Live bowl leads to a dead green
“Monday TV Guide promises an episode Return to Heaven Port Macquarie’s Don Bain notes: ‘A tense bowling game turns into chaos when a player is killed on the field in broad daylight.’ “This created a wave of nostalgia for the old trunds.”
“Someone I know very well locked his keys inside the car (C8) but also left the engine running,” writes Debbie Rudder of Maroubra. “I had to take a taxi from the University of NSW to the Australian Museum (this was long before the Uber era) to save her from both a parking ticket and running out of gas.”
Although October 27 is widely considered the “Day of the Dead for Pets” or Dia de Muertos for MascotasStill, it was a terrible day for Donna Wiemann of Balmain, who said, “My precious fifteen-year-old Jack Russell, Will, went to doggy heaven and left me in hell. So there’s some justice in this crazy, terrible world. I asked him to say a quick word about Trump into God’s ear. We’ll see how that goes.”
Balmain’s John Constable warms up: “The Windsor knot (C8) is anathema to every well-dressed gentleman for whom the crooked schoolboy knot is the epitome of style.”
Forestville’s Merilyn McClung wonders if politicians really have alter egos, as Pasquale Vartuli (C8) never saw Sir Les Patterson and Federal bench player Don Farrell in the same room: “I always thought Scott Morrison was a dead ringer for Benny Hill’s Fred Tuttle.” In appearance or in action?
“Speaking of twins, I think Granny is the salivating image of Esme Watson. One Country Application Sue Casiglia, from North Ryde, says: “Isn’t she enigmatic, both in appearance and personality, right down to the Dame Edna Everage-style glasses?”
“A small blue freezer block (C8) was confiscated from my hand luggage at Sydney Airport when I was flying to New Zealand in 2019 because it contained over 100ml of liquid,” recalls Gwandalan’s David Sayers. “It was supposed to keep our food cool during our driving holiday. The security guard told me this would be allowed if it was in frozen format because it wouldn’t be classified as liquid. So I thought I knew the airport security rules. He said I should have paid more attention during science classes at school.”
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