A significant rugby league match to celebrate our centenary

We’re after suggestions here people.

Thump: Do they go right after you or do they just hold it out and say something?

Fair call, but I’ll add that if I were given an anti Stanhope flier in civic I’d throw it straight in the bin. Just as I’d throw pro liberal, pro ALP, pro CAP, pro/ anti anyone campaign material straight in the bin.

In fact my major pet hate at election time is being accosted by political volunteers of any persuasion determined to shove their material down your throat.

Ditto on the materials. Mercifully i haven’t been doorknocked yet.

p1 said :

…Stanhope will soon be getting blamed for the Cuban Missile Crisis, malaria etc etc…

It is the “etc” that worries me. What else it he responsible for? Faking the moon landings? Hiding the alien base under Lawson?

Stanhope IS an alien, sent to slowly destroy Canberra over three terms through such nefarious tactics as failing to replace street lights, building mind-altering scultptures and planting ‘arboretums’, which is an anagram of ‘A teror bums’. Coincidence? I doubt it.

…Stanhope will soon be getting blamed for the Cuban Missile Crisis, malaria etc etc…

It is the “etc” that worries me. What else it he responsible for? Faking the moon landings? Hiding the alien base under Lawson?

I really couldn’t give a stuff about the ACT election

Then why does it bother you so much?

Good question. I guess it doesn’t really. It just seems like we’ve reached a point where Stanhope will soon be getting blamed for the Cuban Missile Crisis, malaria etc etc. I got handed an anti-stanhope Lib flyer in garema yesterday, all that was missing was ‘666’ stamped on his head.

MrMagoo said :

I think the Centennary is a very important thing and if anyone is trying to raise awareness and in that attract major events to the city for the 100th Birthday then all is the good I say. We seem in this place to never want to show any form of pride in the place where we live. If Jon Stanhope or anyone on the Centennary taskforce is suggesting ideas thengreat, let’s hear them and then see if they can be reality.

Personally we have got buckley’s of a Test Match, just won’t happening no matter how hard ACt Cricket tries to tell us they are an important player in the market.

Anyway, lets get behind the 100 Birthday celebrations its OK to be proud of the place where we live you know.

I’m proud of the place that I live every day (every day that I don’t have to deal with the public service that is). I don’t need a woman’s golf tournament to brighten up my local fervor.

Besides, I think johnboy wasn’t so much saying ‘let’s not have events’, but rather ‘let’s not have events that completely suck’.

Thumper, I really couldn’t give a stuff about the ACT election, and you’re obviously a smart, well informed person, but your endless jabs at Stanhope et al are getting a bit tired, and frankly, predictable.

…and the creation of a new flower – the Centenary Rose and a native to mark the capital’s 100th year.

I don’t know if I am missing something, but is it possible to create a new native?

I think the Centennary is a very important thing and if anyone is trying to raise awareness and in that attract major events to the city for the 100th Birthday then all is the good I say. We seem in this place to never want to show any form of pride in the place where we live. If Jon Stanhope or anyone on the Centennary taskforce is suggesting ideas thengreat, let’s hear them and then see if they can be reality.

Personally we have got buckley’s of a Test Match, just won’t happening no matter how hard ACt Cricket tries to tell us they are an important player in the market.

Anyway, lets get behind the 100 Birthday celebrations its OK to be proud of the place where we live you know.