This Is How Cliches Endure...
Jan. 17th, 2018 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanAustralia - First thing most people think of is kangaroos hopping down the streets of Sydney. Right?
But this never happens. Sydney is a modern, busy, thriving metropolis, with major highways, high-rise living & nowhere for kangaroos to live, except in zoos. Right?
Wrong!!
Okay, so it was a wallaby, not a kangaroo, but let's not quibble. The only way this could have been a more 'Australian' thing, is if the wallaby had been eating a vegemite sandwich & had a six-pack of Victoria Bitter in its pouch (Not even kangaroos will drink Fosters)
Meanwhile, on the streets of Canberra, the Nation's Capital...
But this never happens. Sydney is a modern, busy, thriving metropolis, with major highways, high-rise living & nowhere for kangaroos to live, except in zoos. Right?
Wrong!!
Okay, so it was a wallaby, not a kangaroo, but let's not quibble. The only way this could have been a more 'Australian' thing, is if the wallaby had been eating a vegemite sandwich & had a six-pack of Victoria Bitter in its pouch (Not even kangaroos will drink Fosters)
Meanwhile, on the streets of Canberra, the Nation's Capital...
