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The Age
02-07-2025
- General
- The Age
Royal ruse is still an honour
'My name appeared in the recent King's Birthday 2025 Honours List, but it was not me,' says David Pigott of North Parramatta. 'However, I received a letter from my local club congratulating me on being awarded an OAM. I intend to frame the letter. Fellow C8-ers, mum's the word.' Brian Byrne of Flinders can get a little hung up on redundant terminology at times: 'The Bride and I had a chuckle when I opined that, in this weather, roofers' phones would be 'ringing off the hook'. We had to agree that the only valid word in this statement was 'the'.' Doing Tuesday's Superquiz, I learned that death cap mushrooms (very topical) were introduced to Australia,' notes Joe Barry of Lalor Park. 'The question is why?' Ian Costley of Belrose gets across the animal pedestrian (C8) discussion: 'Some years ago, visiting Tokyo, I noticed a group of police waiting patiently on the side of a six-lane freeway opposite the Imperial Palace with barricades, ready to close the road. My driver explained that it is an annual event when a mother duck and her ducklings decide to cross to the Imperial gardens. Lucky duck.' 'Cars and tool sheds are but two of many cane toad (C8) mitigation strategies,' reckons Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 'Young lads working in the cane fields were known to play 'cane toad golf' at night with a 9-iron after a can or three of XXXX.' George Zivkovic of Northmead now provides his Gilligan's Island right of reply: 'Granny, with respect to those Gilligan's Island (C8) savants, alI I can say is that Casey Jones and Maynard G Krebs must have met on the mainland before deciding to move to Honolulu and team up and run that charter boat. I'm only disappointed that McHale and the crew of the PT73 didn't rescue the castaways.' 'With all this talk of Gilligan's Island, the unanswered question is: 'What happened to Ginger (who was allergic to cats)?'' asks Pasquale Vartuli of Wahroonga. We can report that Ginger (Tina Louise) is the last living castaway, at the ripe old age of 91. The last time Granny saw her strut her stuff was as Brad Pitt's record producer in the indie flick Johnny Suede.
Sydney Morning Herald
02-07-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
Royal ruse is still an honour
'My name appeared in the recent King's Birthday 2025 Honours List, but it was not me,' says David Pigott of North Parramatta. 'However, I received a letter from my local club congratulating me on being awarded an OAM. I intend to frame the letter. Fellow C8-ers, mum's the word.' Brian Byrne of Flinders can get a little hung up on redundant terminology at times: 'The Bride and I had a chuckle when I opined that, in this weather, roofers' phones would be 'ringing off the hook'. We had to agree that the only valid word in this statement was 'the'.' Doing Tuesday's Superquiz, I learned that death cap mushrooms (very topical) were introduced to Australia,' notes Joe Barry of Lalor Park. 'The question is why?' Ian Costley of Belrose gets across the animal pedestrian (C8) discussion: 'Some years ago, visiting Tokyo, I noticed a group of police waiting patiently on the side of a six-lane freeway opposite the Imperial Palace with barricades, ready to close the road. My driver explained that it is an annual event when a mother duck and her ducklings decide to cross to the Imperial gardens. Lucky duck.' 'Cars and tool sheds are but two of many cane toad (C8) mitigation strategies,' reckons Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 'Young lads working in the cane fields were known to play 'cane toad golf' at night with a 9-iron after a can or three of XXXX.' George Zivkovic of Northmead now provides his Gilligan's Island right of reply: 'Granny, with respect to those Gilligan's Island (C8) savants, alI I can say is that Casey Jones and Maynard G Krebs must have met on the mainland before deciding to move to Honolulu and team up and run that charter boat. I'm only disappointed that McHale and the crew of the PT73 didn't rescue the castaways.' 'With all this talk of Gilligan's Island, the unanswered question is: 'What happened to Ginger (who was allergic to cats)?'' asks Pasquale Vartuli of Wahroonga. We can report that Ginger (Tina Louise) is the last living castaway, at the ripe old age of 91. The last time Granny saw her strut her stuff was as Brad Pitt's record producer in the indie flick Johnny Suede.
