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While Dermot Perry of Mount Keira was getting ready to tee off on the 6th hole at the beautiful Jamberoo Golf Club, as two people on horseback went past. His friend “Harry commented that in the olden days everyone had a horse and only rich people had cars, but now everyone has a car and only rich people have horses. Maybe too long ago for C8-ers to confirm?”
“Readers can be assured that Vegemite glasses (C8) live on,” says the good Reverend Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “They can still be found in large numbers in church kitchen cupboards and on the shelves of opportunity shops. I have raised them on many occasions in sacramental celebration.”
“At our modest weekender on the South Coast, we too bring out our Vegemite glasses on special occasions,” adds Stewart Martin of Mangerton. “We call them our Bream Beach crystal.”
That other Mangerton denizen, George Manojlovic, clearly has quite a bit of time on his hands: “Whenever I visit my medicine cabinet, I can’t help breaking out in song. Here’s a part of my playlist: ‘I was 21 when I left Gavascon’; ‘When my baby smiles at me, I go to Breo’; ‘Oh my darlin’ Claritin’; ‘It’s now or Nivea’; ‘Vaseline Alley bred’; and, of course, that soothing ointment, ‘Paw paw pitiful me’.”
Graham Johnson of Sutherland has another place name pronunciation (C8) curio: “Lake Cathie is near Port Macquarie, and I believe the locals pronounce it Lake Cat-eye. I’m sure there’s a local member of the C8 coterie who could confirm or deny this?” That would be Mick Miller of Ettalong Beach, who confirms this and notes that it’s located “just south of Wauchope.”
Peter Farquhar of Coffs Harbour knows a thing or two about exploding cans (C8): “While measuring a kitchen, two holes in the recently repaired ceiling were noticed. The owner explained that after arriving home from the pub after work, he put water in the electric frypan with a tin of baked beans and then fell promptly asleep watching the cricket. When asked if the second hole was where it came down, he replied that the next morning he went and bought a new frypan and stopped at the pub on the way home. On arrival, he unpacked the new frypan, added water and another can of baked beans and, once again fell asleep in front of the TV.”
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