Watching Sunday’s rugby league decider had a symphonic effect on Don Bain of Port Macquarie: “Panthers’ supporters, altogether now, in the key of C, ‘I can see Cleary now, the reign is born …’” Very nice, Don. Oh, and the Port Macquarie Sharks called; they’re wondering when they can expect their song.
Good Lord! None of us expected this response to the superhero discourse (C8): “The proper use of punctuation has denied Column 8 the privilege of receiving a missive from Trevor, Lord of the Ponds,” laments Allen Dodd of Kirribilli. “I had to read the item twice,” adds Caron Pearce of Miranda. “But Lord of the Ponds sounds like a great superhero to me.”
“Is Trevor really the Lord of the Ponds?” asks Richard French of McCullys Gap. “Is this a section of the King’s birthday honours list that I missed?”
Maurice Collins of Wollongbar and Ted Dixon of North Wollongong reckon that the humble Bankcard (C8) really came into its own in the winter months: “The best scrapers for removing frost from windscreens,” informs Maurice.
Nothing particularly revolutionary has come of Antoinette Farrow’s search for a more efficient way of introducing the kids’ in-laws (C8). Predictably, there were a couple of calls suggesting she call them “the outlaws” (thanks very much, Daniel Low of Pymble and Jacky McCarroll of Shoalhaven Heads). Perhaps the most curious approach came from John Ayre of Croydon, who thought AI would know who “My daughter’s mother-in-law” was: “Copilot says the answer is Co-MIL; even my youngest didn’t know that!”
Other suggestions are “Mumil and Dadil” from Andrew Brown of Bowling Alley Point and “Oma and Opa” from Gwen Fergus of Barrack Heights, who adds: “Luckily, our sons’ in-laws are German.”
Jim Pollitt of Wahroonga concurs with Seppo Ranki on the shortcomings of the Datsun 180B but was saved during the test drive when “the muffler fell off.” Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield remembers his wife getting around in a Datsun 120Y in the ’80s and adds that it was known as the 120WHY?
“There is absolutely no truth in the theory that rust and oil leaks were factory options.”
“The hour I gained with daylight saving (C8) I lost in setting the correct time on my robotic vacuum cleaner,” writes Jack Dikian of Mosman. “But I told it I’d be taking a broom to it if I don’t get that hour back next April.”
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