Guy Stockwell of Curl Curl was a little concerned with the claims of David M. Calvey that the pine resin used to flavour retsina can be found in Toilet Duck (C8) and asks:“Does drinking too much retsina send you round the bend?”
“I wonder if Kate Coates (C8) would be happier if Elon Musk named his cars after Felix Wankel?” ponders Peter Miniutti of Ashbury. “Wankel doesn’t need much changing to portray Musk,who should be locked up in a Faraday cage.”
There’s been a bit of reportage about bumper stickers for embarrassed Tesla drivers,specifically the “I Bought This Before We Knew Elon Was Crazy” one,but,according to Andrew Taubman of Queens Park,there’s more:“Not A Fascist Supporter,Just A Tesla Driver”,“Make This Car Less Embarrassing Again” and “Ugh. A Tesla. I Know.”
“My sister-in-law kept a large huntsman spider (C8) in her pantry so it could eat the cockroaches that invaded during high humidity,” recalls Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “Ensconced in a corner,said spider gave me quite a fright when I went to fetch a packet of biscuits. Needless to say,whenever we visited,I kept my arachnophobic daughter well away from all the kitchen cupboards.”
Barry Galbraith of Cranebrook is a man of exactitude:“Look upStandard ISO-3103,and you’ll see that tea making (C8) is indeed a science.”
“Sorry to say that Peter Gaydon (C8) was misinformed,as the inventor of the crossword was buried in a cryptic.” We thank Greg Leisner of Black Head.
“I,too,had an interesting experience at Prestwick Golf Club (C8),” claims Peter Snowden of Orange. “After an errant tee shot and exasperating search,I found my ball alongside a furtive,motionless old chap hiding in some heath. Around his neck on a tarnished chain was a medal inscribed with,‘Scottish Hide and Seek Champion 1972’.”
“William Webb Ellis (C8) was a man of the cloth,” reminds Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook. “An Anglican clergyman who no doubt is still heavily involved in the game they play in heaven.”
Forget about “two spiders hanging out their washing”. John Crowe of Cherrybrook recalls when Rorschach testing (C8) was popular,and one patient was given a series of different inkblots. “His consistent interpretation was ‘elephants making love’. When it was asserted by the specialist that this was unlikely,his response was:‘you’re the one drawing the dirty pictures’.”
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