“Being round about Granny’s age and with numerous buddies who sport synthetic joints, I watched, with marvel, the five-hour-45-minute marathon between Murray and Kokkinakis,” says Patricia Fraser of Balgowlah. “How lengthy, I ask myself, earlier than Andy is obtainable sponsorship by the maker of his prosthetic hip?”
Made for the sport. Nick Walker of Springwood was “enormously amused to see one of many gamers within the Australian Open is American Katie Volynets”. Staying on court docket, Kin Wong of Chatswood thinks Rafael Nadal’s harm “should be severe for the ABC to name it a battleship harm! Let’s want him a speedy restoration.”
“George Manojlovic, I do know your hen (C8),” claims Susan Newman of Mona Vale. “A few years in the past, considered one of them would wake me with ‘Chappaquiddick! Chappaquiddick!’ adopted again and again by ‘It’s horrible! It’s horrible! It’s horrible!’ Wattle it fixate on subsequent?” In all probability not the primaries.
“My son, Scott, was certainly nonetheless in his footwear once they went lacking at an airport baggage carousel (C8),” remembers Bob Phillips of Cabarita. “As a toddler, he determined to discover the carousel whereas we had been busy attempting to establish our luggage. After a frantic ‘somebody has taken my child!’ interval, he emerged, undamaged, by means of the flaps, wanting more than happy together with his free experience.”
Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven, who has had his ups and downs, additionally has recommendation for Meri Will and Peter Neufeld: “An elevator (C8) is how they get grain right into a silo – assume Grain Elevators Board, later renamed GrainCorp. Some used bucket conveyors, others had been pneumatic.” Bruce Graham of Waitara provides: “Within the golden years of Hollywood, quick cowboy actors had elevators dropped into the heels of their boots.”
“The dialogue about elevators jogged my memory of studying the delightfully sensible Cantonese translation for an elevator when residing in Hong Kong,” writes Sheba Brener of Rushcutters Bay. “The interpretation is sing gong gei, which suggests ‘ascending falling machine’ – excellent!”
Payment MacGregor of Randwick desires to thank Arian Bell “for ascribing the slogan to Teague’s Bread (C8), however I’m nonetheless at the hours of darkness. What on earth does it imply?”
Toni Stevenson of Fairlight remembers a equally inventive catchphrase “at Hurstville Station across the Fifties/’60s on the again wall of a store that learn ‘In case your hair will not be turning into to you, you need to be coming to us’. Not my station, so I by no means came upon whether or not it was true.”
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