“Sorry, Mary Carde, but I think your ‘lawn prawns’ (C8) are isopods (which have seven pairs of legs) and are a different classification order of Crustacea than prawns, (decapods, which have ten pairs of legs),” says fellow Queenslander, John Glaister of Buderim. “They could also be amphipods. Gee whizz, as a former crustacean biologist, pointing this out has made all those years of tagging prawns worthwhile!”
Andrew Cohen of Glebe senses an opportunity: “Yummy! Lawn prawn salad, green Thai curry lawn prawns, lawn prawn cocktails, or perhaps just throw some on the barbie?”
“I just read David Baird’s item about uptick and downtick (C8),” says Tim Crawshaw of Kenthurst. “It reminded me of the rarely heard expression ‘tickety-boo’. Maybe as people experience a downtick due to cost of living pressures and Trumpian wars, we can have an uptick in expressions like ‘tickety-boo’ to bring a smile to people’s faces?”
Peter Miniutti of Ashbury notes that “Charles Davies-Scourfield flags the over-abundance of doublebarrelled names in the Greens (C8), but this is run-of-the-mill and plain-ordinary compared to the New Zealand Warriors who boast an eight-fold of such-like in their NRL squad.”
And while David Prest of Thrumster points out that “in the armed services, anyone with a hyphen in their name is known as ‘two dads’,” Peter Thornton of Killara thinks “the solution for Mr Shoebridge is a hyphen as his name is already two words. Shoebridge = Shoe-Bridge!”
On the eve of the midterms, Jim Dewar of Davistown provides us with the poetry of politics.
In stateside bars and boozers,
They talk of White House losers,
Let’s hope they’re right
And Tuesday night,
Sing “Donald, where’s yer troosers?”
Natasha Lee of Alexandria writes: “Following many C8 memories of using slide-rules (C8), I learned from the Sun-Herald quiz that in the US, a slide-rule is known as slipstick.”
“While I sympathise with the diminishing Iced VoVos, toilet rolls, while retaining their inner core size, use some sort of optical illusion that looks the same but runs out sooner,” reckons Marjie Williamson of Blaxland.
“The shrinkflation trick of reducing contents whilst maintaining packaging size and price has also been applied to that other Aussie delicacy: the Tim Tam,” adds Dave Horsfall of North Gosford. “I wonder what other bikkies have been treated thus? It would be difficult to do that with Milk Arrowroots, due to them having no internal spacers, but who knows?”
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