Saw her again today, the first time I saw her would be at least 20 and maybe even 30 years ago, I wonder if it is the same person? About average height, slim build, and long flowing and bouncing red pony tail, anyone got any further info about her please?

Anything suspicious about her?
Ammunition belt? Jihab?

You call her a “girl” but you first saw her 30 years ago. Does she look any older? Maybe it’s her daughter.

Bubblecar said:

You call her a “girl” but you first saw her 30 years ago. Does she look any older? Maybe it’s her daughter.

Hi Bubbles, didn’t see her face, and yes could be her daughter.

Maybe next time you see her you could stop her and say “Excuse me, I’m looking for more info about you.”

Yea, asking questions on a random internet forum is the least creepy method to get info…

Bubblecar said:

Maybe next time you see her you could stop her and say “Excuse me, I’m looking for more info about you.”

Yeah good idea, but you see her very infrequently, but will consider that the next time I see her if practicl, and can catch up to her.

poikilotherm said:

Yea, asking questions on a random internet forum is the least creepy method to get info…

I’m a bit nonplussed by the inquiry, truth be told. Is she famous for her running or suchlike, or just someone that bob’s taken a fancy to?

Bubblecar said:

poikilotherm said:

Yea, asking questions on a random internet forum is the least creepy method to get info…

I’m a bit nonplussed by the inquiry, truth be told. Is she famous for her running or suchlike, or just someone that bob’s taken a fancy to?

Not just me, I think there was a newspaper article about her about 10 or 15 years ago.

bob(from black rock) said:

Saw her again today, the first time I saw her would be at least 20 and maybe even 30 years ago, I wonder if it is the same person? About average height, slim build, and long flowing and bouncing red pony tail, anyone got any further info about her please?

maybe she’s an alien

Do you mean the famous “Melbourne Skipping Girl”?

See article about her here

In May 2008 this iconic Melbourne sign was included on the Victorian Heritage Register of the State’s most significant places and objects. Having fallen into disrepair and non-operational for more than a decade, National Trust Chairman, Dr Graeme Blackman, launched the appeal to raise funds for its repair and maintenance.

I didn’t know about her until a year or two ago when I read an excellent book about advertising signs in Melbourne, written by a lecturer or former lecturer at Melbourne University.

Same girl at night.

What the fuck

dv said:

What the fuck

+1

mollwollfumble said:

Same girl at night.
!http://scatteredroundtheworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/night-skipping-girl.jpg

or another Melbourne running girl:

dv said:

What the fuck

yeah.. stalker alert

mollwollfumble said:

Same girl at night.

Yeah can remember seeing that sign in Melbourne, back in the days before TV, some nights my parents would take me for a drive to look at the neon signs, the skipping girl was the best. Have a friend who used to work for the company who sold the product.

The Allen’s Sweets neon sign was also a Melbourne icon.

Witty Rejoinder said:

The Allen’s Sweets neon sign was also a Melbourne icon.

Witty, don’t remember that one, where and when was it located?

bob(from black rock) said:

Witty, don’t remember that one, where and when was it located?

Was located where Southbank is today. Was dismantled in 1985 or so.

Witty Rejoinder said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Witty, don’t remember that one, where and when was it located?

Was located where Southbank is today. Was dismantled in 1985 or so.

Ta Witty, never saw that one.

Witty Rejoinder said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Witty, don’t remember that one, where and when was it located?

Was located where Southbank is today. Was dismantled in 1985 or so.

Just across the river from Flinder’s St Station Bob.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Witty, don’t remember that one, where and when was it located?

Was located where Southbank is today. Was dismantled in 1985 or so.

Just across the river from Flinder’s St Station Bob.

Ta, I know where you mean, but never used the Flinders St Station in that time period.

So is it an ad for vinegar?

dv said:

So is it an ad for vinegar?

Yes.

dv said:

So is it an ad for vinegar?

Vinegar is a very useful product that was used a lot in the olden days. Hippies still swear by it to replace most of the stuff that’s in the kitchen cupboard under the sink.

Skipping Girl Vinegar

AwesomeO said:

dv said:

So is it an ad for vinegar?

Vinegar is a very useful product that was used a lot in the olden days. Hippies still swear by it to replace most of the stuff that’s in the kitchen cupboard under the sink.

It is also not bad on fish and chips and is useful for household science demonstrations.

• Skipping Girl Vinegar

Skipping Girl Vinegar are a Melbourne-based indie rock band, named after the Audrey the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign, located in Abbotsford, Victoria.

bob(from black rock) said:

Bubblecar said:

poikilotherm said:

Yea, asking questions on a random internet forum is the least creepy method to get info…

I’m a bit nonplussed by the inquiry, truth be told. Is she famous for her running or suchlike, or just someone that bob’s taken a fancy to?

Not just me, I think there was a newspaper article about her about 10 or 15 years ago.

More generally, bob appears to have finally slid clear off his cracker.

dv said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m a bit nonplussed by the inquiry, truth be told. Is she famous for her running or suchlike, or just someone that bob’s taken a fancy to?

Not just me, I think there was a newspaper article about her about 10 or 15 years ago.

More generally, bob appears to have finally slid clear off his cracker.

Yeah, so please be carefull not to step on me down here.

Srsly, what are you talking about?

Does she stop & write Eternity on the footpath?

Kind of lame that some chintzy neon sign from the 1930s is considered a monument worth protecting in Melbourne.

dv said:

Kind of lame that some chintzy neon sign from the 1930s is considered a monument worth protecting in Melbourne.

Have you had a good look at Melbourne? especially recently?

no

dv said:

no

Then don’t bother.

CTTOI, I don’t believe I’ve been in Melbourne this millennium.

bob(from black rock) said:

dv said:

no

Then don’t bother.

But I don’t want to miss out on this running girl, so notable that there was a newspaper article about her.

For those of you under forty: a newspaper was like a news website, but static, printed out on big sheets of grayish paper for some reason.

dv said:

bob(from black rock) said:

dv said:

no

Then don’t bother.

But I don’t want to miss out on this running girl, so notable that there was a newspaper article about her.

For those of you under forty: a newspaper was like a news website, but static, printed out on big sheets of grayish paper for some reason.

This was a very clever strategy to get people to deliver the papers free of charge to fish and chip shops as wrapping material.

dv said:

bob(from black rock) said:

dv said:

no

Then don’t bother.

But I don’t want to miss out on this running girl, so notable that there was a newspaper article about her.

For those of you under forty: a newspaper was like a news website, but static, printed out on big sheets of grayish paper for some reason.

Many secondary uses. Swatting flies, starting fires, mopping spills, emergency bog paper, to name but a few.

dv said:

bob(from black rock) said:

dv said:

no

Then don’t bother.

But I don’t want to miss out on this running girl, so notable that there was a newspaper article about her.

For those of you under forty: a newspaper was like a news website, but static, printed out on big sheets of grayish paper for some reason.

Reading W&P the aristocrats had an ancient form of email, ie four mail deliveries a day, and they used to pass each other little cards. Much the same happened in London.

And have you tried to make a cool pirate’s hat out of buzzfeed? Can’t be done

Tamb said:

dv said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Then don’t bother.

But I don’t want to miss out on this running girl, so notable that there was a newspaper article about her.

For those of you under forty: a newspaper was like a news website, but static, printed out on big sheets of grayish paper for some reason.

Many secondary uses. Swatting flies, starting fires, mopping spills, emergency bog paper, to name but a few.

And some people actually read,and believed, what was printed on it.

dv said:

CTTOI, I don’t believe I’ve been in Melbourne this millennium.

TFFT

OCDC said:

dv said:

CTTOI, I don’t believe I’ve been in Melbourne this millennium.

TFFT

I got married there. I’m not going back in case something worse happens.

bob(from black rock) said:

And some people actually read,and believed, what was printed on it.

Only in ‘The Truth’.

“Salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper” was a refrain from many a skipping rhyme, which presumably accounts for their choice of name & logo.

sibeen said:

bob(from black rock) said:

And some people actually read,and believed, what was printed on it.

Only in ‘The Truth’.

I used to read “The Truth” on the theory that if you ignored the scandal, tits & bums, the rest of the news was accurate.

Tamb said:

sibeen said:

bob(from black rock) said:

And some people actually read,and believed, what was printed on it.

Only in ‘The Truth’.

I used to read “The Truth” on the theory that if you ignored the scandal, tits & bums, the rest of the news was accurate.

…only because there wasn’t any :)

Before when I was interested in papers but according to the crime writer sylvester the truth regularly used to feature close ups of car smashes and you knew that the black ink was blood.