Outwardly we try to maintain a veneer of apparent refinement and class, but deep down hidden away there is a tiny part in all of us that loves it.

A tiny piece of our personalities that suddenly grows legs, the moment we happen upon a strange gigantic manmade monument, and we are overwhelmed with a desire to line up our family for a photograph in front of it.

Big things like our Merino, the Robinson Potato and the Big Banana all have their place in Australiana travel folk law, but I wonder if they have passed their used by date?

I can remember road tripping with my parents and being amazed by these roadside oddities.

I even visited the Big Bull at Wauchope on my honeymoon.

Yes I know. Who needs Paris when you’ve got the Big Bull.

I’m now doing the same with my own kids, however they are less than impressed.

I hate to say it, but it takes a lot more to dazzle kids these days than a giant fibreglass fruit that has fallen into disrepair.

Maybe I’m getting too old and jaded but the big things that I’ve seen in recent years are looking pretty dodgy, although it is possible they always did and my child’s eye just couldn't tell.

Our Big Merino is an exception, Rambo is always looking good, particularly his rear end which (if you Google it) is the most photographed part of him.

Hey, it gets people out of their cars in Goulburn though. 

Most big things around the country are privately owned and cost a fortune to maintain, and while having one helps to grab passing tourist trade, its upkeep may not be a priority when a town is spending money.

Sadly the Big Bull was knocked down in 2007 as the owners couldn’t keep up, the big things are slowly disappearing, however …

Goulburn may soon be adding another Big Thing to the Australian roadside oddity map, the big beer bottle.

My initial reaction to the big beer proposal was not in its favour, but I did think that the idea people would associate Goulburn of as being a town of drunks a bit of a stretch.

Are we over thinking it and the nanny state of mind is kicking in once again?

The reality is it will most likely be a big drawcard, and at the time of writing 80.2 per cent of respondents to an online poll conducted by the Goulburn Post, thinks so too.

Tacky and kitsch it will most likely be, but I think we know it will attract people and maybe create a few jobs.

I can’t imagine a giant beer bottle would damage the perception people already have of Goulburn, but it may improve their ideas about our ability to support industry here.

On one hand it is a ghastly idea but on the other it makes good marketing sense.

What do you think?