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Examples
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A telegraph pole, designed by J.C. Stobie in 1924, made from two steel rails with concrete between them to resist white ants is called a stobie pole in Adelaide.
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It's election season in South Australia, and the stobie poles are adorned with candidates 'advertising paraphernalia.
In a strange land Deborah 2010
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An elderly man has died when the car he was driving crashed into a stobie pole in Adelaide's southern suburbs.
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Candidates 'posters are up on all the stobie poles, including some mightily offensive ones from the local anti-choice crowd, and bumf is starting to pour through my letter box, but no one seems to be talking about the election.
Larvatus Prodeo Deborah 2010
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Police said he crashed into a stobie pole on Maxwell Tce, Glenelg East, Friday about 6. 30pm and failed to stop.
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Man dies in crash at Seaton A MAN died when the white station wagon he was driving hit a bus and then a stobie pole at Seaton on Thursday night.
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It crashed into a stobie pole on the other side of the road.
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An 18-year-old Torrensville man died last night when the car he was in hit a stobie pole on Tapleys Hill Road at Fulham Gardens.
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Traditional ones like quokka get an airing, but the quokka is a rare animal now, found only on a few offshore islands in Western Australia, and so the word must be much less often used than an everyday Adelaide word like stobie pole (` utility pole '), for instance.
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