The sky’s the limit for Peter Riley of Penrith: “NSW Health’s COVID rules state that ‘people over the age of 12 must wear a face mask on an aircraft when the aircraft is flying above NSW’. Airliners fly at a height of about 10km and the International Space Station, which occasionally passes over Sydney, is about 400km up. Just how high do you have to go to no longer be subject to NSW law? Where does NSW end?”
“Suggestions for the harsh treatment of cut flowers (C8) brought to mind a defence I penned for stink bugs some time back and was about to send, when I realised I had mistakenly brought up the address of a local tradesman, also commencing with a capital C,” recalls Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “I still like to picture the tradie’s bemusement, had he received an eight-line stanza from a client, commencing ‘We are little stink bugs, hear us shout ...’!” Rest assured, he’d still come up with a competitive quote.
This tip from Tricia McMullen of Cammeray is a cert: “Halfway through day one of being allowed out and I have already changed the lock screen on my phone to show my vaccination certificate.”
Some readers are confused as to the source of the Wi-Fi crockpot (C8) spotted by Michael Morton-Evans, among them one Maureen Edwards of Caringbah: “Please, please put us out of our misery. What company has a name that incorporates the names of a rabbit and a golfer? Michael is tougher than David Astle!” Perhaps Elwood P. Dowd can assist?
It’s not always a crock: “I recently bought a pair of sports shoes online only to find that they came with a Bluetooth connection to an app and an encouraging young female voice to provide all kinds of useful and interesting information about my running style. I’m still not sure whether she lives in the shoes or my phone, but I’m very grateful, nonetheless,” says Robin Humphrey of Springwood.
Philip Thorniley of Berry thinks, “PR firm Cornerstone’s announcement that their two new clients are Imperial Tobacco and CancerAid looks like an attempt to balance the books. Perhaps their next targets are Adani and Greenpeace?”
“Sid James’ (C8) face was more like a topographic map than a road map,” reckons Col Burns of Lugarno. “Some of his furrows were so long they were rumoured to carry on up the Khyber.”
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