“Further to Andrew Brown’s memory of Dr Poo (C8), I distinctly recall an episode when the doctor and his sidekick Dana discovered Bob Dylan trapped in a box,” says David Corry of Como West. “A muffled voice from inside the box yelled out, ‘There must be some kind of way out of here’, to which the doctor replied, ‘don’t worry Bob, any day now, any way now, you shall be released’.”
Interesting that Anne Kirman should mention Burra, South Australia (C8) as Janice Creenaune of Austinmer was recently there, having visited the Painted Desert and travelling the Oodnadatta Track. “Burra, as one of the ‘Little Cornwalls’ of South Australia, is a small town with a big Cornish heart. The dugouts indeed provided shelter, (Chris Minns wishes it was so ‘easy’) with whitewashed walls and homely trinkets, it was just like ‘home’. The engine houses from the copper mines are standing firm and strong. Poldark would be so proud.”
Phil Haberland of Claremont (WA) is in no rush to die: “Is it now safe to dust off our copies of The Satanic Verses and put them fearlessly back on our bookshelves, front and centre?”
“All this helping critters across roads (C8) is just soft,” reckons Brisbane tough guy John Elder. “On our honeymoon in Crete many years ago, a taxi was taking Alison and me from Heraklion to Plakias. In the pitch-black night on the mountain road, the driver suddenly swerved his old Mercedes and then braked. He got out and then put something in the boot beside our cases. Seeing our wide eyes, he just smiled and said ‘fresh mountain hare, delicious’, and on we drove. I kid you not.”
There’s something a little too killjoyesque about George Zivkovic of Northmead’s lateral thinking: “Who can forget watching Gilligan’s Island on TV, pushing aside logic due to its fictional nature and plot inconsistencies? The show depicts the S.S. Minnow, a small charter boat, being caught in a storm during a ‘three-hour tour’ and ending up on a deserted island hundreds of miles away. However, the boat, a 1964 Wheeler Playmate, had a top speed of about 12 knots. This means it couldn’t have travelled more than 42 miles in three hours.”
“Perhaps the marketing gurus (C8) aren’t responsible for the name change from doonas to comforters,” offers Col Burns of Lugarno. “Bryan O’Keefe should be careful making blanket statements like that.”
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