News Flash: Adelaide possibly the most unoriginal city in Australia.

We could hardly believe what we read this morning on the Adelaide Now website. Although, over on Waymouth Street, they liked to put the emphasis in other places and give it a different title, the story "Cousins Suits Himself" was a harsh indictment of Adelaide's sense of... well pride. 

The thrust of the article had been about Cousins' come back. A heart-warming tale of a guy who's "boyish good looks" just couldn't be kept out of the spotlight. The former bad boy of AFL, it seems, is on his way back to the top via VFL club, Port Melbourne and a handy modelling contract with West Australian designer Pierucci. 

 The Footy Show had caught whiff of this momentous occasion and flew over to Perth especially to interview cousins at the fashion shoot.

Davies delights in telling her readers that Cousins presented in "a perfectly cut blue-grey single-breasted suit, looking handsome and together."

This story would have been fine, totally forgettable, if it had not been for this paragraph:

"For Pierucci, money can't buy this kind of publicity. After The Footy Show interview was broadcast, one Adelaide customer ordered everything Ben was wearing."

WHAT?...

Adelaide's always had its hang ups. While we're known for harbouring an aging population of football-obsessed conservatives and the odd serial killer, one thing we never had was Ben Cousins. Now we've got something much worse - we've got someone who wants to be like Ben Cousins.

I'm going out right now to purchase a woolen sports jacket and whatever else Stephen Hawking was wearing the last time I saw him on the idiot box. At least he's worth imitating.