Mastodawn

How many politicians get a church named after them?! I was travelling along Sugarbag Road¹ Caloundra yesterday and thought a Uniting Church was named after Saint Franklin. What?! A Uniting Church² named after a saint?! Nope. It’s the Sir Franklin Nicklin Uniting Church. I had assumed Nicklin was a politician. Who else would the busy major road that is Nicklin Way be named after? But I didn’t know anything else. Wikipedia taught me that he was the Premier of Queensland (before I was born) and his moniker was Honest Frank, even according to the Opposition.

1. Okay. It’s possible that it was before Queen St becomes Sugarbag Road but I’m not missing out on the chance to mention Sugarbag Road.

2. The Uniting Church was formed when the Australian Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists united.

#SunshineCoast #UnitingChurch #Nicklin

Peter Oram 1d ago

tjhowse 1d ago

#brisbane go outside and look up holy shit.

Peter Oram 2d ago

I was so shocked at finding this in the glovebox of the car my son usually drives that I forgot what I was looking for!

Peter Oram 2d ago

Like sand through the hourglass, so is the stubble from my electric shaver…

Peter Oram 2d ago

@Alkibiades Is your name the same as the cute guy who chatted up Socrates at the banquet?!

Peter Oram 4d ago

You only live once, right? Well, except for Lazarus. Poor sucker, he had to die twice.

Peter Oram 4d ago

hugo.5d ago

I've just launched a new blog, dedicated to a subject I've long been fascinated with - phallic studies. ♂️ In the introductory post I've delved into the etymology of the very word "phallus". It seemed apropos to start with the lexical roots...

https://phallicstudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/phallus-etymology/

#etymology #phallus #blog #language

Peter Oram 5d ago

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops 5d ago

Last time I went for an oil change there were three lads struggling to push a car up a tow truck ramp. They'd just fallen back as I pulled up, and were struggling to try again.

They got the car up in the end because there wasn't anyone around telling them they were doing it wrong or explaining gravity to them or saying that there was no way they'd ever get it up so why bother, instead there was just a random bloke who made it four guys instead of three and the car went up and a little while later that bloke got his wallet out to pay for the oil change and got told to put it away and everybody had a generally nice day.

That's one way that real life is different from the internet

Peter Oram Jul 8

Je vous remercie tous mes amis francophones ! Je suis trop heureux que vous m’incluez dans les discussions. J’espère que vous demandez si vous ne comprenez pas.

Peter Oram Jul 8