The critics are calling it a masterpiece; among them, Rob Baxter of Naremburn: “If there’s a limericist laureate award, it should definitely go to Jim Dewar for his latest masterpiece (Donald, where’s yer troosers, C8). If there isn’t, then at least a bottle of Scotch.”
Don Bain of Port Macquarie even decided on a Dewaresque homage.
Our Jim Dewar
Now I ask you is he any good?
Our Jim Dewar
As a poet he can sure lay on the wood
For when he begins to rhyme
He hits sixes every time
And there isn’t anything he cannot do
Our Jim Dewar
Column8 lifts its lid to you!
“The first 10 songs inducted into Australia’s inaugural National Songbook, announced by the National Film and Sound Archive, include Waltzing Matilda, Friday On My Mind, I Am Woman, Beds Are Burning, My Island Home and Treaty,” notes George Zivkovic of Northmead. “How did AC/DC, INXS, Cold Chisel, John Farnham and Kylie miss the criteria cut, not to mention Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face?”
“Top marks to the driver of ERV xxx who put their P-plate next to the rego plate!” offers David Gordon of Cranebrook.
Lisa Clarke of Watsons Bay has news for Kathy Earls (C8): “I was supervising students doing the French Continuers exam at the time of the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday and can report there was no listening to the ‘course de chevaux’.”
“This is a call-out to my friend Judy Ryan, who reads Column 8 in a café in Leichhardt every weekday,” declares Peter Merrotsy of Port Kennedy (WA). “She says that a packet of Tim Tams (C8) satisfies a woman eleven times in a night.”
“Geoff Goodfellow (C8) is selling himself short,” reckons Jack Dikian of Mosman. “All his vocabulary of escalation examples falls straight out of the Reserve Bank’s Board meeting minutes. The discussion included interest rates being hiked, economic forecasts raised, inflation expectations elevated, inflationary pressures heightened, the money supply expanded, household debt enlarged, and geopolitical risks escalated.” Here’s hoping readers don’t lose interest.
“It was really amusing to watch the subtitler try to make sense of the commentary by Planet America’s John Barron during the ABC coverage of the US midterm elections,” thinks Merilyn McClung of Forestville. “Couldn’t get its fingers around ‘shellacking’ and a few other very Aussie descriptors.”
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