Nola Tucker of Kiama has found a good reason to up the calcium intake: “Our local Woollies shopping trolleys are made from milk bottles. 76 for a small one and 152 for a large one. Nice to know.”
“I can’t help Jennifer Stephenson (C8) with the fly musings,” says Meg Vella of Wentworth Falls. “But the natural world is often remarkable. I grew up on a grazing property in northern NSW. At lambing time someone would occasionally check the paddock. Crows were always hanging around hoping for a snack – a ewe down or a vulnerable lamb. If you were empty-handed or just carrying a stick, they’d fly into the trees and wait, but if you had a gun, they’d leave for good.”
Suellen Fulton of North Parramatta poses “a question to the Column 8 universe. I have a vague memory that swimmer Dawn Fraser’s 1965 wedding was broadcast on TV. This memory comes from going to pick up my elderly grandmother for a family event and that she refused to leave the house until she saw one of her favourite sportspersons walk down the aisle. Can any of your avid readers confirm the wedding was televised, or maybe it was just filmed for a news item? Possibly, this is a childhood dream, but one I would like to have confirmed or denied.”
“In last Thursday’s Column, Chris Roylance (C8) referred to the man from Mangerton as ‘gorgeous George’,” notes Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “Still wrestling with that.”
Paul Taylor of Winston Hills continues: “As usual, various punters have had no compunction putting puns to paper to punish Column 8’s peerlessly prolific pundit, the Mangerton man, for daring to get in print yet again. Any extended absence of George from C8 raises the puny hopes of those who wish to inherit the Manojlovic mantle. Sadly, their dreams are expunged as once more George is published and, like Rapunzel, he has let down his heirs.”
Is this a gee-up? “Andrew Cohen, left out the most important feature of a thoroughbred car (C8),” claims John Ayre of Croydon. “You must have an in-law that is a mechanic!”
On the back of Evan Bailey’s Vulgaria (C8), Mark Morgan of Palmwoods (Qld) recalls the time he was watching a rugby game involving a Barbarians team with friends. “We managed to convince a not-so-sharp member of the group that the Barbarians were representing Barbaria.”
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