Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO “Not only am I an old coot (C8), but myself and many mates, back in the 70s, were card-carrying members of the Australasian Order of Old Bastards.” says Greg Mudie of Dungog. “The rules of
“Not only am I an old coot (C8), but myself and many mates, back in the 70s, were card-carrying members of the Australasian Order of Old Bastards.” says Greg Mudie of Dungog. “The rules of the order stipulated that when a companion greeted him with the phrase ‘How are you doing, you old bastard?’ he was asked to present his card. The punishment for not doing so was to shout out a round of drinks. I fondly remember the look of horror when we challenged our partner, KO, when he emerged from the waves at Freshwater Beach, naturally without a card.”
“I remember the ANU treasure hunt well, having been a student there in the 1960s,” says Stein Boddington of St Clair. “Offenders were strongly advised to return the mace to Parliament House before anyone noticed it was missing. Drysdale’s paintings from the War Memorial were hung and properly guarded. I suppose the sign outside the Civic Center police station was eventually returned, and the busload of Japanese tourists were allowed to continue their holiday. Those were the days!”
“My student sister and her boyfriend showed up at our house in the mid-1950s,” recalls Judy Jackson of Orange. “They borrowed our little daughter as the only obviously pure candidate they knew who qualified as the required virgin!”
“A recent comment on wine descriptions (C8) reminded me of a scene at a dinner party where the host brought out a bottle and claimed it had been sitting in storage for 10 years,” writes Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest. “A guest, who knew a little about wine, was asked for his opinion: ‘Well, I would save it for 10 others, if it still doesn’t work, I’ll save it for the garbos at Christmas.’”
It’s been a while since our resident poet Jim Dewar of Davistown regaled us with the day’s news in verse, so what better time than during the FIFA World Cup? Some football colleagues from Brussels,
Connoisseur of tough football confrontations,
He interrupted Trump’s plan,
And the dream of his team,
Flexing his football muscles.
I couldn’t help but notice the name of the ship that appears on the Herald article by Shane Wright, titled ‘Less pain at the gas pump, but more pain on grocery bills,'” offers Brooke Walker of Blackmans Bay. “The unfortunately named ARSHIT. “I think it sums up the mood that exists in the Strait of Hormuz right now.”
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