15 May 2009

Beard is the word for new border hugging industrial estate.

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When playing Sim City a smart player clusters industry on their borders so that the pollution they have to cope with is effectively halved while their neighbour cops a load.

The Canberra Times reports that a new industrial precinct being planned for the border (between Oaks Estate and Canberra Avenue) is going to be called “Beard” after “convict turned pioneering landowner Timothy Beard”. Apparently Beard was very industrious, thus warranting the name.

145 industrial blocks are planned for the new zone. ACT Planning and Land Authority (ACTPLA) boss Neil Savery says that only really big suburbs get named after dead Prime Ministers. Which has me wondering when Mr. Kambah slept in the lodge.

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If you were going to call a suburb after any type of bodily hair in the ACT, shouldn’t it be pube?

The Development Application has been lodged for this estate. It can be found at http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/pubnote/pubnoteDetail_new.asp?DA_no=200914383

Gungahlin Al said :

I wonder how Neil feels about his jest that “and of course they have to be dead” making it into the article?

And how come the Monty Python tune “the decomposing composers” come to mind?

“You can still hear Beethoven, but Beethoven cannot hear you.”

The difference in sim city is that when you palm off pollution to neighbouring cities, the pollution doesn’t effect them. It just sort of disapears.

And a little bit of brown paint on the suburb sign turns it into “Cock”.

Teeheeheeheeheehee!

I dislike using a noun for a suburb name.

Cook is an exception to that rule. Though it is usually used as a verb. 🙂

Eek! When I read “beard” I think of women that gay men once used to marry as a cover! I wouldn’t live in a suburb called Beard!

Kinda seems appropriate, naming a suburb after a convict, considering there is a new jail in the city and we have a good few crims out of bail with monotonous regularity.

What ever happened to naming Canberra suburbs after prime ministers? Instead of Beard I propose Keating as a name for the new suburb. It could be filled with clock shops.

Leeching Queanbo scum

You’ve got to remember the current arrangement with the Canberra region really suits NSW.

They get all of the commonwealth grant money for those people, and can leave the service provision to the ACT.

You’re doing it all wrong. You put the industrial areas in the corner of the map so you only get a quarter of the pollution. Muahahaha…

If we are building right up to the border of Queanbeyan anyway perhaps we should just adopt it as a new town center. Wouldn’t NSW be happy to be rid of it?

I reckon they could name the streets after famous people with such famous beards…

Dave ‘WolfMan’ Williams
Zakk Wyld
ZZ Top
Jim Morrison
Abe Lincoln
Chuck Norris
Jesus

the list goes on…

Gungahlin Al10:19 am 15 May 09

I wonder how Neil feels about his jest that “and of course they have to be dead” making it into the article?

And how come the Monty Python tune “the decomposing composers” come to mind?

I want to know what the street names may be.. Mustache Ave or Groomed Street perhaps.

They may say it’s named after a pioneering landowner, but we all know it’s really named after ZZ Top member Frank Beard*.

* The only member of ZZ Top not to have a beard.

Wonder what the folkies will think ?

I thought “handbag & beard” was for when an “obviously gay” and “butch man” formed a couple.
Then again, my gay slang is purely secondhand.

But using gay slang to name a suburb right next to Harman?

that should be “Beard is the weird”

Beard (gay slang) – A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

Hmm… They’re putting Beard just under the ‘nose’ of the ACT, which is where you usually put a moustache…

Anyway, seems more appropriate to name suburbs after convicts who made good than our Prime Ministers (who, when compared to convicts, diggers and post-war immigrants, seem to have done very little for Australia).

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