“Ah, the fun to be found in the Parliamentary TV subtitles, which rendered the Member for Fadden as ‘the Member for Saturn’,” writes Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “The travel expenses would be astronomical!”
“Tell me I haven’t just seen an ad for tinned formula for seniors on TV,” implores Viv Mackenzie of Port Hacking. “Talk about cradle to the grave. Perhaps it was an expensive April Fool’s prank?”
Andrew Brown of Bowling Alley Point has a question relating to cycling snobbery: “Col Begg (C8) has me wondering, do any riders still turn their ‘racing handles’ downside up, so they are raised on high and looking akin to water buffalo? And do they respond to friendly waving from the flat bar mob?”
“It always thrills me to see one of my former colleagues in Herald Letters or Column 8, but to be there on the same day is amazing!” says Alison Stewart of Waitara. “Merilyn McClung (C8) and I worked together late last century and early this century in educating high school students. Great memories.”
Regarding Merilyn’s thoughts on Winx’s new foal (C8), Meri Will Baulkham Hills thinks “if Winx had triplets they’d be called Winkn, Blinkn and Nod.”
“I hear schools are struggling to get maths teachers these days,” notes Antoinette Hirst of Double Bay. ”I couldn’t help thinking how times have changed. Sorting through old papers, I came across my husband’s high school report of some 70 years ago: ‘For Latin.’ I told him, ‘it says lazy’. ‘We had a maths teacher teaching us Latin’, was his response.”
Adrian Bell of Davistown says Michael Dunlop (C8) can relax: “Like many so-called national characteristics or traits, a locally designated trait is taken by outsiders to apply to the whole nation. For example, in Ireland the Kerrymen are deemed as ‘a bit thick’. Similarly, in Scotland, it is the Aberdonians who are reputed to be ‘mean’ – ‘mean, mean men from Aberdeen’. Anyone who has stayed or travelled through Scotland will testify to Scottish hospitality, generosity and ability to welcome outsiders – even Sassenachs!”
Meanwhile, in Glasgow, a local lady noticed Kevin Hunt of Kenthurst “swearing at a parking meter on discovering it was coin only and insisted on giving me three pounds in coins, and refused my offer of a five-pound note in return. ‘I’m Scottish’ she said. ‘It’s my duty to help a visitor’. That’s PR for you.”
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