North Queenslanders - You got to love them!
With in-laws up there, I must admit to having a soft-spot for North Queenslanders. There’s been books written about them and regularly, they’ll come up with some beauties. Great start to another week:
Mount Isa Mayor invites “ugly women” - giving them a chance to find a bloke!
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/08/16/15499_news.html
Now we stumbled upon this one by chance. The section on what “ladies” should wear is a classic:
http://www.cairnsdining.com/xmasparty-etiquette.html
There should be a whole blog dedicated to North Queesland stories!
August 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Some absolute pearls of wisdom there Drazen - we can really learn a lot from the North Queenslanders.
I do believe, though, that the ‘invite the ugly women’ initiative was originally implemented by the mayor of Parramatta - any day of the week, just check out Parra mall (I can hear the banjos playing now).
I did also enjoy the Cairns Christmas party etiquette article, and I quote: “If you see the IT manager sitting on his own in a dark corner, help him out and go speak to him. The poor guy has problems fitting in.”
God only knows how they would deal with a security manager!
August 18th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Should be adding that talking about pig hunting should be restricted to the gents bathroom or outside smoko.:-)
Only Gold and Bundy to be served.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
@SM, not touching the Parra comments whatsoever.
The poor lonely IT Managers? Gees, not the ones I know up there. I don’t think I have met one shy one who has trouble fitting in. The Big Galoot spent many a year up there, Michael B (not mentioning his surname just in case), MH and a whole plethora of guys we deal with on a regular basis. Did I mention there’s an SG Nth QLD office opening up soon?
Who writes this stuff? Legendary!:-)
August 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Luv the ads that the Townsville paper in the link has supporting the story. Weight watchers!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:59 am
The plot thickens…. Take a look at what the local MP has to say… and most of all her profile picture…
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/08/18/15537_hpphoto.html
PS I would like to add that this all North West QLD.. A far cry from the beauty of the East Coast..
August 20th, 2008 at 9:05 am
This guy is brilliant!
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/08/20/15579_hpphoto.html
August 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
@Suruchi Mohan I do believe that you are correct about Paramatta.
I remember one day when walking through the new sydney “CBD” aka Parramatta to my very swish office building along with all the other “Suits” going to their equally swish offices at 8.30 in the morning when a Huge fat guy in thongs and shorts goes bolting past, zigzaging through the crowd followed by …. an even fatter guy in thongs and a tracksuit waving a baseball bat. …. Very Nice.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Maybe they were on their way to a baseball game and one fat dude decided to steel his mate’s doughnut!
Maybe not…we don’t play baseball here.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I think it was a kebab…I saw them!
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Couldn’t resist this topic.
Am on my annual pig hunting/barra fishing pilgrimage in the Northern Territory as we speak.
Latest Darwin newspaper headlines includes this gem;
“Speeding man caught masturbating at 200kph”
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Oh BG. You are just a big QLDer born and raised in the wrong state.