Rob Baxter’s (C8) canine feculence concerns (C8), reminded Michael Payne of West Pymble of “a petite friend of mine who was the victim of a bag snatch while walking her dog. She had trouble containing herself as her old handbag was used to contain her doggie do.”
“Carrying a full poo bag is a badge of honour,” asserts Robert Hosking of Paddington. “It says: ‘I did not leave that poo on the pavement. That was some other irresponsible person. I am a responsible dog owner!’ And a call-out to Woollahra Council for providing not only plenty of bins, but poo bag dispensers on those bins.”
Meanwhile, we await plaudits from Andrew Taubman of Queens Park for not calling it “Poop”.
“An ABC TV newsreader blithely reported that the ‘Sydney Surf Club’ had torpedoed the proposed Rosehill Racecourse sale,” notes Jim Dewar of Davistown. “Must’ve been a board decision then ...”
“Cracker night (C8) was Empire Day, and we had half-day off school to build the bonfire and sort out our crackers; tom thumbs, double bungers, sparklers, catherine wheels and skyrockets,” writes Judy Jones of Thornleigh. “One particular cracker night, one of the lads had the bright idea of putting a smouldering log in the tray of his ute, and we piled in with it. We drove the neighbourhood, lighting and throwing penny bungers over the side. We put the chooks off laying and the cows gave no milk for a few days. The innocence of childhood!”
For letter box annihilation, Michael Johnston of Corlette thinks bigger is better: “Thunders were much more effective than tuppenny bungers when attempting to destroy a letter box on cracker night …….. so I’m told.”
“My father was a GP, and he typically had a red lamp on the wall outside his surgery,” says Libby Cameron of Newport. “The night before cracker night, he would remove the costly panel of red glass on which his name was inscribed – he knew too well the temptation for local youngsters to pop a double bunger into the lamp. I’m delighted to say the lovely lamp is still standing as a decoration in our daughter’s garden.”
Peter Riley of Penrith sees an election strategy in all this: “Ever since they tried to conscript me into the Vietnam War, voting Liberal has been verboten, but if Sussie and her new libs promise to reinstate cracker night, then I’m in!”
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