Speaking of which...
Ever stumbled into a place like the West Heidelberg Mall? Dallas, for instance? Well, you would have run across someone like Glovey; a local type, three parts pissed, fist wrapped around a can of VB at 9:30 in the morning. A CC, colourful character.
"Hey, c--t! How's ya mum and dad? Are they still brother and sister?"
Glovey should run for council. He's certainly got a better chance than Gimmecoins, Bottle Thrower and Mr Scabs the toilet junky.
Wasn't Dallas where they burnt the cop shop down, and then the police decided not to rebuild it.
Posted by: Uncle J Rod | 20 February 2008 at 16:15
There's something prodding my memory about the Dallas cop shop, but I can't pin it down. I had a look on google, searching for Dallas police station fire. No good. I kept coming up with book depository, Parkland hospital, Dealey Plaza, grassy knoll. No idea what that's all about.
Posted by: Tony T | 20 February 2008 at 19:11
Dallas is also where in-the-news Islamocrazy Abdul Nacer Benbrika hails from too.
Posted by: Gareth | 20 February 2008 at 20:26
I had to look Dallas up on the map. Micro-suburbs are always so rich in places to go.
Two things jumped out at me. A lot of the streets are named after Victorian country towns: Mildura, Kaniva, Terang, Melton... but who on earth would want to live in Moe Ct?
Also, the streets off Academy Dr. (which admittedly is in Broady, but you need to go through Dallas to get out of it, so one presumes it is merely misaligned) are named after US universities: Berkeley, Winchester, Princeton, Cornell, Wharton, Michigan, Columbia and Stamford... StaMford.
Posted by: Russ | 20 February 2008 at 21:41
"Hey, c--t! How's ya mum and dad? Are they still brother and sister?"
Good to see the new civility is catching on!
Posted by: TimT | 21 February 2008 at 09:16
My favourite dodgy shopping complex is "The Stables". It's in that area somewhere and has a dodgy chess knight as it's logo.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 21 February 2008 at 10:24
Stables is Mill park and its name comes from the Roycrofts or some sort of non jockey horse riding thing.
Posted by: Uncle J Rod | 21 February 2008 at 11:32
Being an industrial chappy, I've had the pleasure of working close to both the Dallas and West Heidelberg shopping centres. Gruesome. And Northland is like mega version of both; that place is a zoo.
The principle's job at Mill Park Secondary was recently up for grabs so I suggested to a mate of mine that he should consider putting in an application. He looked at me like I was mad. Only the
dumbestbravest adventurers ever mount expeditions into the wilds of Mill Park.Posted by: Tony T | 21 February 2008 at 12:00
I never thought Mill Park was that bad, but that could be because I spent my childhood In Epping and Fawkner.
Posted by: Uncle J Rod | 21 February 2008 at 16:59
We had our staff Xmas lunch at a restaurant in Mill Park. The eggplant chips were tepid and lacked crispy edges.
Mill Park is a savage place.
Posted by: Tony T | 21 February 2008 at 18:51
The definition of misery: living in Moe Court in Dallas.
Posted by: Helen | 24 February 2008 at 21:14