“In My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle sings a song called Just You Wait,” writes David Bennett of Woollahra. In it, the King says: ‘Next Week on the 20th of May, I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day.’ Does anyone actually celebrate Liza Doolittle Day on May 20? Should we?” Anne and Michael Egan of Killarney Heights sure do. They wrote to say “Happy Liza Doolittle Day to all Herald readers!” a matter of minutes after David’s missive arrived.
“Sadly, the incident where a boy was hit in the chest by a drone while riding his bike (C8) suggests that it is only a matter of time before we have our first reported death by droning,” thinks Neil Maclean of Bowral.
“We see many reports of innocent victims and innocent bystanders,” notes Sue Ward of Collaroy. “Are there ever any guilty ones?”
The chill factor continues (C8). Tony DeGiovanni of Bawley Point recalls: “In 1994, while working in Colorado and having never before lived in snow, I found the chore of cleaning the windscreen of my Pontiac Bonneville a burning experience. I had no cleaning tools and used bare hands! Then, while boiling the jug for a cup of tea before my commute, I thought: ‘Let the boiling water do the work.’ Yes, I had no scientific common sense. While it melted the ice and snow, it also split the windscreen diagonally from corner to corner. I drove that car for a year and sold it before leaving to return home, crack and all.”
“With all the talk of Minnesotan winters and block heaters, I’m reminded of the tornado ‘shelters’ in Southern Minnesota which, in the complex I lived in, were totally inadequate and ignored by the locals,” writes Viv Mackenzie of Port Hacking. “We trusting Aussies however, scampered into ours at the first sirens’ wail.”
“Using the same logic that saw Richard Hale (C8) compare gravy and red wine jus, up at Thredbo, the difference between the ranges and the alps is about $1000 a night,” reckons Michael Sinclair of Melbourne (Vic).
“I don’t understand the preference of bus over train for a mouse (C8),” laments Heather Lindsay of Woonona.
Would you Adam and Eve it? Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield asks: “Does anyone under 60 understand rhyming slang? I tested this in my workplace yesterday and got blank looks from the under-50s. I might as well have been speaking Arabic.”
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