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What a sham. “My husband, Alan Reynolds, has led a life full of adventures, in addition to a distinguished career as an engineer,” said Kate Coates of Wangi Wangi. “He spent several winters in Antarctica in the 1970s, flew various aircraft and travelled around the subcontinent and Canada on a motorbike. It was all spectacular. Sadly, however, he has been wearing a ratty button-down cardigan (C8) for as long as I have known him. He claims this is because the zipper would snag on his long beard. I can live with it if he doesn’t wash it with a towel and it gets filthy. A ratty button-down cardigan is something a wife can’t live with!”
“‘Broke Finance Co’ (C8) makes me wonder if there are other similar businesses,” wrote George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “Seymour Spectacles, Lorne Mowers, Albury Undertakers, Euroa Boats, Manly Menswear and Homebush Merkins, for example.”
“John Hudson’s silly business names reminded Peter Moran of Oak Flats, and his “wannabe entrepreneur brother had always dreamed of starting a gambling company called ‘Responsible’ and a brewery called ‘Moderate’, thinking it would lead to his competitors using the slogans ‘Responsible Gambling’ and ‘Moderate Drinking’ in their ads to promote his business.” Not unlike a rock band calling itself Free Beer.
Joy Cooksey of Harrington opined that “the ‘Bankrupt Finance Company’ of 1753 has apparently chosen to sit out its days in the gallery of Come By Chance, while John Brown of Kionga said he had “received multiple emails from medical professionals dated 1 January 1753. This appears to be the default date in many of the schemes.”
Peter Pocock of Hornsby wrote: “‘The talk of bankruptcy’ and the other names reminded me of a guy I used to work with who said he was going to go on ‘Jeopardy’ because whenever he listened to the news there were always thousands of jobs on there.”
“Recently, an advertising expert told me that I would probably ‘get colds and flu my way,’” said Viv Munter of Pennant Hills. “When did those words become verbs? I really hope I can avoid ‘getting COVID my way.’”
Fools obsessed with watching the moon (C8) are not unique to the United States, as Peter Holt of Pokolbin attests: “Once, at the Court Hotel in Lithgow, two of our spirited guests went outside to watch the lunar eclipse. Unfortunately, it was overcast, but when they re-entered the bar, the television was showing footage of the eclipse from the Adelaide Trotters. They said, one to the other, ‘Good Lord, you’re such a fool, no wonder we can’t see it. The eclipse is in Adelaide.'”
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