This is untimely:“Strolling up the top end of King Street near Castlereagh there is a large Rolex clock,” notes John Swanton of Coogee. “It’s running three minutes slow.”
“It’s one of the great mysteries of modern tech that I can beam my face to my mother in her cottage in Sweden,I can send text messages from a 747,but they can’t make my GPS work in a city tunnel,” writes Alex Holmes of Balmain. “No satellite signal booster they can bloody well install in those billion dollar taxpayer funded tunnels? In all seriousness,should this really be an insurmountable tech conundrum in 2023?”
“I’ve been holidaying on the Dalmatian Coast for a month and have not spotted a single Dalmatian dog,” says Peter Miniutti of Ashbury. “Did Disney buy them all?”
While Gary Lowe of Grenfell initially had concerns on hearing Dusty Springfield’sI Only Want To Be With You and the line “I fell into your broken arms”,this lyric,misheard (C8) by Kate Prosser of Armidale is rather sartorial:“In the mid-1990s,my preferred music when cleaning was Mental As Anything. My young son,now 30,used to sing along with me toToo Many Times,but his version wasTwo Men in Tights!”
Vince Russo of Woonona was certain John Fogerty was advising him that “there’s a bathroom on the right” on hearing a well-known Creedence Clearwater Revival tune,as was the daughter of Janet Bugden of Wauchope.
Moving on with a hard-boiled assessment on the viewing habits of Gerd Hollander from Wendy Illingworth of Kiama:“Anyone who chooses to watchLewis (C8) should be happy with nine-minute ad breaks. This might sound harsh but as it has the slowest moving plot of any show,an ad break brings welcome relief!”
“Poor Don Bain (C8),” laments George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “Torn between two plovers.”
“The appeal of walking around Iron Cove in an anti-clockwise direction (C8) is that it’s the inside lane and closest to the water,” says Jeffrey Gabriel of Gladesville. “I walk clockwise to get more of a workout than the lazy majority.”
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