Archive for June, 2011

Sue City – the downfall of auto-generated website content

I was perusing a map of the Snowy Mountains the other day, and located on the shores of the Tumut River I stumbled upon a rather interesting township name – Sue City. During my recent trip to the Snowy Mountains I drove past the site, but had no other leads to follow. My first stop in the search to find out more was Google, which turned up the following rather useless results.

Google search results for "Sue City, NSW"

Electrolysis – but you don’t do hair removal?

If you are eagle eyed during your travels around Melbourne, you might have spotted one of these signs. Despite what the plate says, this isn’t some kind of bizarre advertising for a hair removal clinic!

Electrolysis - call this number!

Raymond Island Ferry

As a born and bred Victorian, when I think “car ferry” I picture the big vessels used on the Queenscliff – Sorrento run across Port Phillip Heads, not the dinky little punts used to cross rivers. However, Victoria does have one such ferry: crossing the 152 metre wide McMillan Strait between Paynesville and Raymond Island in the Gippsland Lakes.

Ferry arriving into Raymond Island

The company formerly known as National Mutual

Which Melbourne building is this, and which television tune goes with it? The answer to both is a defunct insurance company…

Curtain wall of the National Mutual Plaza