“Rupert Murdoch’s sports shoes and formal wear to his last wedding, and now the Oval Office, seemingly making a new fashion statement, calls for reasons as to how it could possibly have happened,” writes Janice Creenaune of Austinmer. “His age? His money? His power? These are a few that come to mind. But what other combos could be allowed that we would previously have shunned? Socks and sandals maybe? Double denim? Hawaiian and fishing shirts?”
“There’s a very deceptive sign on the highway near my place,” alleges George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “It reads ‘Red Light Camera’, but it’s actually grey and black and looks decidedly heavy.”
“How Coral Button describes the nurses at the San (C8) hospital having wonderful hair in the veggo days made me jealous,” admits Lisa Clarke of Watsons Bay. “I was a student nurse in the early ’80s at another hospital and my hair looked permanently greasy for three years due to having to wear a nurses cap.”
“When I was younger, so much younger than today, I spent a week in the San,” says Peter Riley of Penrith. “The nursing staff were terrific but when I suggested that the best medicine to make me better quicker would be an intravenous drip of black coffee (no sugar) I was very politely told, with a grin, that Hornsby hospital was just up the road!”
Tim Wheeler of Avoca Beach says that if Dorothy Gliksman (C8) “is unable to find a ‘I’m silently correcting your grammar.’ badge, I would console her with a pat on the back, saying, ‘There, their, they’re’.”
Two readers, Stephen Knox of Chatswood and Jim Dewar of Davistown think that the original recipient of said badge, Rosemary Seam, should wear it “with pride”, with Jim adding: “Pedantry is next to godliness.”
Judith Allison of Bexley used to favour a ‘Eschew Obscurantism’ badge: “Definitely a good conversation starter in corporate meetings.”
According to Neil Nicoll of Waverton, “Donald Trump’s recent thought bubble to turn the Gaza Strip into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’, mirrors a comedic idea proposed back in 1957 by renegade ad-man and radio comedian Stan Freberg. He wrote and performed a sketch in which the Gaza Strip was turned into a Las Vegas style resort complete with casinos, strippers, cabaret and water-skiing. There was even a theme song with the refrain ‘Everyone’s doing that Ga-Ga Gaza Strip’. How prescient was that?”
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