“My wife and I hadn’t done a full shop since arriving back from interstate a couple of weeks ago,” writes George Zivkovic of Northmead. “On Monday, we went through the supermarket checkout with two separate trolleys, paying separately for each and the respective totals came to $155.32 and $155.35. In the words of Edward Loong, what are the odds?”
John Lees of Castlecrag assures Faye Taylor (C8) that “birds do not poo only on white clothes. Here at the Crag, they poo only on the bed linen!”
“Most pooing birds don’t intend to offend,” claims Meri Will of Baulkham Hills: “It’s just that white is the colour of confidence, hope and new beginnings, and they can get a bit over-excited when visiting these online dating sites provided by humans.”
Graeme Finn of Campsie knows when to get the sheets: “Birds? I learned the hard way not to leave sheets on the line overnight during mulberry time when there were fruit bats around.”
The lack of recognition for the Old Wig in the Seven Hills (C8) Music Bowl (thanks Michael Otter of Rydalmere) has readers reaching for the program as well as tossing up a theory or two. Sue Jones of Bathurst has one: “Perhaps the omission of Johann Sebastian’s name was because he was going to be Bach later?” Jim Dewar of Davistown wonders if “perhaps it was felt that Bach Street sounded too downmarket?”
Sonnie Hopkins of Tascott adds: “While John Macdonald regrets the lack of a Bach Street in Seven Hills, there were multiple deserving Bach composers – C.P.E, W.F, J.C, and J.C.F in addition to J.S. Each street would need to be clearly marked to avoid one ‘Streeting up the wrong Bach’.”
“The US President is trying to do a lot of building. Like an MMA fighting dome, a ballroom, a triumphal arch and even his face on Mount Rushmore,” notes Don Leayr of Albury. “Does he have an erection problem?”
John Constable of Balmain makes a lot of sense when he says: “Robot vacuum cleaners don’t need headlights (C8) to see their way in the dark, but so we don’t trip over them on our own, necessary nocturnal excursions.”
“Perhaps we should take up the French offer of new nuclear submarines now that the US is only offering us second-hand ones,” reflects Lance Dover of Pretty Beach. “The new acronym could be a bit tricky, though.”
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