The day Sir Geoffrey should have appealed
Gordon’s Tony Hunt said: “Disappointing to read that Steve Waugh has asked George Bailey to ‘step up’ in selection for the Australian cricket team.” reporter. More appropriately, Waugh should have asked him to ‘move towards the crease’, albeit with some diminished impact.”
“During the Hill days at the Sydney Cricket Ground, we used to have a camp of old guys,” recalls Lithgow’s Wolf Kempa. “When Rodney Hogg bowled, the call was: ‘Hoggy, Hoggy, Hoggy. Oink! Oink! Oink!’ ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie’s current call. Hey! Hey! Hey!’ It may possibly have differed from this. Anyway, as I was a bit drunk I hit Geoff Boycott (C8) (on the field) in the back of the head with half an orange (there wasn’t much security back then). When he turned around to ask the identity of the criminal, everyone pointed to the person next to him. “I still feel guilty.”
We have more information on the original ‘Fang’ (C8) by Roberta Madsen of Gymea Bay, ‘a beautiful wooden shield presenting elements of her character, presented to Mr Fraser from his beloved Sixth Form at Mosman High School’. Whiskey corks, golf balls, airplanes (RAAF World War II), a wooden spoon (self-explanatory) and a whip (just his relentless push to push his students to reach their potential) From examination of his former colleagues, I can confirm that his front tooth, which was knocked out while playing precious rugby, has been replaced by a single tooth that looks like a tooth.
“I wonder how many focus groups it would take for a politician to wear a politically correct T-shirt to AusMusic T-Shirt Day last week,” says Pagewood’s Beverley Fine. “Bands to consider: The Hard Ons, The Party Boys, Severed Heads, The Cockroaches, The Killjoys. How INXSive can it be?”
“Other plate combinations I’d like to see (C8) are a Tesla with RMORSE and a Volvo with RDHZRD,” says Lugarno’s Col Burns.
Lance Dover of Pretty Beach writes: “Speaking of salt intake (C8), after Australian endocrinologist Creswell Eastman discovered a group of people in a remote Chinese mountain village in the 1990s suffering from cretinism, caused by iodine deficiency, their government passed a law that all salt for human consumption had to be iodized.” he writes. “No slander, but we urgently need to do the same here.”
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