When businesses install heir-conditioning
Do not be afraid, Mary Carde (C8). Not only are there a glut of “& Daughters” businesses (“too many to pick the best from,” says Cherrybrook’s Allan Gibson after a quick search on the ABN Search function) but there are also in the UK. Guard It reported a 75 percent increase in the use of the “& Daughter(s)” suffix. We thank John McCartney from Mt Coolum (Qld) for this.
Closer to home, Greg Oehm of Western Creek (Tas) is “delighted to advise Mary that Moss Vale-based haulage firm Graham Brown and Daughter are proudly displaying their ‘Daughter of &’ status alongside their well-returned purple Kenworth prime movers.”
Robert Leach of Mont Albert North (Vic) recalls that “the leading estate agent in Toorak, Melbourne was Bill Dane, manager of the estate agency Campbell, Hogg and Daughter.”
And Miranda’s Josephine Piper takes it further: “My late brother-in-law, Brian Forrester from Nowra, had a truck with a sign ‘Forrester & Son, Wife and Daughters’.”
Just don’t have melania (C8) It’s nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the FIFA Oscars (congratulations, Connells Point’s Bernie Carberry), but it makes for a wonderfully intimate evening for Manly’s Rhoda Silber: “Peter and I are looking forward to seeing it. melania It’s Wednesday night and we have the cinema to ourselves!”
Natasha Lee of Alexandria wonders: “In response to Christo Curtis while Abraham Lincoln was watching melania Was he heard joking, ‘Shoot me’?”
After Ian Nicholls (C8) demanded that ChatGPT explain Column 8 for him, Mosman’s Jack Dikian asked Claude, Anthropic’s AI system, to do the same. “Sadly ChatGPT wasn’t as optimistic, saying: ‘Column 8 is like Sydney’s group chat: half gossip, half eyebrow-raising and somehow always knows who’s done something a little off-kilter before breakfast.’ He knows me very well.”
“Enough navel gazing. Shall we get back to the important stuff, like what happened to the big cockroaches this summer?” writes Meri Will from Baulkham Hills. “The only ones I’ve seen lately are the ones lying on their stomachs on the ground. While I prefer the dead species, I wonder where the live ones are and why they only come in to die.”
“A story in the newspaper about the redevelopment of Parramatta Road caught my attention. Again,” says Toongabbie’s Bruce Moxon. “If stories about high-speed rail herald an election, what do stories about Parramatta Road herald? (Sorry).”
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