“It was sad to read that a leading fashion house is having business problems,even following a shake-up last year when a new role of ‘co-deputy chief executive’ was created,” notes Barbara Rogers of Freshwater. “Perhaps it will help if they do as a shareholder has suggested and have things professionally ‘managerialised’.”
Col Burns of Lugarno is familiar with demonyms (C8) getting the chop:“When questioning our Year 8 class about the name given to residents of the French capital,our language teacher looked willing to inflict Madame Guillotine when,without hesitation,my mate Steve replied ‘Parasites,Miss’.”
“A demonym with a difference,” claims Barry Wooldridge of Harden. “The residents of Harden-Murrumburrah (or should that be Murrumburrah-Harden?) are known to many as the Hyphenates.”
It would appear that Janice Creenaune and her dad drew the short straw with their acuity tester (C8),if the experience of Toni Lorentzen of Fennell Bay is anything to go by:“While in hospital,my late father,a noted leftie,was asked during testing who the current prime minister was. He replied ‘That BASTARD’[We’ll let you guess who was in office at the time]. The tester knew exactly who Dad was referring to,and he was passed on that item.”
There are enforcers,however. Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne “was once asked during a fundraiser quiz:‘In the playHamlet,who is Yorick?’ I answered,‘Hamlet’s father’s court jester.’ I was unceremoniously sent back to my seat while being informed that the answer was,‘A skull.’ The quizmaster’s decision was final and no appeals were to be entertained!”
“Similarly to Seppo Ranki’s grandson (C8),I lost my wallet at Erina Fair shopping Centre recently,” writes Doug Lindsay of Wamberal. “A very kind lady found it and was able to call my local golf club from my membership card in the wallet who then contacted me with her phone number. Not only had she gone to this trouble,she waited at the centre for 20 minutes for me to race back to collect it. Again,thank you kind lady.”
Meri Will of Baulkham Hills is ticked off with all things Patek Philippe (C8):“That anyone can wear the price of a house as a pretentious accessory while others struggle to find somewhere to live is a testimony to the obscene opulence of certain sectors of our society and its screwed-up values.” What she said!
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