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In commentary sure to upset Trekkies, Graeme Finn of Campsie reckons that POTUS did not, in fact, opt for the Universal Translator (C8): “I think that Donald Trump misread Douglas Adams and inserted a Babble Fish instead of a Babel Fish.”
“My daughter, who was visiting from New Zealand, tried to buy an Opal card at Maitland Railway Station,” says Michael Elfick of Woodville. “She was informed that the ticket office doesn’t handle Opal cards, but if she went to the shopping centre in town, she could buy one at the tobacconist. It’s a strange world when you cannot buy a ticket at a major railway station and even stranger that they are sold at a tobacconist.”
As we’ve done the place name (C8) thing to death in the past and because of certain sensitivities that have (quite rightly) arisen over all the murder-themed locations getting a mention, we’re winding it up, but we do like this item from Wolf Kempa of Lithgow: “There’s a very clean dunny at the top of Who’d A Thought It Hill, near Quirindi. I made up a limerick about the occasion with lyrics rhyming with ‘it’ but luckily have forgotten the words.”
“Two kids visiting asked about the suburb of Valentine after it appeared in Herald letters,” reflects Sue Casiglia of North Ryde. “The 10-year-old boy cried out in disgust while the 13-year-old girl just smiled and giggled. Has anybody ever lived in a suburb, the name of which caused them great embarrassment, despite not necessarily being a weird or unusual word?” With that, we eagerly await correspondence from Swinger Hill (ACT) residents.
“I’ll be as quick as I can to answer Tony Early’s query (C8) whether I was related to Eileen Dover,” writes Lance Dover of Pretty Beach. “Yes, Tony, she was my aunty, married to my uncle Charlie. Another uncle, Neil Dover was married to my aunty Caroline, Carrie for short.”
For what it’s worth, Mary Anne Hingerty, the Scrabble stats (C8) are in, courtesy of Joel Alexander of Eastlakes: “The specific situation of drawing two Ns, then two Es, then two Is, has odds of approximately 1 in 3.4 million. For the general case of just drawing the same tile three times in a row, the probability would be a fair bit higher, but the calculation of it would be somewhat more complicated, as you’d need to consider every possible outcome.”
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