Via DPF: Former Python John Cleese didn't like Palmerston North very much, saying
"If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick."
The Mayor is outraged, but I think she should just face facts: Palmerston's biggest "drawcard" is that it's "a great place to raise kids". If that phrase doesn't scream "dull, boring, and insipid", then I don't know what does.
5 comments:
This is just Cleese's way of ensuring that he gets a really, really good motel at the next few dozen provincial towns he tours to.
Posted by Anonymous : 3/08/2006 12:00:00 PM
I lived there 10 years - I agree with JC.
Posted by Anonymous : 3/08/2006 01:00:00 PM
"parochial morons ... and drunk ... students" also captures Dunedin quite nicely.
Dunedin! Not as cold as Invercargill!
Dunedin! Not as windy as Wellington!
Posted by dc_red : 3/08/2006 06:10:00 PM
Palmerston's biggest "drawcard" is that it's "a great place to raise kids". If that phrase doesn't scream "dull, boring, and insipid", then I don't know what does.
"Palmerston North. Always playing second fiddle to a nice little town between Waikouaiti and Hampden best known for the local bakery's revolting greasy mutton pies."
- Dave J.
Posted by Anonymous : 3/08/2006 08:22:00 PM
You lot would start all this right when I'm about to move back there. Don't forget, from this distance the rest of NZ looks like a boring wasteland of parochial drunkards too.
Posted by Psycho Milt : 3/08/2006 09:12:00 PM
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