Maureen Donlon of Wagga Wagga has some listening advice for DJ Albo: “History repeating itself? I draw readers’ attention to the 1979 hit The Topical Song (to the tune of Supertramp’s The Logical Song) by the Barron Knights, which dealt with the oil crisis, caused by (shock horror) trouble in Iran. A reminder of how we dealt with fuel shortages back then; the odds and evens, rationing, the list is endless – just like those petrol queues were. Maybe the prime minister needs to do himself a favour and give it a listen.”
“As a septuagenarian retiree, I spend quite a lot of time doing boring and repetitive household tasks,” admits Stephanie Edwards of Leichhardt. “My husband is fairly sure AI will not take away my job.” That’s great, Stephanie. Any danger of said husband taking away said job?
Here’s one for the vulpologists from Warwick Farley of Roseville: “If the plural of ox is oxen, why isn’t foxen the plural of fox?”
“I wondered of the possibility that Column 8 and C8-ers were unintended social influencers when my local supermarket had a prominent front of store display for Iced Vo-Vo biscuits (C8) at 30 per cent off,” writes Lionel Latoszek of Long Jetty. “This was during the continuing discussion in C8.”
Suzanne Saunders of Wadeville reckons that Jürgen Klopp, “the head of global veneers in the Trivago ad (C8) certainly grates, but his offsider’s explanation that it compares prices from ‘multiple different sites’ really grinds my gears. That the chubby mate is the dupe just adds to the question of why anyone would want to go away with these two painfully smug guys in the first place.”
“This sign at a local construction site made me immediately think of The Day of the Triffids,” says George Zivkovic of Northmead – ‘Danger. Beware. Moving Plant’.”
“The strange quirks of humanity as exposed by Column 8 often surprise me,” opines Jennifer Whaite of Oatley. “To throw a formal wedding and ask the guests to dress in deep burgundy and chocolate (C8) is beyond anything I would have thought normal. But what really astounded me about that item was that the writer, Lyn Langtry, and her husband had bought a burgundy bow tie in the early 1970s. Fair enough. But beyond normal human behaviour – they not only remembered that they had bought it. They were able to find it!”
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