“My late friend Doug Bower, chief steward on many Australian container ships and tankers, arrived in San Diego years ago and tied up behind an Australian Navy warship,” writes David Sayers of Gwandalan. “The captain of the warship, seeing the Australian flag on Doug’s ship, hurried on board. He explained that they’d been in the US for 10 months and couldn’t buy Vegemite anywhere. Could Doug spare some? Doug gave him the 3½ boxes he had on board and the thankful captain departed with a rating carrying the booty. He was popular at breakfast the next morning.”
The recent mention of Bewitched (C8) has garnered an observation from Graeme Finn of Campsie: “The opening of Bewitched had animation by Hanna-Barbera, which also made The Flintstones. There was even a guest appearance by Samantha and Darrin in one Flintstones episodes as the new neighbours.” Fred and Wilma would be an improvement on Gladys “Abner, come look at this!” Kravitz.
“I had the pleasure of dining at the Chelsea (C8) only once,” says Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest. “What a mind-boggling trip! My partner and I were in our mid-20s. Most of the clientele, though, were elderly gents celebrating with their ‘nieces’. The menus presented to the ladies bore no prices; the look of shock-horror on one bloke’s face when he opened his copy (with the prices) was ‘priceless’. Everything about the place vibed opulent indulgence. A night to remember.”
Peter Olsen of Hornsby “took two different young ladies to dinner there in the 1970s. The second became my wife after I proposed to her over the phone (Sydney to New Jersey), as she’d gone home for Christmas in ’72. I remember a dessert that was a pineapple scooped out and filled with other fruits. That was years ago and we’re still married.”
“Thanks to Marilyn Irons (C8), I now have the perfect word to describe the way I like to look when leaving the house,” declares Daniel Low of Pymble. “‘Shevelled’ is just the right word.”
Carole Dawes of Randwick feels the curse of the commentator (C8): “With the NRL grand final done and dusted, I thought I’d heard the end of ‘versing’ for another year. No, I forgot the World Cup. On a radio advertisement this morning for the broadcast of the tournament, the first game is apparently New Zealand verse Australia. When will it end?”
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