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“Why all the shock/horror/angst regarding Pauline Hanson’s Saxa shaker? (C8),” asks Les Tomlinson of Berowra Heights. “Please remember, the lady in question used to run a fish and chippery, where large quantities of NaCl were de rigueur, as my hypertension keeps reminding me. Nurse! My pills!”
Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield is “very puzzled as to why Pauline doesn’t use chicken salt, based on her previous occupation. Every cook worth his/her salt should be offering it.”
Also giving it a shake is Peter Lino of Lennox Head: “Though Brenda Kerrigan wouldn’t put a Saxa salt shaker on the table as it is ‘common as muck’, Johnny, Vince and Sam’s Ristorante in Melbourne revels in including them as part of the decor on their plastic-covered tablecloths, along with kitsch prints on the wall, reminiscent of a nonna’s home dining room from the sixties. Fun!”
While Joy Cooksey of Harrington reckons that “tossers throwing beer cans at a Test match (C8) were obviously trying to prove they too had the bowling skills of those on the field,” Mark Westwood of Narooma remembers attending the first day-night game at the SCG between Australia and West Indies in 1978 (Granny was there, annoying punters on the Hill with her oversized Max Walker banner): “We were standing at the Randwick end when an enterprising young man, looking for a decent view, scaled up and sat on the sightscreen to the right of us. Etched into my mind is one of several froth-spraying spinning beer cans scoring a direct hit and prompting him to scuttle quickly back down to earth accompanied by loud cheers from the crowd.”
Kersi Meher-Homji of St Ives presents this item, on the double, for the benefit of our friend Peter Moran: “I, personally, know Dr Behram Doctor. Dr Doctor (C8) is my doctor and friend.”
There are other ways to approach this: “At an international conference many years ago, there was a delegate who insisted she be addressed as Doctor Doctor,” recalls Llewellyn Dickeson of Culburra Beach. “Her reasoning for this was that she had a PhD as well as a medical degree so she wanted both to be acknowledged.”
It’s not exactly a double-up but Neil Nicoll of Waverton’s offering hasn’t dated at all: “My favourite name came from Mad magazine many years ago. If Tuesday Weld married fellow actor Frederick March III she would be called Tuesday March the 3rd.”
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