\u201cThe spectacular photo in the Herald of two humpback whales simultaneously breeching made me think that there should be a name for it,\u201d muses Richard Volzke of North Ryde. \u201cMaybe a \u2018camel breech\u2019?\u201d Nice one, and while we\u2019re considering this, big props to our photographic editor Danielle Smith, who captured pair in full flight.<\/p>\n
Janice Creenaune of Austinmer is well aware of the politician\/pet dynamic (C8): \u201cMy youngest son, living in Brooklyn during Trump\u2019s initial term, owned a small stuffed Trump doll. Unfortunately, his rescue dog (a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever called Murray) nearly destroyed it. While visiting, I dutifully and carefully sewed up the doll and continued to stuff it. It was the only toy Murray \u2018went for\u2019 but it kept me busy while visiting (over and over again). I\u2019m not sure of its status during the current presidential term.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the federal government now having an anti-Islamophobia envoy and an anti-Semitic envoy, is it time we also had an anti-Septic envoy?\u201d asks Mark Pearce of Springwood. \u201cAs I have noticed an increasing dislike of Yanks since Donald Trump started attacking the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noted sideshow tragic, David Prest of Thrumster, feels the need to correct fellow salt, Andrew McCarthy (C8): \u201cTo redress and end the misconceptions by \u2018sprog\u2019 McCarthy (1973 entry into HMAS Nirimba) about my \u2018rat-like\u2019 ability to climb drainpipes and to maintain the dubious honour of those fellow climbers from the Nirimba, I was a late developer in that \u2018gymnastic\u2019 ability.\u201d<\/p>\n
James White of Beveridge thinks the phrase requires more of a nautical vibe: \u201cLike a rat up a hawser more precisely, or a rat up a backspring?\u201d<\/p>\n
More on the folly of the European car (C8), this time, from Kerrie Wehbe of Blacktown. \u201cLast week, while driving our old Toyota to drop it off for repairs, I followed my husband, who drove ahead in our new MG so he could bring me home. I didn\u2019t know the route, but I knew when he was going to turn, as the wipers came on every time. He reported later that the sight of me laughing in his rearview mirror didn\u2019t help matters.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cMy late father also confused Aldi and Audi,\u201d says William Galton of Hurstville Grove. \u201cHe would also enjoy a roast of the day at his club\u2019s Calvary and when my daughter completed Year 12, asked her how she went in her HCF.\u201d<\/p>\n
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