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Speaking of his MAGAsty, Tablelander Lorraine Milla has serious concerns regarding Don Bain's dream: 'While Orange is known as the Colour City, we certainly do not need a colourful character such as the 'leader of the free world' to move here'.
Looks like John Howard (C8) isn't the only pariah among pets. Ross Storey of Normanhurst claims his daughter's cavoodle Rufus 'growls at Donald Trump when he appears on the television screen'.
Mark Baldwin of Terrigal is more than happy to accommodate Ros Turkington (C8): 'Ida was, of course, immortalised in song by Glenn Miller, Eddie Cantor, Eddie Leonard, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, among others: 'Ida! Sweet as apple cider ... Ida, I idolize ya, I love you Ida, 'deed I do'. And inflicted on us during player piano singalongs and then by my music teacher during seemingly interminable piano lessons.'
Forget Jack the Stripper (C8). David Prest of Thrumster recalls a time when the sideshows at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in the '60s had a decidedly burlesque vibe about them. 'There was the 'attraction' Vanessa the Undresser, but as a young Navy apprentice, naive and under 18, I didn't have the courage to view the undressing of Vanessa.'
Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven isn't foxing when he declares, 'Yes, Jane Howland [C8], most of us have noticed that for drivers of the expensive German marques, the use of indicators is merely a suggestion, not a requirement. I approach every roundabout with trepidation if there is an Audi in sight.'
'It's not so much that their indicators don't work, rather that the drivers of such vehicles regard signalling beneath them, as it diminishes their entitlement status,' adds Tim O'Donnell of Newport.
Wait! There's spore. Bruce Satchwell of Carrara (Qld) confirms that 'Caz Willis [C8] wasn't hallucinating in encountering a talking mushroom. In 1973, the Canberra Times reported that the inventor Arthur Breckenridge from Mudgee was in town for the inauguration of coin-operated talking mushrooms on vantage points across Canberra, but the one deployed on Red Hill broke down within a few hours. There was talk of relocating it to old Parliament House, but there was not mushroom inside.'
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