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“What’s up with those roadside signs that tell you what speed you’re doing as you pass?” asks Gary Bryson of Blackheath. “I encountered one recently in a 60kph zone. Due to (ahem) the driver’s inattentiveness, it flashed my speed as 66 kph. Then it said, ‘Well done!’ Was it being sarcastic?”
“Can some erudite Column 8-er tell me when and why Australia started spelling ageing with that e?” asks Gary Nicholson of Carlingford. “We didn’t do it in my school days. No other country does it. And we don’t put an e before ing in any other word. What the?”
Being a musician in the professional capacity, we thought it fitting to give the last item in the band name discussion (C8) to Susan Bradley of Eltham (Vic): “This isn’t a band I saw, but I did teach one of their members the tenor saxophone. In his mid-teens he formed a band with mates, with the bafflingly perfect and incomprehensible name The Martian Spud Humpers. I know they had some gigs, as he kept inviting me, but luckily, I had appointments to wash my hair.”
“A bloke on ABC Radio news said that Artemis II (C8) was the first crude mission into deep space for 40+ years,” notes Tom Wilson of North Turramurra. “Does that mean there have been polite ones?” Granny was wondering if it was a desperate search for more oil.
Politeness doesn’t come into it for Maureen Donlon of Wagga Wagga: “I’m puzzled by the media fixation on a trip around the moon as being a mankind first. The other, older half, tells me that Michael Collins on Apollo 11 circumnavigated the moon 31 times in his nail-biting wait for Armstrong and Aldrin. The other half, is not over the moon about the lack of acknowledgment of this earlier feat.”
It’s a girl! “What a lovely selection of women’s names in Wednesday’s Column 8,” declares Greg Phillipson of Aranda (ACT). “As a soon-to-be grandparent for the first time I am happy to make naming suggestions, and Coral, Lesley, Bunty and Patricia all have their appeal.” Charming stuff. We’ll conduct a welfare check on Maggie Hamilton of North Sydney soon.
David Prest of Thrumster says that “the Palace Cinema in Canberra has a wine (C8) glass marked in increasing volumes: Standard Pour, Feature Length, Epic, Double Feature. The Double Feature may require a designated driver attending proceedings.”
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