“Peter McNair (C8) suggests that we introduce a new Olympic event in Brisbane featuring two riders on the one skateboard,” notes Bob Phillips of Cabarita. “I’m afraid such a move would play right into the hands of the Indonesians, who have been doing this for years in the backstreets of Jakarta. In fact, getting numerous people into a small space is an art form in Asia. We have seen six on a motor scooter hooning along Jalan Fatmawati, a major thoroughfare in Jakarta. A small baby was in a bucket! The Chinese also would be contenders. One of the stage shows we saw in China featured fourteen girls, with umbrellas, on one bike. Perhaps we should just ask the Fox family what they would like us to include.”
Gail Morris of Chermside West (Qld) can add to Lionel Latoszek’s lexicon of locally sourced events for the Games of the XXXV Olympiad, too: “Brisbane 2032 (C8) must have an event called the Marathong.”
“I nearly drove off the road hearing a radio report regarding an NRL incident,” writes Peter Sweeney of Balmain. “The player who claimed he had been bitten on the nose during the game fronted the media but remained tight-lipped.”
Don MacLeod of Dalmeny is seeking a translation from his past: “At home in my young days, if my father wanted a seat close to the open fire he used to say: ‘Let your father see the rabbit.’ Does anyone know what this means?”
Progressive rock makes another appearance on Chris Wilkinson’s stereophonic challenge (C8), with Dermot Perry of Mount Keira highlighting “the early pioneering work of Pink Floyd; Interstellar Overdrive zooming back and forth at the end, Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast, Dark Side of the Moon, and many more. Leaves the Moody Blues in the shade!” Michael Britt of MacMasters Beach adds that “for anyone driving in Germany in the seventies, Autobahn by Kraftwerk captured the sound of being overtaken by a Porsche perfectly.”
Of course, it’s not all in one ear, and out the other, as Alynn Pratt of Grenfell will attest: “Lovers of orchestral music know that the best stereo albums are those where every instrument stays in place. Left, right, up, down, backward and forward.”
Paul Duncan’s Superquiz (C8) southpaw data was revealing, but, on the other hand, he “has to accept that we mollydookers punch well above our weight,” suggests Warren Menteith of Bali.
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