[UA] Adelaide, Aussies and other Assonance (RE: [UA] Ritual killing in London)

[David M Jacobs]

At 05:45 PM 31/07/2003 +0930, James Knevitt wrote:

>One thing (which I'm sure isn't unique to Adelaide) is that for a city of 
>a million
>people, it's just ike a small town in that someone you've just met is 
>bound to know
>someone else you know. Everyone knows everyone else. Scary.

That's what I referred to as the Adelaide Effect (a term that a lot of my 
SA friends use), and AFAIK, it's unique, at least in Australia.  I grew up 
in Canberra -- about a third the population of Adelaide -- and a school 
friend of mine has just popped up, after going to ground to 18 
months.  Everyone thought that he was in Canada.  That sort of thing 
couldn't possibly happen in Adelaide; someone would've recognised him.

>As for Aussies, on the list, how many of us ARE there? Better put: what 
>percentage of
>the UA list is Australian?

Um, me, for one.  Actually, it wouldn't surprise me greatly if there were a 
fair number here; Aussies seem to have a thing for "fringe" gaming.  When I 
was freelancing for DP9, a fair number of their writers hailed from Down 
Under, and some of the best CoC scenarios that I've seen came out of 
Melbourne in the early '90s.  In a country that can point to both Priscila 
and Chopper as parts of its cultural heritage, where most Liberals are 
conservative, where anarchists protest for "global justice", and where we 
eat our national symbols, is it that surprising that a game as weirdly cool 
as UA might have a cult following?



David M Jacobs
dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
ICQ UIN: 17027598

Last night, I dreamt that I'd pinned Bruce Willis beneath an unpainted 
section of picket fence in his front yard, and that I beat him to death 
with a copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  I awoke with blood on my 
face.  Note to self: never eat penne before bedtime again.



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