Thread: Road toll rises

Originally Posted by Homestar

I bet you’d correct someone if they were incorrectly spelling or pronouncing the area you lived in.

The locals call it " the Kimberleys" , some of them at least. Reminds me of Mackay , Live in the town it's Mack-A, outsiders usually say Mack-I.


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Originally Posted by Homestar

I bet you’d correct someone if they were incorrectly spelling or pronouncing the area you lived in.

My Daughter lives in Kunnanurra and she calls the area the Kimberlies

I've been to the Pilbaras, too

Funny thing about Mackay is that the bloke the city is named after pronounced his name Mack-I, as do his descendants.
We have friends in the late 60s who are born and bred Mackavites and they pronounce it Mack-I.

FOOTNOTE: the term 'Mackavite' was coined by me when my brother and family moved there a few years ago.

Originally Posted by bob10

You may have something there . When living in Darwin, if I asked how long it took to get to such and such, the reply was normally something like " it's a four stubbie trip".

Back in gentler and less law abiding times, a mate and I regularly drank a carton of cans between Coogee and New Farm via the Putty Road and New England Highway. Often stopped off for a few schooners and a countery at Bendemeer or the Red Lion or the Deepwater top pub.

My memory of the Putty Road from when I did it three or four times a year in the 1960s is that it was the sort of road that I would not want to attempt with a few cans or schooners on board.
Still it was an easier option than the unsealed Wollombi/Broke Road.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Back in gentler and less law abiding times, a mate and I regularly drank a carton of cans between Coogee and New Farm via the Putty Road and New England Highway. Often stopped off for a few schooners and a countery at Bendemeer or the Red Lion or the Deepwater top pub.

When I worked remote DiDo, it was a 674km drive home.
A 6 pack of Jacks and Cola in the console and crack one every 100km was the usual return home drive - first can opened as soon as the LV turned onto the highway - at this rate it kept BAC well below 0.05%.

Was a good way to wind down at the end of the block.

Originally Posted by vnx205

My memory of the Putty Road from when I did it three or four times a year in the 1960s is that it was the sort of road that I would not want to attempt with a few cans or schooners on board.
Still it was an easier option than the unsealed Wollombi/Broke Road.

When I first used the Putty Road it was still partly unsealed. Our bench mark was 2 1/2 hours Burwood to Singleton. I also used the Wollombi road a lot as it was then the best way into or out of Sydney if you were going to inner suburbs.

Originally Posted by Saitch

I've been to the Pilbaras, too

Funny thing about Mackay is that the bloke the city is named after pronounced his name Mack-I, as do his descendants.
We have friends in the late 60s who are born and bred Mackavites and they pronounce it Mack-I.

FOOTNOTE: the term 'Mackavite' was coined by me when my brother and family moved there a few years ago.

Years ago, not saying how long, you could tell where some one was from by the language they used. EG, Rockhampton was always 'Rocky', Cloncurry ' the Curry', Mackay ' Mack-a' etc. This slowed down when we got the influx of southern refugees, older Qlders can usually pick a blow-in by their language. For example, no Qlder worth their salt calls the Sunshine coast the ' Sunny coast'. A dead set giveaway, that one.