Bob, Good to see that you haven't lost your grasp on Aussie badinage. BTW there was a minor typo in your message. I'm certain you must have intended, "who totally knows all stuff" when you wrote, "who knows totally stuff all". It's a crime how mail readers make erroneous auto-corrections behind our backs ;-)
FWIW I've been a regular visitor to Melbourne for almost 40 years, since my teens. I have a pretty fair idea what it's like. Melbourne braggadocio can be wearing, though, in a way that only the residents of Australia's other cities can appreciate. Just recently I had to listen to a one eyed Melbournian assert that Australia's best beaches are.... guess where? Queensland's Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast? Perth's glorious surfing beaches? The north coast of New South Wales around Byron Bay? No, Australia's best beaches are... (drum roll)in Melbourne of course. Aaack. Here's Melbourne's most famous beach: http://tinyurl.com/5dk3x7 http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St+Kilda+Victoria+Austra lia&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.868417,144.969578&spn=0.030829,0.057335&t=h&z=14&iwloc=ad dr Here are my neighbourhood beaches in Sydney, not even the most famous: http://tinyurl.com/62urno http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=freshwater+beach+2096&sl l=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=68.730338,117.421875&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=-33.78143,1 51.290836&spn=0.032459,0.057335&z=14 Incredible. Yesterday a Sydney restaurant, Tetsuya's, made number 9 in a world's best restaurants list. A few months ago a different list put Tetsuya's at number 4 IIRC. Nothing from Melbourne was anywhere close. If only I got 5 cents every time I heard that Australia's best restaurants are in Melbourne, I'd be a rich man. Melbourne's not bad, it's nice. My home city, Sydney, is by comparison a blousy old tart with petticoats rumpled and disarrayed. Some of my most pleasing city scenes have been shot in Melbourne, however it's difficult to get a pleasing angle on Sydney that isn't already clichéd. But IMO, as someone in this corner of the world, Melbourne's creative scene is insufferably pretentious and arrogantly self-superior. And not as good as it claims. Sputnikagency isn't remarkably bad, it's typical. Regards, Anthony Farr. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bob W > Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 6:25 AM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Camera Bag for Travel Kit > > [snipped: totally biased and 1100% totally and utterly untrue and > totally unjust rant against the pearl of Australian cities and its > gentle folk obviously by some total drongo who knows totally stuff all > and nothing about culchah or totally fine places and people] > > > An > > Australian joke is that > > > the best thing to come out of Melbourne is the road. > > 2nd best, actually. > > Bob (born there) > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
