Adelaide – Up Yours

Screw Staines hello Adelaide? Well so says M&C Saatchi in a big new advertising campaign to get suckers to migrate to the boring and dry South Australian city…

So how do the ‘cities’ compare? Here goes:

Adelaide		Staines
founded	1836	founded	43 AD
river	Murray	river	Thames
habitat	Bush with swampland	habitat	Concrete with moorland
Former proud industry	Chrysler	Former proud industry	Lagonda
Rainfall	Very unreliable	Rainfall	Very reliable
’spiritual’ home of	Rupert Murdoch	‘actual’ home of	Richard Murdoch
Drinks	warm wine	Drinks	warm beer
Inspirational local female	Sister Janet Mead	Inspirational local female	Christine Keeler
Wildlife	Tiger Snakes	Wildlife	Mall Rats
Music	I Killed The Prom Queen	Music	Hard Fi
Permanently	Dry	Permanently	Wet
World Heitage	None yet	World Heritage	Magna Carta
Bird	Noisy Black Swan	Bird	Mute White Swan
This land really belongs to	The Aboriginals	This land really belongs to	The Asbos
Tribal leaders first met at	The Old Gum Tree	Tribal leaders first met at	The Spelthorne
Most famous son who didn’t actually come from here	AC/DC’s Bon Scott	Most famous son who didn’t actually come from here	Ali G
Total	0/16	Total	13/16

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~ by staines on February 7, 2008.