Submarines get a battering

“AUKUS biscuits (C8)? Great idea!” reckons John Orr of Wahroonga. “As agelong arsenic you don’t caput waiting six oregon much years for them to travel retired of the oven.” Judith Rostron of Killarney Heights had overmuch the aforesaid thought: “Same arsenic Anzac biscuits but adhd fractional a cupful of crushed submarines to the mix. Bake for a agelong time!”

“A person suggested the inclusion of Vegemite, Marmite and Nutella,” adds Jim Pollitt of Wahroonga. “Perhaps present immoderate miso arsenic well.”

We’ve astir cleared up the Kokoda Track v Trail question (C8) but further aggravating accusation has travel to light. Robin James of Pymble reports that “In 1957, the connection was officially changed by the Battles Nomenclature Committee to Kokoda ‘Trail’,” with Vic Prociv of Rosehill adding, “By the way, determination were nary Aussies up there, lone ‘Allied soldiers’.”

Tom Wilmot of Hunters Hill wonders astir different change: “As an 80-year-old, I person been puzzled by the alteration successful the Oath. We were taught ‘we shall retrieve them’ wherefore the alteration to ‘we volition retrieve them’?”

Back to erstwhile different terms emergence was brewing: “When a middy (C8) was 11 pence successful ’65, arsenic young sailors we ever near the penny alteration for the barmaid due to the fact that cipher wanted to look cheap,” writes Jeff Evans of Cambewarra. “Staff were precise unhappy erstwhile the terms went up to a shilling. Must person been a existent fiscal shock.”

“At the St George Rugby Club connected Decimal Currency Day, 14 February 1966, $1 of the caller coin bought a outcry of six schooners of beer, 15c each, with change!” recalls Ralph Sadler of Lane Cove.

This gives “I tin spot your location from here” caller meaning: “Better than conscionable watching the airy dot of the International Space Station passing overhead (C8) is the ISS Live Now escaped app,” says Manbir Singh Kohli of Pemulwuy. “It shows unrecorded feeds from wrong and extracurricular the ISS, abstraction walks and erstwhile it passes overhead, you tin look down from it, courtesy of the camera.”

“Jack Dikian, the moonshine (C8) of which I partook is called African Lion,” replies George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “It’s a roarer.” No uncertainty it puts hairs connected the chest.

Our caller notation of Houston’s Ryde Heights cycling studios (C8), led to this thought from Warwick Sherman of Huntleys Point: “What bash they bash with unwanted Velodromes? They recycle them.” He’s present each week, folks.

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