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Tony Hunt of Gordon found it “disappointing to read about Steve Waugh asking George Bailey to ‘step up to the plate’ with his Australian cricket team selections in the Herald. More appropriately, Waugh should have asked him to ‘stride out to the crease’ although it does lose some impact.”
“Back in the days of the Hill at the Sydney Cricket Ground, we’d set up a stockade of full eskies,” recalls Wolf Kempa of Lithgow. “When Rodney Hogg bowled, the call was ‘Hoggy, Hoggy, Hoggy. Oink! Oink! Oink!’ The current call of ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi! Oi! Oi!’ may arguably have morphed from that. Anyway, being slightly inebriated, I hit Geoff Boycott (C8) (when fielding) on the back of the head with half an orange (not much security then). On his whirling around to demand the identity of the culprit, everyone pointed to the person next to them. Still feel guilty.”
We have more on the original “Fang” (C8), from Roberta Madsen of Gymea Bay in the form of “a beautiful timber shield, now in my possession, presented to ‘Mr Fraser from his beloved Sixth Form at Mosman High’ which displays items indicative of his character. Among the whisky corks, golf balls, aeroplanes (RAAF World War II), a wooden spoon (self-explanatory), and a stockwhip (just his incessant driving of his students to reach their potential) is a set of dentures. Checking with his former colleagues, I can confirm a front tooth knocked out playing his precious rugby was replaced with a single tooth that would appear as a fang.”
“I wonder how many focus groups were needed for a politician to wear a politically correct T-shirt on AusMusic T-Shirt Day last week,” says Beverley Fine of Pagewood. “Bands to consider: The Hard Ons, The Party Boys, Severed Heads, The Cockroaches, The Killjoys. How INXSive could it be?”
Col Burns of Lugarno says that “other number plate combinations (C8) I’d like to see are a Tesla with RMORSE and a Volvo with RDHZRD.”
“Talking of salt intake (C8), after Australian endocrinologist, Creswell Eastman discovered in the 1990s, a cluster of people suffering from cretinism caused by iodine deficiency in a remote Chinese mountain village, their government introduced a law that all salt for human consumption must be iodised,” writes Lance Dover of Pretty Beach. “No aspersions being cast, but we should do the same here - urgently.”
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