Woop Woop - Defined by the 1988 definition of the Oxford Dictionary as "a remote and supposedly backward rural town or district", Woop Woop is named after an abandoned mill town that came into existence in 1925.
-- Edited by Vic on Friday 17th of February 2012 01:51:34 AM
jimricho said
03:21 PM Feb 17, 2012
The origin of many Australian place names is a fascinating history. I think that Useless Inlet (mentioned in the article) or Useless Loop as it's also known is so named as it's a false entrance to West Shark Bay.
In South Aust there's a Mount Hopeless, named by the explorer Edward Eyre.
Cape Tribulation In Far North Qld was named by Cook and alludes to his difficulty navigating his way through the myriad reefs in the area (the outcome of which is well known).
At Quirindi (SW of Tamworth) there's a lookout call "Who'd a'Thought It Lookout".
scotia59 said
07:02 PM Feb 17, 2012
taken at Boyup Brook (WA) Country Music Festival in Harvey Dickson's 'shed'.
KFT said
07:11 PM Feb 17, 2012
G'day Jim Richo you are spot on mate, who'd a thought you would find such a great view from up there?
the road up is a great test of a rigs pulling power too(and the brakes on the way back down)
With a westerly wind you can sample the aroma from the feedlot to the west of town.
I always wondered how the towns of Howlong and Toolong got the names they have
Beth54 said
12:06 AM Feb 18, 2012
Many years ago, we were to meet friends at Doon Doon,,,he was into geology...and we drove and drove and really didn't know where we were. So we stopped and asked a farmer, 'Scuse me mate, which way to Doon Doon?' He said, 'mate you're in it!'
PS: It's in Northern NSW.
dropbear68 said
03:13 AM Feb 18, 2012
I thought Canberra was woop woop?
dropbear68 said
03:13 AM Feb 18, 2012
Damn it I meant Canberra is poop poop!
Cruising Granny said
05:38 AM Feb 18, 2012
On the Eyre Peninsula there's a sign post to a district called "Nowhere Else". If you're travelling between Elliston and Port Lincoln it's to the north of the highway. I've never explored where it leads. SA place names have some gruesome origins too. eg Coffin Bay. And near Streaky Bay there's Eyre's Waterhole, because it is.
dropbear68 said
05:41 AM Feb 18, 2012
Yeah and Rapid Bay coz if you fall in the water and dont rapidly get out youll get rapidly eaten by a Great White
Vic said
06:26 AM Feb 18, 2012
scotia59 wrote:
taken at Boyup Brook (WA) Country Music Festival in Harvey Dickson's 'shed'.
Thanks Jean,
That's one place I want to visit one day (the shed I mean). Has anyone actually been to the genuine Woop Woop town/district????
jimricho said
07:50 AM Feb 18, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
Many moons ago now a mate and I were driving up to the Gold Coast and came across a sign next to a creek, it said "Sh...t Creek". we got out and took a photo of it and wow there was this very unpleasant smell, maybe it was SC. Can't find the photo anymore, like many others have vanished over the years.
Metaphorically speaking I've been there many times, usually without a paddle!
-- Edited by jimricho on Saturday 18th of February 2012 07:51:02 AM
Vic said
09:59 AM Feb 18, 2012
Was this the place Jimbo?
-- Edited by Vic on Saturday 18th of February 2012 10:06:11 AM
Many moons ago now a mate and I were driving up to the Gold Coast and came across a sign next to a creek, it said "Sh...t Creek". we got out and took a photo of it and wow there was this very unpleasant smell, maybe it was SC. Can't find the photo anymore, like many others have vanished over the years.
Delta18 said
02:02 AM Feb 20, 2012
Vic wrote:
scotia59 wrote:
taken at Boyup Brook (WA) Country Music Festival in Harvey Dickson's 'shed'.
Thanks Jean,
That's one place I want to visit one day (the shed I mean). Has anyone actually been to the genuine Woop Woop town/district????
I was at the Shed on Friday morning for the show and what a great show it was. It was part of the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival.
If you have never seen Pixie Jenkins live then do yourself a favour, go see him if possible.
He is having a show at the Pinjarra WA Hotel on wednesday 22nd Feb evening and we will be there.
-- Edited by Vic on Saturday 18th of February 2012 10:06:11 AM
I reckon you could be correct there Vic, been there myself on many occasions.
Vic said
05:17 AM Feb 20, 2012
Me too John......ask the missus !
Thanks for the link Neil hope you enjoy the show !
Cruising Granny said
06:13 AM Feb 20, 2012
You gotta laugh at the Australian sense of humour. We laugh at ourselves better than anyone else could laugh at us. The only thing funnier is the English translation of Asian signs. At one state I was photographing silly signs. Creeks, local roads, waterholes, hills and gullies. Check 'em out when you're on the road. I found it very entertaining and amusing. The further outback you get the "creative" the signs are.
Travel Bug said
07:48 AM Feb 20, 2012
Neil, I have seen Pixie Jenkins live lots of times....he is great!!!
The first time I saw him was in 1983 when he was playing in John Williamson's band and I have been a fan ever since.
Cheers. Pam.
JRH said
03:29 PM Feb 21, 2012
Vic wrote:
Could be worse, you could be in Woop Woop (that's Wombat's home town in WA.....only wombats live there)
And why do they call it Woop, Woop, 'cause that's where the wombats do their whoopsies, a real ****** place.
PS:- Edited for a typo.
-- Edited by JRH on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 06:22:25 PM
Gerty Dancer said
07:46 PM Feb 21, 2012
dropbear68 wrote:
Damn it I meant Canberra is poop poop!
Nothing upsets the residents of the beautiful city of Canberra as much as these kind of insults... presumably aimed at the Federal government.
Its always a predictable reply, when you tell a person in another state that you live in Canberra they ask how do we get on with John/Kevin/Julia/ whoever is the PM, and politicians in general. We Canberrans get one vote each, same as anybody else, and we have to put up with lazy journalists saying "Canberra said..." on the nightly news, causing everybody to blame the people of Canberra for whatever the journalists should have said the Federal Government did.
The politicians are just contract workers, mostly fly-in-fly-out, we only see them on TV like everybody else.
Ma said
10:18 PM Feb 21, 2012
You know it's directed at the pollies and the person saying it knows the same thing so I wouldn't let it get to you Gert.
Canberra is a beautiful city and as a resident you should be proud of it, as I am sure you are.
Don't let silly remarks get your back up, life's too short to take things too seriously.
Gerty Dancer said
10:26 PM Feb 21, 2012
I agree Ma... its just when you've heard it for the four hundred and fifty-third time over many years, and you are having an "iffy" day, it gets too much.
Ma said
10:28 PM Feb 21, 2012
I will send you some happy pills Gert. I actually saw some in a shop in Latrobe here in Tassie yesterday. I had to have a laugh. There was a pill for absolutely any occasion.
JRH said
10:45 PM Feb 21, 2012
Gerty Dancer wrote:
I agree Ma... its just when you've heard it for the four hundred and fifty-third time over many years, and you are having an "iffy" day, it gets too much.
Gert, take a deep breath and relax, you will only make yourself miserable if you get upset and you could do yourself a mischief and we don't want that now.
ChiChi1 said
11:19 PM Feb 21, 2012
I'm like you Rosey, I cringe everytime, someone asks where I'm from. Its as if we have a say about what goes on in Federal Parliament and are responsible for their actions.
Vic said
11:22 PM Feb 21, 2012
Could be worse, you could be in Woop Woop (that's Wombat's home town in WA.....only wombats live there)
Gerty Dancer said
11:27 PM Feb 21, 2012
Might be a good idea to move parliament house there, and give us poor Canberrans a break!
Vic said
01:38 AM Feb 22, 2012
Gerty Dancer wrote:
Might be a good idea to move parliament house there, and give us poor Canberrans a break!
Sounds good Gerty, would suit most of the pollies and they could keep an eye on Wombat......
Jack Mac said
01:55 AM Feb 22, 2012
Well they didn't build Canberra and decide to move the pollies there. The pollies wanted a home so they built Canberra.
ChiChi1 said
02:00 AM Feb 22, 2012
But they don't stay in Canberra, they live in their electorates and fly in and out for parlimentary sessions.
See this Landgate (Lands Dept) link;
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/where-the--is-that-was-weirdest-names-20111212-1orei.html
Woop Woop - Defined by the 1988 definition of the Oxford Dictionary as "a remote and supposedly backward rural town or district", Woop Woop is named after an abandoned mill town that came into existence in 1925.
-- Edited by Vic on Friday 17th of February 2012 01:51:34 AM
In South Aust there's a Mount Hopeless, named by the explorer Edward Eyre.
Cape Tribulation In Far North Qld was named by Cook and alludes to his difficulty navigating his way through the myriad reefs in the area (the outcome of which is well known).
At Quirindi (SW of Tamworth) there's a lookout call "Who'd a'Thought It Lookout".
you are spot on mate, who'd a thought you would find such a great view from up there?
the road up is a great test of a rigs pulling power too(and the brakes on the way back down)
With a westerly wind you can sample the aroma from the feedlot to the west of town.
I always wondered how the towns of Howlong and Toolong got the names they have
Many years ago, we were to meet friends at Doon Doon,,,he was into geology...and we drove and drove and really didn't know where we were. So we stopped and asked a farmer, 'Scuse me mate, which way to Doon Doon?' He said, 'mate you're in it!'
PS: It's in Northern NSW.
I thought Canberra was woop woop?
If you're travelling between Elliston and Port Lincoln it's to the north of the highway. I've never explored where it leads.
SA place names have some gruesome origins too. eg Coffin Bay. And near Streaky Bay there's Eyre's Waterhole, because it is.
Thanks Jean,
That's one place I want to visit one day (the shed I mean). Has anyone actually been to the genuine Woop Woop town/district????
Metaphorically speaking I've been there many times, usually without a paddle!
-- Edited by jimricho on Saturday 18th of February 2012 07:51:02 AM
Was this the place Jimbo?
-- Edited by Vic on Saturday 18th of February 2012 10:06:11 AM
Many moons ago now a mate and I were driving up to the Gold Coast and came across a sign next to a creek, it said "Sh...t Creek". we got out and took a photo of it and wow there was this very unpleasant smell, maybe it was SC. Can't find the photo anymore, like many others have vanished over the years.
I was at the Shed on Friday morning for the show and what a great show it was. It was part of the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival.
If you have never seen Pixie Jenkins live then do yourself a favour, go see him if possible.
He is having a show at the Pinjarra WA Hotel on wednesday 22nd Feb evening and we will be there.
Here is a youtube link to one of his 'acts'.
Cheers Neil
I reckon you could be correct there Vic, been there myself on many occasions.
Me too John......ask the missus !
Thanks for the link Neil hope you enjoy the show !
The only thing funnier is the English translation of Asian signs.
At one state I was photographing silly signs. Creeks, local roads, waterholes, hills and gullies. Check 'em out when you're on the road. I found it very entertaining and amusing. The further outback you get the "creative" the signs are.
Neil, I have seen Pixie Jenkins live lots of times....he is great!!!
The first time I saw him was in 1983 when he was playing in John Williamson's band and I have been a fan ever since.
Cheers. Pam.
And why do they call it Woop, Woop, 'cause that's where the wombats do their whoopsies, a real ****** place.
PS:- Edited for a typo.
-- Edited by JRH on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 06:22:25 PM
Nothing upsets the residents of the beautiful city of Canberra as much as these kind of insults... presumably aimed at the Federal government.
Its always a predictable reply, when you tell a person in another state that you live in Canberra they ask how do we get on with John/Kevin/Julia/ whoever is the PM, and politicians in general. We Canberrans get one vote each, same as anybody else, and we have to put up with lazy journalists saying "Canberra said..." on the nightly news, causing everybody to blame the people of Canberra for whatever the journalists should have said the Federal Government did.
The politicians are just contract workers, mostly fly-in-fly-out, we only see them on TV like everybody else.
You know it's directed at the pollies and the person saying it knows the same thing so I wouldn't let it get to you Gert.
Canberra is a beautiful city and as a resident you should be proud of it, as I am sure you are.
Don't let silly remarks get your back up, life's too short to take things too seriously.
I agree Ma... its just when you've heard it for the four hundred and fifty-third time over many years, and you are having an "iffy" day, it gets too much.
I will send you some happy pills Gert. I actually saw some in a shop in Latrobe here in Tassie yesterday. I had to have a laugh. There was a pill for absolutely any occasion.
Gert, take a deep breath and relax, you will only make yourself miserable if you get upset and you could do yourself a mischief and we don't want that now.
Could be worse, you could be in Woop Woop (that's Wombat's home town in WA.....only wombats live there)
Sounds good Gerty, would suit most of the pollies and they could keep an eye on Wombat......
Well they didn't build Canberra and decide to move the pollies there. The pollies wanted a home so they built Canberra.