source : the age
“If One Nation wins government, and we become a monoculture, can we at least hold a referendum to decide which culture we adopt?” asks John Perry of Newtown. Granny is voting for the thermophilic variety, as they ferment at higher temperatures.
“Frank Webb (C8) shouldn’t feel devastated by missing the Stones concert,” says Paul Keys of Clouds Creek. “If it was the one held at Randwick Racecourse, he wouldn’t have seen them unless he was at the very front, and when the wind blew, as it frequently did, he wouldn’t have heard them.”
“All jokes aside, those Pink Ladies under investigation at ICAC (C8) give the apple variety a bad name,” reckons Edward Loong of Milsons Point.
Regarding the comic-book caper (C8), David Corry of Como West says it was the ads that got his attention: “Pictures of clean-cut young men urging enrolment at some obscure US military academy and the many gadgets from Weirdos Novelty Store. My favourites were the X-Ray Specs, plastic vomit and whoopee cushion. My sisters reminded me there was no need for me to acquire the cushion … for obvious reasons.”
Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven isn’t sure whether his comics “were chucked out by my mother after I left home, or if they were devoured in the great cricket plague that afflicted the Cowra district in the late 1960s”.
“Happily, there are some who don’t throw things out,” says Barry Lamb of Eastwood. “As a collector of memorabilia of Australian childhood, I was thrilled to recently be offered both volumes of Cole’s Funny Picture Book that my friend had kept since childhood.”
While we’re talking lost (and found) publications, Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook needs an assist: “Does anyone have any copies of Chuckler’s Weekly or the Commonwealth Trades Alphabet?”
“Hooray to the University of NSW on securing the No. 1 ranking in Australia and 19th in the world in the World University Rankings,” declares Leonie Atkinson of Hazelbrook. “I attended in the 1970s, when it was derisively referred as ‘Kenso Kinder’, and have just dusted off my well-earned degree. No sandstone, but loads of energy and wonderful academic staff who really nurtured their students.”
Genevieve Frederiksen of Roseville puts a final stamp on proceedings: “Just wondering if, in the future, the alleged demise of cursive (C8) will abrogate the need to formally sign documents, since no one will have a signature any more?”
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