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The New Chapel St.: News from the Yarra Leader on what will replace the Punters Club: it will be a pizza bar named Bimbo Deluxe, with alcohol and "funky DJs" playing fashionable sounds for today's hip urban youth. One thing's for sure: it's not our place anymore; it now belongs to the trendies, wideboys and label-wearing wankers in $80 T-shirts.

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Posted by: ed http://www.asseptic.org/blog Tue Apr 2 13:57:08 2002

Bimbo? That's portuguese slang for northern people (like myself) who are FC Porto supporters, and also extends to people who wear moustaches and use hairgel (which I thankfully don't).

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Tue Apr 2 14:01:16 2002

Weird... here it's Californian slang for vacuous blonde female (probably used in some postmodern, ironic sense).

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Tue Apr 2 14:03:52 2002

Come to think of it, the paper description makes it sound like it's trying to be the new Fast Eddie's (a bar catering to 18-year-old suburban kids, situated next to one of Melbourne's biggest, and most commercial, nightclubs). It makes you wonder whether the "funky sounds" the DJs will be playing may perchance be all Destiny's Child all the time or something.

Posted by: Missjenjen http://www.missjenjen.blogspot.com Tue Apr 2 23:16:28 2002

I s'pose we should be just a teeny-weeny bit grateful that the Punters isn't getting refitted as a Country Road outlet, or some such. Then again, do we really need another "funk-eeee" pizza-cafe-bar on Brunny Street? Hasn't that been done to the absolute death yet?

Yes. Well.

Posted by: Graham http:// Wed Apr 3 08:51:41 2002

My mum had a pet lamb called Bimbo.

Posted by: Andrew http:// Tue Apr 9 23:29:35 2002

Bimbo sounds great - that will very probably be the clientele. Anyway, that's the result of gentrifaction - waht can you do about it? resisting capital is damn hard.

Posted by: Nola http:// Thu Aug 29 02:50:35 2002

Sounds like a good idea. Variety is the spice of life and all that. Something for very body, can't wait. Good work Henry.