“What a stroke of genius to organise Daleks to carry the country names at the Milano 2026 opening ceremony,” lauds Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven. “As long as their reward is not to exterminate us all! A great day for Whovians.”
Jane Howland of Cammeray also took in the opening ceremony: “Channel 9 pronounced it correctly as ‘ser.ɪ.mə.ni’, but the ABC said ‘Sarah Moaney’. Standards ABC, standards.” Granny notes that the ever-observant Donald Hawes of Peel refers to her as “the ever-elusive Sarah Moaney.”
Keeping things Winter Olympicesque while addressing another discussion, Bob Cameron of Coffs Harbour thinks “perhaps they should call the fourth Snowy boring machine (C8) the Stephen Bradbury and hope for the best?”
Meanwhile, Jeff McNamara of Ulverstone (Tas) digs “Uphill Battle” and/or “Over-run”.
John Ure of Mount Hutton still has the salad servers awarded for winning the Bradman Trophy (for the worst score) at a charity golf day in 1968. “Happy to contribute them to the presidential cause (C8). In my defence, being new to golf, I thought the highest score won. Subsequent performances show that I’ve adhered to that belief.”
“We have a left-handed son and a right-handed daughter,” advises Paul Keir of Strathfield. “The left-hander is politically right wing and the right-hander is a lefty. Each is amazed that someone so reasonable and otherwise intelligent could be so wrong. Makes for interesting BBQs.”
The Herald’s recent item on regional swimming pools, specifically the Central West town of Gulargambone (Gular to the locals), got the attention of former denizen Wendy Hyman of Bathurst: “How fortunate are ‘Gular’s’ citizens these days to have their own pool. As kids there in the early ’50s, we had to keep cool by queueing up to put our heads under the school’s water tank tap!”
Suzie Ferrie, a dietitian at RPA Hospital, sympathises with Maureen Donlan’s complaint about the lack of toast at Wagga Base (C8), but adds that “hospital toast isn’t worth having after it is toasted in the hospital kitchen, then steams itself into a cold and flabby state over the time it would take for breakfast to be plated and transported to the wards for delivery to all 325 patients at Wagga. Hence, most NSW hospitals no longer do this.”
“I was trying to come up with something funny to compete with Warren Finnan’s Haberfield day (C8),” admits David Linfoot of Castle Hill. “I gave up because it was too much Leichhardt work.”
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