“An article on human composting caught my attention,” offers Graham “the Reaper” Lum of North Rocks. “If human composting becomes legal in NSW, I assume the green bin would be the preferred mode of transport. However, some may think the yellow recycle bin is the way to go.”
“Disney comics (C8) published in Australia in the 1950s and ’60s were printed on quality glossy paper,” says Donald Hawes of Peel. “They also had obvious erasures in the speech bubbles where the American had been changed to Australian English spelling, a wonderful concession to young readers. It’s a pity a few poster and sign writers can’t follow suit, these days.”
Ross Jones of Earlwood writes: “In the early ’60s my aunt worked at Classic Comics and I got to read most issues. As the store name suggests, the ‘comics’ ranged from Robin Hood and Ivanhoe to Wuthering Heights and Black Beauty. They were a bit heavy for most of my peers and the going swap rate was about 10 classic for one Richie Rich. Of course, they all got thrown out just after I did.”
“We swapped comics,” adds Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “Two without covers for one in mint condition. And two in mint condition for one Classics Illustrated.”
“Illegible signatures are happening already,” claims Elizabeth Savage of Hughes (ACT). “I know two people, both of whom can read and write cursive script, whose signatures are illegible scribbles. Maybe their name needs to be printed in block capitals in brackets after the scribble?”
Frank Johnson of Peakhurst notes that “Russell Hill talks about blowing up Airfix models (C8). When my father took us to see Bridge on the River Kwai, the next day I built model bridges out of balsa wood and blew them up with double bungers. Later in life I became a civil engineer and built real bridges but, unfortunately, I never got to blow any up.”
When Tony Sullivan of Islington attended University of NSW (C8), his school friends went elsewhere, “several to one with old sandstone buildings at the front and lots of timber and asbestos-ridden sheds at the back. They would refer to my alma mater as ‘Kenso Tech’. Its bare concrete structures with the imprint of timber form work were painted over to brighten it up, but each time I see a new build with this style I look on it fondly.”
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