Welcome to post-Christmas, and here’s hoping it’s been a couple of days of good cheer for all, but if Santa didn’t make it your way on Monday, June Love of East Gresford suggests you “look for him in Rozelle”.
“My husband Rob was doing some last-minute shopping on Christmas Eve,” says Mary Watson of Balgowlah Heights. “He had to wait patiently at a pedestrian crossing while an arrogant bush turkey strolled leisurely across. Pretty game at this time of year.”
The name game (C8) is long over, but readers keep finding curious monikers via the dental profession. The local driller of choice for Joy Nason of Mona Vale is Dr Chew, while Ian Glendon of Ashmore (Qld) received “excellent treatment” from Dr Fang during his time working in Hong Kong, and Richard Jary of Waitara used to visit Dr Ha and observed that “Despite the name, he still preferred the somewhat painful injection as an anaesthetic rather than using laughing gas.”
“George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, describes the availability of a twopenny hangover (C8) for cheap sleeping,” notes Malcolm Morrison of Deakin (ACT). “Thought someone else would have mentioned it by now. Maybe nobody reads Orwell these days?” Well, you know what they say, Malcolm, “Ignorance is strength”.
“Your tales of malicious spellcheckers (C8) reminds me of the old days when we would use a word processor to write something and then run the whole thing through a separate program,” writes Ian Morris of Strathfield. “My wife’s name is Ivana and our program constantly tried to change her to ‘Inane’. I was caught once but then became incredibly diligent so as to not allow it to be repeated. She has a great sense of humour, but wouldn’t have been amused.”
Granny can’t help thinking that Joe Goozeff of Leura is trying to tell her something: “The Quote Investigator recently researched the origin of the phrase ‘A pun is the lowest form of wit.’ One contribution, from 1912, was: She: ‘A pun is the lowest form of wit.’ He: ‘Therefore the foundation of all humour.’ She: ‘Yes, but it takes a bore to sink it to its proper level.’ I thought you would like to know.”
“I keep seeing headlines about so-and-so, usually some fading celebrity, being ‘unrecognisable’ in recent photographs,” says John McCartney of Mount Coolum, (Qld). “How do they know who it is?”
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