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Steve Hulbert of West Kempsey writes: “My ‘dwarf hibiscus’, while truly beautiful this time of year, is over four metres high and, if not for repeated trimming, would no doubt be massive – which begs the question – what is the tallest ‘dwarf’ plant?”
“Girlie mags in communist Balkan countries (C8) seem to have been popular,” reckons Con Vaitsas of Ashbury. “In 1990, while on a tour of Albania, the most secretive and bizarre country I’ve ever visited, where our every move was closely monitored by a guide, we decided to leave the tour and travel on our own. In a small town, looking lost, we were approached by a man who told us in English we should go back to rejoin our tour. When we asked how he learnt English he said from reading Playboy. ”
Granny can’t help thinking that the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane has a lot to answer for, as evidenced by Elizabeth Richens of Greystanes: “The guard at the security checkpoint (C8) at the San Francisco International Airport spotted a rubber snake in the X-ray of my son’s bag and told him it couldn’t go on the plane. In the face of a very upset five-year-old the guard kindly walked us back to the check-in, and the snake was packed into a little cardboard suitcase and checked through. It was picked up at the other end and made it through customs without a problem.”
On the double (C8), Steven Clare of Beecroft says that “although tempting, my wife Claire didn’t take my surname, if only to avoid a lifetime of clarification. Still, it didn’t stop us being dubbed ‘Cla(i)re squared’.”
Merilyn McClung of Forestville, “had to chuckle when I heard that TV show Neighbours apparently ends with all the houses in the street being demolished for a freeway. Personally, I would have gone for a sinkhole”.
Just watched a rerun of Goldfinger and couldn’t help noting the similarities between Goldfinger and the US President,” says Geoff Gilligan of Coogee. “From cheating at golf to his big, beautiful plan to control America’s gold supply. I shudder to think what would have happened if he had met Pussy Galore.”
Pardon, Janice? “In the pressure of an HSC trial, ‘Pardner’ (C8) is pardonable as a misspelling of ‘Pardoner’,” grants Rob Watson of Myocum. “But ‘misefforts’ is not even a word!”
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