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un-Melburnian

Thursday 14 June 2007, 7:21 am

The Editor

Categories: Melbourne

Tags: JohnSo, SandridgeBridge, unAustralian, unMelburnian, vandalism

We’ve all heard the favoured insult — un-Australian — of politicians who wish to strike out at values not aligned with their own, but now there’s a new un word that we in Melbourne can hurl around with gay abandon: un-Melburnian.

This latest bastardisation of the language comes courtesy of Melbourne Lord Mayor John So (who is definitely not John Surname’s bro.) He has branded a public art vandal un-Melburnian for taking a sledgehammer to the Sandridge Bridge. But as with the concept of un-Australian, to truly understand what is un something we must first know what it is to be that something in the first place. So, dear readers, help me to work out what somebody must be lacking to be accurately labeled as un-Melburnian.

A taste for real coffee? A sense of smug satisfaction at being better than Sydney? A love of “unique laneways”?

3 Comments

The Happy Revolutionary (Thursday 14 June 2007, 4:13 pm) #

It’s unMelbournian to do the following:

- Know or care about any form of rugby. In fact, south of the border, the aforementioned sport is known as ‘thugby’.
- Wear anything other than black when in the CBD in Winter.
- To pass from the CBD to the Northern suburbs at 3am without taking a drunken decision to get souvlaki in Fitzroy.
- To attempt to drink the dishwater that passes for beer and wine in the Northern states.
- To get from one end of Punt Rd to the other in less than an hour, at any time of the day or night.
fred (Thursday 14 June 2007, 7:08 pm) #

Play in AFL finals?
John Surname (Monday 18 June 2007, 8:48 am) #

“Play in AFL finals?”

Hahahahahaha.

Thanks for the link there, The Editor.