“I’m speechless,” declares Edward Loong of Milsons Point. “Once in a blue moon, I have a win – usually peanuts – but in Thursday night’s Powerball, I won $161.95. But wait, there’s more. The same night, I had another win – the same amount! Initially, I thought it was a duplication, but it was a separate win. What are the odds? I oughta buy myself a lottery ticket – or two!”
Clearly, the world in which we live is making John Brown of North Sydney overly suspicious: “While travelling around the US we surmised that a red flag on a mailbox (C8) meant ‘Beware, Republican Nearby’.”
Ron Montague of Enfield reckons “the red flag on a US postbox is a bit flash. I grew up on a dairy farm up Bucca Wauka way, and when we had something for our mailman to pick up, we’d put it in our old milk can letter box with a branch poking out to let him know there was something for him.”
Speaking of mail, James Butchart of Lilyfield writes: “For reasons that escape me, my daughter asked If I had a ‘post sticker’, I said, ‘a what?’ and she said ‘a post sticker’, and I thought a bit longer, and then I said ‘oh … a stamp?’ and she said ‘yeah, one of those’.”
Town planning can be murder. While Jeff McNamara makes an exclusive (yet debatable) claim for Murdering Gully Road (C8), other readers have their own homicidal thoroughfares. John McCartney of Mount Coolum (Qld) says: “While Tasmania may have a Murdering Gully Road, Queensland (Sunshine Coast) has a Murdering Creek Road. Over the years there have been calls to change the name.” Dave Williams of Port Macquarie agrees and adds, “Rough place, Queensland.”
“Maybe not a Murdering Gully Road, but Murdering Creek shadows the Six Foot Track, from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves, for quite some distance,” claims Frank McGrath of Bulli. “By the time I reached it, though, exhaustion had overcome any possible sinister vibes.”
“It is intriguing that Australia has so many ‘Gentle Annie Roads’. Who or what was Gentle Annie?” ponders Tricia Wallace of Bodalla. “And what is a Delusion Road, such as the ‘Isla Delusion Road’ in Central Queensland?”
Ian Sanderson of Salamander Bay notes that “Your recent items about dubious artwork (C8) demonstrate the accuracy of Marshall McLuhan’s definition – ‘Art is anything you can get away with’.”
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