For the sake of the sound of sensation throughout the nation, Geoff Gilligan of Coogee wish to thank Herald tradition scribe Karl Quinn: “Your article on Invoice Oddie (July 30 ) answered a query that comes into my head about each decade. It regarded a skit on a TV present that featured a pirate radio station that had just one report. I hadn’t been in a position to bear in mind this system. Karl’s tribute talked about that it was from an episode of The Goodies. The tune was A Stroll within the Black Forest (aka Eine Schwarzwaldfaht), by Horst Jankowski.” Granny all the time wished they’d made good on Graeme’s scheme for a Pirate Church of England.
“I share Helen Lewin’s frustration with the dubbing of English movies (C8),” says Elizabeth Savage of Hughes (ACT). “In Italy within the ’60s, my pal and I had been delighted to seek out the newest Doris Day/Rock Hudson film enjoying domestically. Think about our disappointment after we found they may each communicate fluent Italian.”
Paul Taylor of Winston Hills wish to nominate “the Water-Rats or, in case you favor, the Rakalis because the title for the Australian Underwater Hockey Staff (C8). The rakali is the scale of a small possum, with a distinctly white-tipped tail that’s barely shorter than the physique. They’re properly tailored to their aquatic way of life and use their massive, partially webbed hind ft as paddles whereas their thick tail operates like a rudder. Fantasy has it that they’ve a particular cry when travelling via murky water – ‘We’re the Rakali!’”
“One of many Australian groups ought to, after all, be referred to as The Down-Unders,” provides Helen Howes of Collaroy.
Sticking with sport, the smart Chris Commens of Rosebery reckons “we may be grateful that Victoria piked out of funding the Commonwealth Video games. The medal tally is so bountiful that if held right here, this is able to have been seen merely as large home-team benefit. Department stacking of a unique order. Credibility is fortunately restored by competing abroad.”
Peter Miniutti of Ashbury thinks “you understand when you’re outdated (C8) once you go to a museum or gallery and ask for a senior’s low cost and aren’t requested for proof of age. Surprisingly sufficient, although, when standing on public transport, there is no such thing as a recognition of my age by youthful commuters providing their seat.” Nola Tucker of Kiama says it’s merely when “your youngest little one factors out that every one your youngsters are grandparents”.
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