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 […]
Still on matters vertigo (see entry below), the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach, outback Queensland, have recently upgraded their 747 tour.
Up till now only flight crew and hijackers have been granted such unqualified access to a jumbo jet - the only such tour in the world - but now your ticket has even longer reach: […]
Ever see that dam scene in The Fugitive? Harrison Ford, as the runaway prisoner, hurtles through a stormwater drain only to encounter a vertical concrete drop. To jump = death. To turn back = Tommy Lee Jones as US State Marshal with gun and handcuffs.
Our Harry opts for death, and survives.
You can too - with […]
For those old enough to recall, Australia flunked the Montreal Olympics in 1976. The only dive we accomplished as a sporting nation was the nosedive.
Knowing the opiate importance of sport, the Fraser government devoted 65 hectares in Bruce, just out of Canberra, to the Australian Institute of Sport five years on.
Either you have […]
The phantom slasher sounds like a labrador, but the phrase takes on a more sinister shade on the Blue Mountain Mystery Tour, the only ghost-amble offered in the region.
Can’t speak from first-hand experience, but flyers for the freak-fest offer exclusive trips to see convict stockades, abandoned graves, the hanging tree as well as the mandatory […]
BOULIA, Q – As the name implies, night parrots are hard to find. Only 22 had been collected since white man set foot on this island. Explorer John McDouall Stuart shot one bugger in 1845. A rare live specimen went to London in 1867 – and died. In 1970 Dal Stivens won the Miles Franklin […]
Clump, in the Macquarie Dictionary, has several meanings. Namely to gather, to trudge, to punch, plus a cluster of agglutinated bacteria.
Though for Robert Fry, a young Gloucestershire shepherd, clump will eternally refer to the group of trees where he murdered his wife.
The Pom sailed to Adelaide in 1838, and made a decent quid selling milk. […]
The fastest lorry in the world. The oldest beetle in Australia. The first Holden prototype. The most researched car in America.
Hearing these claims should be enough to lever any non-revhead into the Fremantle Motor Museum, a quirky collection amassed by one-time racing driver Peter Briggs.
Elvis Presley. James Bond. Crocodile Dundee. Each icon is invoked in […]
Hard to imagine a concrete multi-storey car-park could win the hearts of the National Trust, but such perversity is the case in downtown Melbourne.
Reasons given to preserve this drab pile dwell on vintage and camouflage. Arguably the first in Oz, the parking palace on the corner of Russell and Little Collins cropped up in […]
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 […]