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Les Shearman of Darlington sees no need to combat a bit of memory loss (C8): “The madness of clouds: age confers the right to forget, and forgive.”
Lance Dover of Pretty Beach remembers “way back then, the whole family being gobsmacked when Dennis Mercier, Emile’s (C8) son and a colleague of my late artist sister Elaine, arrived to take her to the Head of the River in his father’s Holden, cleverly rebadged as Oldhen and emblazoned with hilarious painted cartoons and sayings such as This car has direrear – passes everything and This car has constipation – hasn’t passed a thing all day. All this in leafy Bible Belt Eastwood where, as my father would say, hens were locked away from roosters on Sundays!”
“Forget the law office Andrew Cohen (C8), most husbands would kill for a cone of silence (C8) in the home, especially with footy season about to kick off,” thinks Peter Miniutti of Ashbury. That’s assuming one can make it work, of course. Meri Will of Baulkham Hills notes that “in all the years I watched Get Smart, that thing never worked, and it drove the Chief nuts!”
Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld) thinks that “while Andrew is keen to get his hands on Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone and cone of silence, I wonder if anybody has Star Trek’s alien language translator which Donald Trump is going to need, now that he is directing the Secretary of War to identify and release the classified files on ‘alien and extraterrestrial life’.”
“Tassie also has a Deep Creek (C8), Deep Creek Campground, and a Deep Creek Road,” says Jeff McNamara of Ulverstone (Tas). “But I doubt any other state has a Murdering Gully Road.
More strine (C8), this time from Russell Mullins of Roseville: “Imagine the terror when a Japanese hospital patient was informed by her surgeon that she should go home ‘todai’.” Bernie Carberry of Connells Point adds that “while visiting Seoul, my family were impressed when our guide told us the expression she learnt from living in Australia was ‘chucking a uey’.”
“Monday’s story of the new police group of 250 officers to maintain security at large events was described on the TV news as having the intention that these events would be patrolled by police with long arms,” notes Scott Illingworth of Kiama. “As an employment policy I thought it sounded a bit limbist.”
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