“It’s been reported that the Berrima jail is coming on the market,” notes Michael Bellemore of Croydon. “I’m thinking of buying it. My wife loves the Southern Highlands and heritage buildings. Also, it would be perfect for the grandchildren to sleep over. Ghosts are alleged to be on-site to entertain them and dungeons are available should they misbehave.”
We really are trying to put an end to the Lois Lane (C8) discussion, but Jon Sloan of North Narooma “can’t let this pass. In Tumbarumba, Lois Lane is off Kent Street. How good is that?” Just super, however: “Not all Lois Lanes relate to supermen,” declares Neil Andrews of Melbourne. “Lois Lane in North Adelaide is named for the superhero Lois O’Donoghue, AC, CBE, DSG.”
This offering from Jude Alcorn of Mullumbimby is similarly hard to beat: “My school classmate Stephen St John lived on St John’s Avenue in St Johns Wood (alas, the suburb has changed to Ashgrove).”
“Curious if Alan Smith (C8) also had to provide his bank details for the ‘COVID-19 Risk Calculator’ because then he really would have something to be scared about,” reckons Roderick van Gelder of Hunters Hill. “Probably at a 999,999 in a million chance.”
“Naming eyesores (or nosesores) after people? (C8) Spare a thought for the affable Max Factor of Glebe, who copped the Max Factor Effluent Cascade,” says Garrett Naumann of Cammeray.
Other esteemed locals copped the waste treatment as well, according to Bruce Moxon of Toongabbie: “While Lin Sinton has a good idea, I’m wondering how this would affect my dear departed uncle Alf Mason, who was honoured with a sewage pumping station being named after him in Narrabri. Obviously, it won’t affect Alf, as he’s left us, but his memory could be sullied. Or is it that getting rid of the waste is the point here?”
“Has anyone ever succeeded in breaking one of those solid firelighter blocks into the claimed 24 equal pieces?” asks David Peach of Armidale.
Former shipmate Mike Fogarty of Weston (ACT) asks whether William Roberts (C8) was the son of Lieutenant-Commander “WOC” Roberts, DSC, RAN? “If so, I recall I went to the family farm at Wellington circa 1969 and ate rabbit stew.”
“Seeing the prickly seed pods from liquidambar trees on the ground, I wondered why they looked familiar, then realised they resemble the coronavirus symbol,” says Joan Brown of Orange.
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