Sports cars. What’s the point?

There were aggregate firsts connected Decimal Day (C8) for Ron Wicks of Manly: “February 14, 1966 was a pleasant time for maine erstwhile I bought the archetypal caller MGB sold connected that time utilizing the caller money. Money I’d earned moving for a twelvemonth astatine Mount Isa mines.”

“I stock Don Bain’s (C8) lament,” muses David Harrison of Winmalee. “Give radical contiguous 2.54cm, and they’ll instrumentality 1.609km!”

In respect to recovering Andrew Taubman’s 1 cent coin (C8), George Manojlovic of Mangerton thinks Jo Rainbow’s poker instrumentality mentation is simply a bully 1 “and I reckon doubling the steaks would guarantee a hefty return”.

Maybe it’s clip for change: “After our four-year-old lad swallowed a $2 coin, we were assured by our doc that if we monitored the combined forces of gravity and peristalsis, we would soon beryllium afforded a afloat refund,” says Col Burns of Lugarno. “He added that nary follow-up consultation would beryllium indispensable unless the effect was a dollar, a 50, 2 20s and a 10.”

Barry Lamb of Eastwood reckons that “Merilyn McClung is reasoning not of ‘drop cakes’ but alternatively of ‘jam drops’, a antithetic driblet entirely. They don’t person a stone barroom basal but alternatively a smooth, circular biscuit base. The champion indentation for the jam is made by the creaseless circular extremity of a vintage bone-handled breadstuff and food knife.”

“My lone acquisition with stone cakes was successful the aboriginal ’70s astatine Berala Public,” recalls Suzanne Saunders of Wadeville. “They were dry, moundy things, scant with sultanas and to beryllium wholly avoided for a custard tart. If they weren’t called ‘drop cakes’ they surely should’ve been.”

Word of the Week present with Robert Niven of Aranda (ACT): “‘Primeministersplain’, abbreviated signifier ‘primeminisplain’. It seems to beryllium an affliction for respective incumbents.”

It could beryllium clip for Jannette Greenwood of Lilyfield to acquisition a lottery ticket: “My daughter-in-law, Corinne, and I speech regular Wordle results aft making definite that we’ve some done it. Thursday, aft sending, disorder and past shock, we’d some written CRIME, SPICE, SLICE. What are the odds?”

“Niki Savva, our favourite Herald journalist, has travel up with the connection ‘catastrophise’ to picture the activities of the absorption leader,” notes Nola Tucker of Kiama. “My machine and the Oxford English Dictionary don’t hold that it’s a verb, truthful possibly we could compromise by lone utilizing it erstwhile referring to Peter Dutton?”

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