The fame name game (C8) has a number of C8-ers standing up for themselves, and rightly so: “That other Richard Branson more famous than me?” questions Richard Branson of Engadine. “Surely not! He hasn’t made a contribution to Column 8 that has been printed that I am aware of.” Gillian Anderson of Northmead files this: “To the many people who have informed he over the years that I share my name with a famous actor, I reply, ‘I’m the good-looking, talented one’.” And David Morrison of Springwood notes that “someone with the same name as I was the Australian of the Year in 2016. I’m just an Australian of many years.”
“Aidan Cuddington really had me puzzling over whether I shared my name with others of greater fame when, two items later, there I was!” writes George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “The St George oven – warm-hearted, reliable, handy in the kitchen, and, being relatively hirsute, my wife often says I look a bit like a griller.”
“What a pity the St George NRL team isn’t as reliable as Mary Billing’s St George oven, although both have seen a good baking of late.” Commiserations Peter Miniutti of Ashbury.
Janet Halliday of Lindfield laments: “My Maytag washing machine kept spinning a heavy load for 40 years but died today. Sadly missed.”
“BarJo calls wind-farms swindle factories,” notes Les Shearman of Darlington. “One wonders what he’ll call data centres when the (sh)IT hits the fan?”
“I cannot reveal the location of the music camp I have taught at for many years,” writes Anonymous. “Nor can I reveal my name, as I, several of the guilty, and the innocent victim, still teach at this camp. But I can confess that in the late 1990s, for reasons lost in the mists of time and cheap whisky, several staffers relocated the entire room (C8), bed and belongings, of another staff member to the showers, and set it up there. Our temporary absence from the pub went unnoticed by the victim, who slept in the showers, I believe. Younger staff members have heard this tale but consider it an urban myth. It definitely is not, I was there and was an enthusiastic participant!”
Lionel Latoszek of Long Jetty writes: “Monday’s C8 headline ‘The USA has always given us the ships’ (C8) reminded me that the US built some of our warships which are of the Frigate Class.”
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