Below I have copied and pasted a few selections from a website that has interesting facts about Melbourne.
Oh, and here’s the URL to the site:
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/trivia_archive.php
Long before Melbourne became the City of Melbourne, it was called Batmania, Bearbrass, Bearport, Bareheap and Bearbury. Some of these names were derived from the Aboriginal name for the area which was Berren or Bararing, plus there was the Big Miam Miam (as they termed the Town plenty of white Bread).
About 90 tonnes of dog poo is left on the streets of Melbourne every day!
The problem is rated as one of the top five litter problems in the city. A survey has showed that only one dog-owner in four bothers to pick up their pooch's droppings.
In September last year, around 200 people attended the first ever dog poo summit, in suburban Doncaster, at which a variety of experts presented different angles to solving the problem of dog poo litter.
Melbourne started as an illegal settlement. A dubious treaty signed with aboriginal leaders in 1835 gave a syndicate of Tasmanian sheep farmers led by John Batman the 'ownership' of most of the land bordering Port Phillip Bay
New South Wales Governor Richard Bourke declared Batman's treaty illegal and the settlers to be trespassers. But within two years, more than 350 people and 55 000 sheep had landed and Melbourne was a fact.
Feral cats, foxes, rabbits and kangaroos are part of Melbourne Airport’s population. There are hundreds of animals living within the 2369 hectare airport’s boundaries The airport also maintains and is revegetating a grey box forest at the north-western end of the (grey box is a variety of eucalypt).
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Kara
Co-ML, Memphis TN
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"However, if anything is missing from above the knee level, there's only one person who knows about it, and is hiding the details because he's too afraid to tell his wife." - Laurie Notaro, Autobiography of a Fat Bride
91,273 / 50,000
Nov 18, 2007 - 21 55
Another interesting fact I uncovered for Dev...
Elvis never played in Australia. (well not the real one anyway) I feel bad for them.
=^_^=
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Nov 18, 2007 - 22 42
About 90 tonnes of dog poo is left on the streets of Melbourne every day!
The problem is rated as one of the top five litter problems in the city. A survey has showed that only one dog-owner in four bothers to pick up their pooch's droppings.
In September last year, around 200 people attended the first ever dog poo summit, in suburban Doncaster, at which a variety of experts presented different angles to solving the problem of dog poo litter.
Hahahahahahahahahah!
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Jenny, co-ML for Memphis, TN
50,172 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2007 - 01 36
*img src="http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/RegionWar/117-4-average-wc-people.png" /* * = angle brackets.
Cannot kill the total words and show just the average that I have found.
52,556 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2007 - 10 27
Oh, well, of course Melbourne has a higher word count. They have 230 freakin' people! And some of them aren't even in Melbourne! Cheaters! We must smother them with our highly superior "average word count per person"! Ahaha!
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