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Col Burns of Lugarno is milking it for all it’s worth: “I now eagerly await news of RFK decrying big pharma’s shameless promotion of unneeded anaesthetics and antibiotics by citing Andrew Cohen’s C8 clinical trial on the medicinal benefits of Carnation milk (C8) in the treatment of lacerations.”
“So, Andrew’s dead tongue was brought back to life by drinking copious amounts of evaporated milk,” observes Kevin Hunt of Kenthurst. “Sounds like reincarnation.”
“When I was in year 3, a dentist accidentally drilled out a piece of my tongue and the doctor prescribed penicillin chewing gum,” recalls Rosemary Towers of Kianga. “This was the only time, with such a sense of victory, that I could reply (echoed by the whole class) to Mother Superior’s ‘Are you chewing gum, girl?’ with ‘Yes Mother, the doctor said I could!’”
Pipping Allan Gibson by a fair stretch, Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld) writes: “A century before Peanuts (C8) appeared, this fine publication was almost 30 years old when the University of Sydney, the first university in Australia, was founded. And more importantly, students were accepted on academic merit, so it was one of the first universities in the world to admit females. Good onya, Sydney Uni and Happy 175th Birthday.”
A word now, on the persuasive power of programming from Lesley Green of Castle Hill: “Years ago, when we were teenagers, we went on our first cruise and the first movie shown was The Poseidon Adventure, which at least made everyone turn up for a lifeboat drill the next day. On a flight to London, we watched Taken, which is a wonderful film for girls going overseas and scares the living daylights out of you. And on our honeymoon, we saw Jaws, which made swimming pools all the more inviting. We survived them all!”
“Our family (and neighbours) were connected to the telephone exchange (C8) at Tambar Springs back in the ’60s,” recalls Chris O’Rourke of Bathurst. “The double wires sometimes became twisted by the wind, cutting us off from the outside world. I remember once helping my father untangle them. I stood on the back of the truck with a long stick separating the wires as my father drove along underneath.”
Still on call, Aidan Cuddington of Umina Beach says that he “mentioned ‘sharing party lines’ in a song lyric and had to explain to younger people that no white powder was involved.”
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