It's Canberra Day!
"The best view of Canberra is from the back of a departing train."
- Percy Deane, Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, 1928
"It is an expression of bureaucratic Existentialism. It exists without existing."
- Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was not impressed with the Canberra of 1958.
"It's just like a little country town, isn't it? Charming, of course, but just a little country town."
- The Duchess of Kent after visiting Canberra in 1970.
"Canberra: There's nothing to it!"
"Canberra: Why wait for death?"
"Canberra: Gateway to everywhere else!"
- Comments associated with British (American expatriate) writer Bill Bryson, 2000
I kid, I kid. Canberra's great.
It's quite evil how all the goverment jobs are located therse. It forces to go to the public sector...or remain a uni bum, ah, I mean a university scholar to fuel my intellectual curiosity.
Posted by: Engels at March 21, 2005 07:18 PMI should really proof read my entries...damn university systems!
Posted by: Engels at March 21, 2005 07:19 PMI remember going on Year 10 camp to Canberra, and telling everyone that went past that I was from "the big city".
They didn't appreciate the humour then. I don't now, heh.
Posted by: Leigh at March 21, 2005 08:57 PMThey remind me of something I heard on the Late-Late Show (CBS TV (US))
"The two best things to come out of Kansas are Interstate 70 going east, and Interstate 70 going west."
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at March 21, 2005 09:04 PMCanberra ROCKS
Posted by: Slobbodany at March 23, 2005 08:05 AM