When RoboCrop isn’t enough
Despite the benefits of cyber crop management (C8) promoted by Chris Keane, Drummoyne’s Pauline McGinley still has concerns about the impact of Artificial Intelligence “but by far my biggest concern at the moment is Human Stupidity.”
Channeling her inner ‘Bubbles’ Fisher, Lidcombe’s Kath Maher definitely wants a laser weeder: “Just a small one and it comes in lots of colours?”
“There are limits to the Australian Turf Club’s generosity,” believes Northmead’s George Zivkovic. “Members received an email ahead of the 70th running of the Golden Slipper, the world’s richest race for two-year-olds, promising them a 70p drink loaded onto members’ cards and redeemable after the iconic race is run on Saturday. It’s a far cry from John ‘Singo’ Singleton shouting in the bar at Rosehill after winning the horse in 2000 or Perce becoming the ‘Prince of the Bookies’,” Galea said. “He threw money into the crowd when he won the horse in 1964.”
Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld) says: “recent thoughts on old-fashioned ointments and ointments (C8) remind me of gentian violet as my mother’s go-to brightener for cuts and scratches. And it also made me wonder, does anyone remember those little bags containing camphor that mothers had you wear around your neck in the winter months? Did they have a nice use of dinkum, or was this another one of those old wives’ tales?”
Jonty Grinter from Katoomba breathes: “As a Ten Pound Pom, I must say Australians are a strange bunch. When I was a child in the home country, my mother mixed a bowl of monk’s balm with boiling water, put a tea towel over our heads and made us inhale the vapors to clear congestion and stuffy noses. She used a pink antiseptic cream called Germolene for cuts and scrapes.”
We’re pleased to report that Janice Creenaune’s “lost friendship” query (C8) got its money’s worth, the John Wall in question “is the same John Wall she knew from a long time ago, and she’s very lucky to still be married to Denise.” A capture operation is underway.
William Galton, of Hurstville Grove, said: “Vicki Zvargulis (C8) can take comfort in knowing that if her sad death is reported in the obituaries, it will probably be her last, thus giving mortals a little more time.” “Apparently people are still dying in alphabetical order.”
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