“Dr Karl Kruszelnicki’s program on the manufacture of toilet tissue and how they imprint the image of leaves on each sheet got me thinking they should start a product with the image of Putin and his stool pigeon,” reckons Charles Haran of Noosa Heads (Qld). “Using it would certainly give me some soothing relief from wars and tariffs.”
“Thank you, John Lees (C8), and others who have reported their American experiences,” writes Richard Stewart of Pearl Beach. “Mine regards a sign I noticed outside a local restaurant/bar which declared ‘Americans Must be Accompanied by an Adult’.”
Predictably, Eric Scott’s car parking campaign (C8) in favour of “drive in, back out” has met with variance. For Janice Creenaune of Austinmer, an unpleasant tradie encounter left her determined that “front out offers better viewing and greater safety.” And Brian Kidd of Mount Waverley (Vic) was quick to remind all that statistics show that “the most common minor accident, by a large margin, is reversing out of shopping centre carparks.” There is however one example in the affirmative from Greg Adelt who says that in his home town of Dubbo “rear-to-kerb parking was changed to front-end parking which made the footpaths much more pleasant for outdoor dining and for me when busking in a uke band.”
This one from Jack Dikian of Mosman could be worth a bit of a wager: “I’m calling it. Why wait until the ‘Word of the Year’ is announced near the end of the year? It’s ‘tariffs’.”
If anyone thinks Allan Gibson’s historic beach rescue item (C8) was simply a flight of fancy, another reader can confirm it, and, with a reputable source: “Charles Kingsford Smith was most certainly rescued at Bondi Beach on January 2, 1907 by the surf reel devised by my great-grandfather, John Bond who is credited with inventing the surf reel in Australia and starting the first surf lifesaving clubs at Bronte and then Bondi in the early 1900s,” informs Lawrie Yeomans of Oatley. “He would also have certainly been on Bondi Beach on Black Sunday as he was every Sunday as a member of Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club.”
“I was talking to a neighbour about the Sail Port Stephens Yacht Race,” says Judy Archer of Nelson Bay. “He said that the weather was bad because the winds were eight degrees and the temperature was 20 knots. Glad I wasn’t crewing on his boat.”
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