Canberra is the best place to be!

Ooh, yes, do it, Thumper!

Add the requisite leis of Canberra Bluebell, order the Blue and Gold mankinis and a squadron or three of incontinent Gang-gangs and I think this is ein schlauer Plan, der nicht ausfallen kann!

*chortle*

Just wait till your brain starts to bleed, BerraBoy68! Pink uggies are fantastic for winter time, but what about summer? Thongs?

FFS! My ear are bleeding. Not only are those the worst lyrics ever, the guy singing reminds me of Peter Sellers. I think he must have put that diabolical effort together to try and sell it to the ACT Government. Whatever his motivation, I wish he hadn’t bothered.

BTW: any uniform must, and I mean MUST, include pink Ugh boots.

I do like purple hair! You guys are inspirational. Can we have cork hats as well? And swags? That would be cool!

: )

Scratch the wombat-fur coats – I just had a better idea – wombat fur full-body jumpsuits!!

poptop: Llamas are excellent in a skirmish and they perfectly symbolise the character of Kanberra – they are hardy, though ungainly; intelligent, but intractible; unusual, but not enthralling. Being pink is useful since it will highlight the purple wigs worn by the foot soldiers.

Re: subjugation of the barbarian hordes – this must be done carefully. Many of the neighbouring hordes are allies of Kanberra. I myself live outside the City Walls and harbour unitarianistic tendencies for tribes of the region. They also control supply of all of the chicken schnitzels in the region – and we must remember that an army marches on its stomachs.

Re: uniforms. Well, it looks like it’s definitely going to be mankinis, wigs and gum boots, except in winter, when the mankinis can be covered with full-length wombat-fur coats. This is practical, since there are many rivers and lakes in the region, and mankinis allow the army to swim, while the gum boots are excellent for mud, dust and snow. Wombats are plentiful, so the fur coats will not be a problem.

Imagine how the Kanberra Armies would look, resplendant in their tan-coloured mankinis and purple wigs! The enemy would flee in terror!

Radonezh – The Territory is probably big enough for your and my dreams to co-exist.

Particularly if we take the view that we can only ever be free through fiercely subjugating the barbarian horde just outside our borders.

And even more particularly if we include uniforms.

And crack teams of pink attack llamas.

New Yeah said :

Good question. For the youth of our fair city, I posit that the regional dress is whatever Stocks and Parliament are selling in any given season.

No, this won’t do – it has to be something really striking, like a mankini, a purple wig and knee-high gum boots.

poptop: wrong orator. 🙂

radonezh said :

What a great tourist attraction it would be if Canberra were the first region in Australia to develop its own regional style of dress? And if it were to happen, I wonder what it would look like?

Good question. For the youth of our fair city, I posit that the regional dress is whatever Stocks and Parliament are selling in any given season.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Kanberra dream.

I have a dream that one day this Territory will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “For the Queen, the Law and the People.”

I have a dream that one day in the house on the hill, the sons [and daughters] of former bureaucrats and the sons [and daughters] of former politicians will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood [and sisterhood].

I have a dream that one day even the Australian Capital Territory, a territory sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream today.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every Street and every Circuit, from every Place and every Crescent, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”“

You know, I was also doing some research on why people visit other countries (tourism-wise) and it struck me that most of the older countries have various national and local/regional costumes. So, whereas the Greek men wear their traditional little mini-skirts and pom-poms on their shoes, we Aussies, on the other hand, have nothing to match this. Afghans have their kaftans. Indians have their sarees. The Germans have their lederhosen and William Tell hats…. What a great tourist attraction it would be if Canberra were the first region in Australia to develop its own regional style of dress? And if it were to happen, I wonder what it would look like?

Imagine, the great hoardes of Canberra’s armies, massed at the borders, ready to march victoriously on the neighbouring NSW countryside, all resplendant in their traditional Canberra regional dress, chanting the words to Kanberra Uber Alles at the top of their voices.. what a terrible, but glorious, sight that would be! 🙂

And post white feathers in the mail and stuff!

*chuckle*

Yes, it rather has that sieg heil kind of thing happening that makes you want to salute and march off to war … er, I mean send somebody else off to war.

Granny said :

How did you succeed in the getting of wisdom, Radonezh?

I dunno, I guess I’m just a wiseguy.

Actually, I’ve been thinking, this song sounds better if it’s translated into German, viz:

English:
“Canberra is the greatest place of all
Come here and have a ball
If you get very wise
You can touch the skies!”

German:
“Kanberra uber alles
Hierher gekommen und haben Spaß”
Wenn Sie werden sehr kluge
Sie erreichen die Himmel!”

etc.

Don’t even talk to me about wisdom teeth! I refuse to have them out – on principle! I need all the wisdom I can get. Sometimes the little suckers sure are painful, but!

How did you succeed in the getting of wisdom, Radonezh?

Granny: perhaps you need a wisdom coach? Or maybe you have faulty wisdom teeth and need to get new ones?

I’m obviously doing it wrong. I obviously just don’t know how to do Canberra properly. I am a failure.

*sigh*

Granny said :

I’m just trying to figure out how I can get wise enough to reach the skies … I’ve never done that before! Have you?

Oh yes, several times a day.. ever since I moved here from boring old Brisbane. Doesn’t everyone? I thought it was just the “done thing”?

Having lived here for a few years I’ve always found it surprising that Canberra has such a poor rep in the nation.

Now I’ve heard that song though, I see why.

*hehe*

It’s gorgeous! I’m just trying to figure out how I can get wise enough to reach the skies … I’ve never done that before! Have you?

*chuckle*

granny: It has that certain suburban charm, doesn’t it? 🙂

No, I wasn’t here when Hayley was on Idol, but we used to be pretty regular Idol watchers and I just looked up her website and I can remember her – but not the fact that she’s from Canberra. That’s probably because my memory is like a seive though.

Oh, bless his little buttons! What a sweetie!! I’m going to ask Jon to make it our city anthem.

*chuckle*

You mustn’t have been in town when our Hayley did okay… (not that I watch Idol, honest, I don’t!)

Would he be Canberra’s first entrant into Australian Idol if he were to try out? I can’t Marcia, Dicko and Kyle coming to Canberra before for auditions.

More like aspirin, not Vodka. He was painful. If the guy sang any flatter he’d be a shoe in for an Australian idol audition.

Now just try and get that tune out of your head! 🙂 It’s gonna take vodka… lots of vodka.

Haha, that’s superb! I was going to make a Brisbane gag for you radonezh, but after seeing that clip, well, I’ve been left speechless…