The saga of ‘Mick/Dick the Tick’ continues (C8). Martin Mansfield of Baulkham Hills passes on intel from his in-laws,John Pope and Marion Barrett,who “remember their late father,Dr David Pope,telling them about stitching up the head of a young man called ‘Dick the Tick’ in the late 1940s or early 1950s when the family were living in Macksville on the mid-north coast. So,it appears it’s not an urban myth,at least on one occasion.”
Around 1970,Susan Haylock of Mosman had a boyfriend in the RAAF who,with a couple of his fellow officer trainees,drove around in an old Morris Minor. “They’d made an enormous key shape that they kept in the car,so that at each red light (C8) one of them would get out,pretend to insert it in the side of the car and start winding. When the light changed,into the car they would hop and drive off rapidly. Hope they didn’t use the same key on the Macchi jets they were learning on!”
Richard Keyes of Enfield recalls that in the 1960s whenever he needed to “turn right onto Military Road from a side street in Mosman,which was nearly impossible at peak hour due to the heavy traffic,my passenger would get out of the car and run up to the pedestrian crossing. As he crossed,the traffic had to stop,which allowed me to get onto Military Road where he would then get back in the car and off we would go. Worked every time.”
George Zivkovic of Northmead noticed an “interesting mixed metaphor from Richard Marles the other day,saying that Russia doesn’t ‘play by the rules of the road’. At least he avoided talking about the elephant in the glass house (China).”
India’s popular NOTA voting option (C8) reminded Jennifer Nicholls of Armadale (Vic) of the success of our local version in last year’s Federal election:“TEAL (This Electorate Avoids Labels).”
Tongue twister fan (C8) David Grant of Ballina lives in hope of “a politician in hard hat and fluoro vest making a policy announcement to a gathering of pheasant pluckers and making a hash of it.”
If Saturday is death day in the SMH (C8),then Brian Kidd of Mount Waverley (Vic) says that “Wednesday runs a gallant second.” Carole Sydenham has also noticed that “deaths are more frequent among people whose surnames start with letters from the first half of the alphabet.“
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