Jane Waddy of Boronia Park thinks “C8-ers should be wary when asking anyone to name (C8) a train, tunnel or anything. I still wave to Ferry McFerryface whenever I see her, and I am still cross that her name was forcibly changed to May Gibbs.
“Was Bill Posters (C8) actually prosecuted?” asks Randi Svensen of Wyong. “I heard he was framed.”
“Lenette Allen’s praise for the Sheehan House maternity unit (C8) brought back many wonderful memories from the 1980s,” writes Jennifer O’Brien of Bogangar. “Not the toast or the wonderful staff exactly, but from watching Live Aid in the TV lounge. We collected and donated all the way from there!”
On the question posed by Steve Hulbert regarding the most expensive toast, Andrew Cohen of Glebe reckons “the most expensive toast seemed like a freebie when I first stayed for breakfast with my highly intelligent ex-wife”.
“The most expensive toast isn’t even edible,” asserts Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield. “It is drunk at weddings to honour the newlyweds. Dom Pérignon, paid for by their parents, perhaps?”
“I agree with Lesley Green (C8). Just the other day I was singing ‘One day, you’re gunna get caught …’ from the Holeproof Underdaks commercial, and regularly hum that I’m ‘a happy little Vegemite’,” says Dominic Rice of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where neither jingle would make much sense.
Fellow expat Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA adds: “For me, the Louie the Fly Mortein ad was not only the most memorable jingle, but also iconically Australian.”
And ex-Rose Bayer Peter B. Buckley of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA says his American wife “still grimaces when I break out into old Australian advertising jingles, especially, ‘You get much more with a roller door …’.”
“The arrival of the latest adaptation of Wuthering Heights brought to mind a withering review of a 1978 BBC production,” says Geoff Gilligan of Coogee. “Writing for The Observer, Clive James began with, ‘Wuthering Heights is the blithering pits’. Good one, Kogarah boy. I wonder what he would make of this version.”
Gary Lane of Milperra comments on a different form of slam poetry: “Obviously Carole Dawes (C8) got it wrong. When NRL teams are ‘versing’ each other, they stand and quote poetry (or the Bible) to each other.” Which leads us to Daniel Low of Pymble, who declares that “well played football of any code is poetry in motion”.
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