a typically Australian shortening of the name Tuggeranong. As for the others, two of my favourite things about Canberra are that (A) the inhabitants still insist on calling the nominal city centre "Civic" even though local governments keep trying to get people to call it the City; and (B) yes, one of Canberra's town centres is called, for absolutely no apparent reason, Woden. (It's nowhere near as awesome as a place named after a Norse god ought to be.)
Barmymoo:
Ah yes, Tuggeranong, that common name for towns.
Jimmy the Squid:
There's also Indooroopilly, Wooloomaloo, Parramatta, Bulli, Woolongong, Turramurra, Tamarama, Coogee, Dubbo and Wodonga.
There's less interesting place names like Ashfield, Summer Hill and Strathfield.
There's places named after British locations (obivously), like Penrith or Kensington.
There's also middle of nowhere towns with American names like Las Vegas, Houston and oddly, Toronto (a town with one street and a run down petrol station.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version