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First Dog On The Moon

I love trams and I vote

First Dog On The Moon

Jul 05, 2012

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  1. Peterh
    July 5, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    can this idea be adopted to something else, say…. the winner of the sydney monorail? It will either be Canberra or Tasmania…

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  2. Venise Alstergren
    July 5, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    For all you auslanders who don’t live in Victoria the international, er, national treasure, is not joking about the jack-booted, crazed thugs patrolling our trams.
    Interstate travellers are advised to carry Certificates of Domicile AT ALL TIMES. And dual passport holders are advised to leave one half at home. 🙂

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  3. Venise Alstergren
    July 5, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    Venise Alstergren
    Posted Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 7:07 pm | Permalink
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    For all you auslanders who don’t live in Victoria the international, er, national treasure, is not joking about the jack-booted, crazed thugs patrolling our trams.
    Interstate travellers are advised to carry Certificates of Domicile AT ALL TIMES. And dual passport holders are advised to leave one half at home.

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  4. klewso
    July 5, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    “Play Melbourne – and get your ticket punched!”

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  5. klewso
    July 5, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    “Perfect Plan”?
    “……. Get on my tram,
    with our program,
    treat ya body like junk.
    Then, we can all scram.”?

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  6. Sandshoe
    July 5, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    I’ve seen a stunning sequence of significance in tram and ram and am which leads me to postulate the Law of Diminishing Returns.

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  7. Mike Smith
    July 5, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    @Venise: I don’t feel under obligation to carry, or more likely produce, ID for public transport. Driving, yes. Hmm, with a swipe arphid, how do patrols tell whether you swiped it when boarding?

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  8. Holden Back
    July 6, 2012 at 9:53 am

    Just make the tickets look like guinea pigs, and everyone will want one.

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  9. Steve Gardner
    July 6, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    Last night. 11:21 Frankston train from South Yarra. 3 police boarded and asked to see everyone’s “tickets”. I looked blankly at them, paused, then offerred, “Myki?”. they said “sure.” I showed them my myki card. I thought to myself, but did not verbalise, “What is the point of looking at myki card? You can’t tell if I swiped it just by looking at it.”

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  10. Mike Smith
    July 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    @Steve: Swipe it whilst it’s attached to one of these:

    kickstarter.com/projects/1127228691/the-humn-wallet-the-best-minimal-rfid-blocking-wal

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