Students corral an unwelcome examination

“I went to an Agricultural College in the 1960s,” John Lees from Castlecrag says. “In those days, the AI (C8) meant artificial insemination. Once, the teacher brought the AI kit to the classroom and placed its components on its table. Then the class ‘volunteer?’ He asked.

Chris Gow from Austinmer overcomes the Dunce Cap (C8) debate. “We should remember the origin of the term: Duns Scotus (probably born in Duns, Scotland), a 13th century Scottish theologian (probably born in Scotland), thought of as a evidence of the best minds of God’s existence.”

Another globite (C8) Status. Helen Scanlon of Northbridge remembered that in the 1940s, Fort St Girls ‘Highs’ students traveling to school by Lilyfield Tast shelf trams. Barry Lamb from Eastwood found another use: “When you put your case for arrival at the bus stop (or when you slide away from a distance), you can go and play.

Some memories are less gentle: ı If you were labeled a global way, it means that you are a mental situation (Derogator) Wyoming Bob Hall.

“I had a globit in the late 1960s, but when I left school as a survey painter, I changed it for a document bag. “I was carrying a set of squares and stump paintings in it.

Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook says, “The school case or port has some connections to the Gladstone bag (C8), a portmanteau itself, and the latter is the port when it is shortened in the baggage context”.

John Brown from Kanga has more about Aviation/Golf (C8) Accord: “There is a sign that this is a ‘active runway’ in one of the holes in the Nullabo Links Golf Field.”

John Dawson of North Parramatta said, “I once read an incident on a golf field in the UK, Raaf’s ‘All our planes have safely returned to the base, but one of the golf balls is missing’.

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