Once more we let a place’s initials tell their own story. Feel free to add you own gnarly (or nice) examples thru the Comment post, or use ‘hacronym’ as your keyword to dig up other ignoble attempts around the blog. The lines are open.
YULARA – Your Uluru Lodgings Are Round Airstrip
BAXTER – Base Allowing Xenophobes [...]
I’m locked into lockstep with seven burly locksmiths – left, right, left, right – but fast. It’s conga on speed. The quickest queue in the west. Red sand is flying. Muscles ache, as hordes of cowboys and all-leather bikies cheer us on.
Around our midriffs is a boat – a hollow canoe. Eight torsos poke above [...]
A wiseacre list doing the blog rounds has a ripe old crack at Sydney Town. For those in the know, feel free to add to the barrage.
You Know You’re From Sydney When…
You make over $100,000 AU and still can’t afford a house.
You never bother looking at the train timetable because you know the drivers have [...]
White Cliffs, a town beyond Bourke, in western NSW, has white cliffs. Not ironically, Iron Knob in SA has an iron-bearing knob in cooee. Yet neither makes our ‘aptonym’ file, a search for Australian towns and landmarks with names that spark a laugh – or groan – in the pun department. Such as:
+ Bookham (NSW), [...]