Extra on the perils on the issues of instructing many youngsters with the identical or related names. Marjie Williamson of Blaxland remembers her time at Ashcroft PS the place one 12 months she had 5 boys named “Stephen” in her class. One other 12 months, on the identical faculty, there have been two ladies named Kim-Maree – cousins, with the identical surname, in several courses.
Kate Prosser of Armidale gives sympathy with the completely different spellings of Alicia (Col8 Friday). In 1996, I taught a kindergarten class with 5 Jessicas. Very tough and every was known as Jessie after which the preliminary of their surname. Clearly, a extremely popular lady’s identify within the early Nineties, she says. Col8 says it’s a warning to oldsters contemplating the most recent trendy identify.
Then Bryan Richards, now of Kewarra Seashore in Queensland, says, “Working in western Sydney, my staff included two Lisas, a Leasa and a Leisa.”
One other midwife story from Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne, who reviews, “My Scottish cousin, a midwife, had simply delivered a wee lady and requested the dad and mom her identify, for the cardboard above the bassinet. On being knowledgeable, ‘Versace’, she requested concerning the appropriate spelling, solely to be suggested, ‘Simply the standard manner.’ Their household identify was McClatchie.”
Norm McFarlane of South Bowenfels would now like to vary topics, after studying the biblical joke in Friday’s Column 8. He hopes we are able to begin a sequence of them, starting together with his providing, “The place is a bike talked about within the Bible? In Joshua 6:27 (relying on the interpretation), the place it says, ‘Joshua’s triumph was heard all through the land’.”
John Begg of Fitzroy Falls provides to the merriment with a spiritual if not fairly biblical quip, “In fact then there was the grizzly with a imaginative and prescient defect – Gladly the cross-eyed bear.”
Stephen Dain of Brighton-Le-Sands joins in with two biblical jokes: “The place is cricket talked about within the Bible? – ‘And Peter stood up earlier than the eleven and was daring’, and ‘The place is State Rail talked about within the Bible?’ – And God made all creeping issues.”
To finish with, as soon as once more Col8ers rise to a problem and Brian Keast of Minnamurra goes for the Australia Publish throat. “Now that my mail will solely be delivered each second day I’ve been pressured to discover a technique to battle again. So to any extent further, I’m solely going to put up my mail each second day. Let’s see how they like that!” You inform ’em, love.
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