All I can remember about geology is the sniggering when the teacher started talking about mounds and depressions...

I cheated - I swapped to Geomorphology which doesn't have to be so hard to hit.

But 'Igneos Petrology' sounds like a mid european name. perhaps someone needing a nom de plume (see other thread) could use it.

It would also be a good name for a street or rather a boulevard.Directions: Go down Igneos Petrology Boulevard, turn left at the mesa, and proceed along Sedimentary Lane until you come to the Moraine.

Just as an aside: In Mallala there is a ''Lois' Lane'. Leads off the Two wells Road.

Manager-ese, I can't take the credit though that is down to Bonzai Kitten. The deliberate obfuscation of the meaning, or spin, of news with negative connotations - down-sizing, outsourcing, right-sizing. Or corporate mangling or the English language.

We have a Quidditch Lane in our village, the story given out being that it's an ancient word for a ditch, although the OED is silent on the subject. Following a local competition, we also now have Lakes Sirius and Whomping Willow.

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Oh dear.

We have a Lois Lane in Dandenong too. I imagine there is a Peter Park(er) around somewhere too.

Where I grew up there was a Robin Hood Hotel with a Maid Marion Lounge. In Wagga Wagga, we have a Spooner Avenue but, alas, Friar Tuck doesn't live there.

Yesterday I spotted the word "flimsicle" in an Amazon review, as in 'the author managed to make the character of Elizabeth I appear flimsicle'. I've discussed this with my husband and we thought it might be a combination of flimsy and whimsical, or perhaps flimsy and popsicle (like an ice lolly which falls apart midway through).

Flimsicle, interesting feel to say!

Gong off topic, my favourite real person's name is Petrus Spronk. I just LOVE it!


Did the name change to Lake Sirius make tourists come or something?



There is a place in Frankston that has my name in entirety as it's title! I'll have to visit it one day.

Ah, glorious Frankston. halfway between Springvale and Westernport Bay, isn't it?

For people not aware of Oz vernacular:

In aboriginal languages when a word is repeated it means 'many of'

So 'Wagga Wagga" (pronounced 'wogga wogga") is aboriginal for 'many Italians'.

Other Oz persons: refute me if you dare!


[Edited later, not from false sense of PC but in case any potential new fforumites should read this thread first and not understand the concept of free speech and free association of consciousness. 'Wagga Wagga' means 'place of many crows'.

I actually like the place, and (nostalgia/neuralgia again) is the only place in OZ where I have hit a pink and grey galah. Coincidentally I was on my way to Canberra at the time. I just hated that big hill going south as the idiots on the road couldn't appreciate just how steep it is and how slow the semitrailers were going up it. I must have been delayed a dozen times while the crash crews pulled cars out from under the trailers as they rear ended the semi's through lack of judgement.

Pre WW2 there used to be 24 pubs in the main street. It was a badge of honour among the young bloods to see if they could have a pint (genuine sized - 660ml - not these ersatz "pints" sold these days) in each bar of all 24 in a day without technicolour yawning to get rid of it. My father told me the way to do it was to start early and play sport between drinks to burn off the alcohol and to stay sober. My mother told me he was tired and sore the next day.



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Reference earlier comments on shapes and colours: I was reading an article about migraine headaches recently and there was much mention of sufferers 'seeing' coloured shapes when their attacks were in progress. (I don't suffer migraines, for I don't think that I reach the required level of brain complexity and functioning to be susceptible)

The shapes were jagged and bright colours when the attacks were causing sharp pains and were more 'fuzzy' when the pain was at a lower level.

The article went on to mention that migraines are usually associated with excess electric potentials/discharges in the brain.

This would seem to be similar to those persons who 'see' colours with shapes, or hear music with smells.

Science points out that certain stimuli activate select parts of the brain, so it is not inconceivable that a certain proportion of the populace will be more than ordinarily perceptive/susceptible to these sorts of multisensory activities.

Interesting. I think I just narrowly missed getting a migraine after finishing my course! Woo hoo I think I also narrowly missed the twenty thou word mark...

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> Did the name change to Lake Sirius make tourists
> come or something?

No, it's a brand-new "lake" (read: retention pond-cum-water hazard for future golf course). A big hole was dug, it filled with water, then there was a competition to name it. We're a new community and there wasn't much to do here before we got a pub...

Anybody that wants my migraines can have them-
never had anything other than nausea & light sensitivity-
if I'd heard the light, I would definitely be hurling...

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Robert, Where did you grow up? Was it Gippsland, by any chance?

Would be fun to have meeting like you suggested Kitten! (P.s. did you get my email? should be able to see the show too this year).

Amazing how life revolves around establishments with lots of watery rotten vegetable liquid! The good thing is that there is no chimney smoking indoors now.

A point out of order:

In the old Frost Report the word 'prossibly' crops up as an unintended coalescence of 'probably' and 'possibly'.


There was also a mention of a letter from an American lady whose daughter had spent some time in England. She wrote 'that the love of your country is embedded in her yet.'. Frost said that they had not identified where the 'yet' was on a human body.

A point out of order:

In the old Frost Report the word 'prossibly' crops up as an unintended coalescence of 'probably' and 'possibly'.


There was also a mention of a letter from an American lady whose daughter had spent some time in England. She wrote 'that the love of your country is embedded in her yet.'. Frost said that they had not identified where the 'yet' was on a human body.

<time for the little white pills again>

Thought it was supposed to be the green pills this week...

Or were those the ones you take with food- ah, dinner, that's what I'm supposed to be doing now...

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We have a "Bee Fold Lane" (you probabbly need very small fingers to fold a bee),
a "Slag Lane", "Plank Lane" and "Defiance Street" and "Mealhouse Lane" around here as well as more mundane names.