Lance Rainey of Rushforth reports on a weighty issue: “An interesting bit from the Washington Post (December 31). Purchases of the weight-loss drug Ozempic by US consumers have caused an influx of US dollars into Denmark, strengthening the krone against the euro, leading the Danish central bank to reduce interest rates. Thus, obese Americans have managed to reduce Danish mortgage rates – if not their own waistlines.”
“Apropos of your insight into whom to consult on the question of a preference for long or short words, Glen Drew (C8), if you were to ask someone beset by Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, clearly you would, funnily enough, get the short answer,” suggests Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld).
Nola Tucker of Kiama reckons that rosellas are the cheekiest birds: “I watched one in our backyard nudge a mate with a ‘watch this’ expression as it waddled over to a young magpie, bit it deliberately, then walked back to its group with a very smug expression. Was it a dare?”
“I hereby affirm my New Year’s resolution,” declares Alan Phillips of Mosman, “to take a zero tolerance approach to intolerance.”
David Gordon of Cranebrook can’t help wondering whether the Humber Super Snipe (C8) acquired by the Dookie riflemen “was still ‘super’ after Dave Williams had finished with it?”
It’s a long way from the post-apocalypse to Play School. Dermot Perry of Mount Keira was channel surfing on Wednesday night and found Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome on NITV. Towards the end, Max encounters a band of children and one of them looked familiar. He was sure it was Justine Clarke at primary school age. Subsequent research confirmed that she was in the cast.
“In a perplexing case of apparent quantum entanglement, on the very same day that C8 mentioned drop bears, I was ice skating with ‘my’ orphans at a rink in a central Ukrainian city,” writes current resident Chris Keane. “They were all laughing and shouting in their Australian-accented English. A random Ukrainian teenager skated up to me and asked if I was Australian. When I replied in the affirmative, she demanded to know whether drop bears were real. Needless to say, I may have inadvertently killed any future tourism boom of Ukrainians visiting Australia.”
“Further to David George’s praise of Pat Cummins (C8), I propose that Australia’s captain be now known as Postman Pat,” says Ian McNeilly of Darlinghurst, “because he always delivers.”
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