“Goodness me,” declares Thelma Frost of Mudgee. “A Sydney suburb called Northern Neutral Bay Heights (C8),what a mouthful! Could it be shortened for convenience to ‘Social Climbing?’”
Still on elevating districts,Tom Meakin of Port Macquarie says:“Before it became trendy,we had friends who lived in Erskineville. They called it ‘Erko Heights’.”
Some of those taking part in the generation discourse (C8) need to brush up on their Brit rock. Following the suggestion by John Kouvelis (the Northern Neutral Bay Heights guy) that post Gen Z could be named ‘MyGen’,both Mark Berg of Caringbah South and Robert Bradley of Bowral suggested that there was a ready-made anthem in the form of the classic confrontational bangerMy Generation,written by a cranky Pete Townshend for his band in 1965. Only problem is,Mark and Robert identified the Rolling Stones as the vehicle for said anthem. Whoare you people?
Shout-out to Anne Cook of Ermington,who correctly identified The Who and adds “It might even cause a generational war to rival the mud slinging at Boomers. ”
“I applaud the suggestion by John Kouvelis and his ‘My’ list,” says Richard Hale of Paddington. “I think that with the current politicians’ attention span,the next one should be ‘MyOpic’.”
Replying to Charles Davies-Scourfield,Michael Size of Allambie Heights asks:“Why disembark (C8) when you can simply alight. As in the headline:‘Bus On Fire. Passengers Alight’.”
“I beg to differ with Stephanie Edwards (C8),” says Peter Craig of Dulwich Hill. “To my admittedly untrained ear,the predominant mispronunciation of ‘nuclear’ is ‘new killer’,which seems tragically apt. By all means let us hasten to enforce correct phonetics,lest by common usage such linguistic corruption be deemed acceptable.”
Back to the demonym debate (C8),where Nick Walker of Suffolk Park hasn’t worked out why Tasmanians are ‘ABCs’,“I would have thought they would be ‘ABSs’. Across Bass Strait.” Chris Lockley “was delighted to learn on my retirement to the pleasant NSW village of Alstonville (known locally as Awesomeville) that residents are referred to as Alstonvillians.”
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