loosewheel wrote:
Years ago in Victoria, Australia the Kennett government was elected. This government introduced some pretty harsh laws directed at certain sections of society, and there was a bit of an exodus from the state. The slogan on the state licence plates at the time was “Victoria – On The Move”. When the next government came to power the slogan changed to “Victoria – The Place To Be”. Sort of “It's OK, he's gone. You can all come back now.” I thought it was funny.
i can not see any association between those 2 number plate slogans i am sorry.
however, with reference to both victorian number plate slogans, i can say that i have formulated many thoughts about them.
victorians are not considered to be the best drivers in NSW, and they are often short sighted when it comes to making executive decisions. i have not much admiration for drivers from victoria.
in regard to the earlier slogan "Victoria - On The Move", i quipped to my friend that everywhere on earth is "on the move" due to tectonic plate movement, so if that is all that victorians can claim to be good at, then what a boring bunch of people they must be. possibly an explanation as to why they are such bad drivers as well. no foresight.
hind sight is not nearly as valid as fore sight.
with respect to the second slogan "Victoria - The Place to be", i once was in a traffic jam that extended for an indeterminate length, and i started to become super impatient. it was like a feeling of mental claustrophobia and i started to look for faults in the stationary scenery that i could complain about to my girlfriend tammy who was sitting next to me.
i then noticed that the car in front of me had a victorian number plate, and i mused over the slogan "the place to be".
that is where he damned well should have been. why are there so many victorian drivers on our roads?
i then calculated that if he was in victoria like his number plate suggests is the place to be, then i would be 5 meters closer to the font of the traffic jam.
i wonder how many other victorian drivers were in that traffic jam.