Will Fox wrote:
>Indented Head is quite a nice little town. Of course it got its name from
>the fable of the 'Poppy Kettle', the kettle that carried a bunch of gnomes
>(or some other small creature) from South America to Port Phillip Bay.
>Hilarious really. The last leg of the gnome's treacherous journey involved a
>friendly dolphin that carried the kettle to land...and unfortunately the
>dolphin whacked its head on the shore...causing an indentation to form in
>the land at that point. Hence, Indented Head.
So, is this the source of that wonderful Australian put-down of
the SWELLED head as a "tall poppy"?
Candice
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