Peter Miniutti of Ashbury was relieved to report that “For the primary time for so long as I can bear in mind, I didn’t learn an merchandise in C8 in regards to the first sighting of scorching cross buns.” About the identical time this missive arrived, our colleagues over the way in which in Herald letters, fielded the next from Heather Johnson of West Pennant Hills: “May I be the primary to assert a scorching cross bun sighting? Coles, West Pennant Hills, December, 28.”
Whereas Jenny Stephenson of Wollongong thinks “with the uttermost Column 8 respect” that Alan Eason (C8) “appears like a tautology get together pooper,” Col Burns of Lugarno thanks him “for serving to me make ahead progress in my understanding of tautology by offering two classes one after the opposite in succession.”
“I don’t know if the applicant was a sufferer of spellchecker (C8) or a poor training, however I as soon as had a girl submit a CV for a educating place, and below her private qualities she listed her involvement in Sunday college the place she taught younger kids to sing ‘hymens’,” remembers Grant Heaton of Port Macquarie.
“Within the early ’90s we had a stunning girl known as Anna who had an Italian surname (beginning with B) working with us,” writes Mark Fuller of Armidale. “When her identify was entered into the phrase processor it was modified to Anal Brush. It made for a lot merriment, however was a little bit of a bummer.”
Stewart Copper of Maroubra notes that whereas “Balgowlah Heights could have its smug bush turkeys (C8), patrons on the Sydney Fish Market on Christmas Eve had been amused to see a not-so-small pelican plodding round with them. The chook seemed to be completely at dwelling and was not a bit intimidated by the group. In contrast to the bush turkey, on arrival, he waited for vehicles to cross earlier than making his method behind them. Maybe regulars could have seen him earlier than, however some patrons acquired a little bit of a begin once they seen his nibs wandering alongside beside them.”
Except for garnering some amusement from one newsreader’s report of a “raft” of retirements from the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, George Zivkovic of Northmead thinks “You need to tip your sailor’s hat to the impartiality and honest play of the boat race that begins each Boxing Day: ‘The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a traditional lengthy ocean race open to anybody who owns a yacht’.”
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