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What Passes For News Around Here

I think I have shared before about some of the crazy things we see on local television out here. The ad for flying sheep selling drench (parasite medicine for sheep) is particularly memorable for all the wrong reasons. Less memorable are ads for local businesses that play late at night. I don’t really think I need to drive two hours to see the wide range of crystals and candles, or ugg boots etc.

What I find most amusing are the “news updates” – and I use the inverted commas intentionally. Recent updates include Wagga Wagga (2 hour drive away) getting a new mobile coffee van, and a local hospital having an open day.

I get that not much happens out here (and that is a great thing), but there is so much happening out in the world. Surely there are things worth talking about, besides coffee vans!?

What passes for news around your place?

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  1. Cattle and Cushions says

    May 29, 2013 at 6:13 am

    Ha!

    I have grown up with those regional ads, and I never realised how funny they were to city people until a city bred family member commented how funny they can be.

    We have a joke in our family that only people who have seen the ad will get… There was this partcularly bad ad that was on tv for about 20 years for a car salesman called Ian Parker. The ad with it's music went "Ian Parker cares, who cares" and so on.

    If we are to say "Who cares" in our house now, we say "call Ian Parker – he cares!"

    So funny!

    You had to be there I guess…

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    • Jo says

      May 29, 2013 at 9:37 am

      Ha! Love it!

      Reply
  2. Jan says

    May 28, 2013 at 11:08 pm

    I studied agriculture many years ago and we spent a week every year visiting farms in an area of the state. We were up around Walgett, Moree etc when I heard my first ever insect count early one morning on the local news. Necessary for those growing cotton to know as cotton is particularly vulnerable to insects, but I was astonished the first time I heard the overnight counts from the insect traps.

    I've also seen those ads you speak of, sometimes for the local caravan park, or the butcher or whatever. Don't forget the arrival of Mrs Jones' great grandchild!

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