Readers currently taking in the various football finals will no doubt recall last year’s thread on curiously named sporting teams. Two such outfits mentioned were the Central Newcastle Butcher Boys and the Maitland Pumpkin Pickers. Well, thanks to the rugby league gods, these two teams will clash in the NEWRL grand final at McDonald Jones Stadium on Sunday. Cameron Park rugby league (and heavy metal) authority Jonathan Lumley points out that the Butcher Boys are captained by local educator and “great bloke” Cameron Anderson, brother of Melbourne Storm discovery, Grant.
Shifting codes, Doug Johnson of Bellevue Hill reckons “the old rugby player from Boorowa (C8) should be told that there are no rules in rugby. They are the laws of rugby.” Yes, m’lud.
“I thought rugby might be called ‘the game they play in heaven’ because each team has two wings,” writes Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “Then I remembered they also have a hooker.”
“I’ve always wondered why being a superhero means having to wear a strange uniform,” considers Don Leayr of Albury. “And, if Superman is all-powerful, why does he need a secret identity? And, don’t Batman, Robin and Superman find those capes really annoying? And now that phone booths are becoming scarce, how will Superman cope?”
Column 8 chief cashier, Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook, notes that tomorrow will mark 200 years since the first Act was passed by the newly minted Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales. The Currency Act was ‘to make Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange payable in Spanish Dollars as if such Notes and Bills had been drawn payable in Sterling Money of the Realm’.”
Remind Granny never to sit in front of Brian Murphy of Eaglehawk at the cinema: “The scary velociraptor (C8) in the movie Jurassic Park was, in reality, the dinosaur Deinonychus, which would grow up to 3.4 metres and had rather fearsome claws. The velociraptor was actually its smaller and slightly less scary relative. The movie creators preferred to use the name velociraptor for the fearsome creature in the movie for dramatic effect. Even though they knew it was not necessarily taxonomically correct.”
Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne has often speculated “why lawyers (C8) can produce a multipage document, shrouded in a fog of language and then have the cheek to call it ‘a brief’!”
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