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[worksmart]

[The camera clicks on to an inner city river view completely devoid of people. It does, however, come with a cinematic voiceover.]

I actually grew up a bit further north, in Parkville.

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[adamantined]

Isn't it a little bit early to be putting out Australia Day decorations?

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[worksmart]

are you kidding? I've seen santa in the stores by September.

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[adamantined]

Yeah, but at least the music doesn't start up until the day after Thanksgiving. What's that smaller building all lit up in the center? It looks like a rocket.

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[worksmart]

I was going to wait for Boxing day before I piped Waltzing Matilda through the building.

...Not a building. That's a ferris wheel.

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[adamantined]

Now we all have something to look forward to.

[Pause.]

Oh, so it's a flying saucer.

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[worksmart]

...It's a revolving saucer.

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[adamantined]

Well, it's a really pretty revolving saucer. The whole thing is actually really pretty, all the lights and everything. And really detailed for a snow globe. We don't have anything like that in any of the places that I've lived.

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[worksmart]

You've spent time in New York, right? The building to the left of the wheel's Eureka Tower. Our Empire State.

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[adamantined]

The equivalent of five minutes. I didn't manage to get up to the Empire State Building, but... why's it called Eureka Tower? Do they invent things there?

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[worksmart]

Not that I know of. It's named after an uprising of goldminers who wanted better rights. Don't think they'd have been familiar with Archimedes.

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[adamantined]

That's probably a good thing. There might not have been a tower if they'd been an uprising of naked gold miners.

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[worksmart]

It might have had a different shape.

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[adamantined]

I like it the way it is. It'd stop being such a nice gift as far as the deities are concerned if it looked like something else.