“The inflation rate in Germany after World War I (C8) is the stuff of legends,” reports Ted Richards of Batemans Bay. “Factory workers were paid twice a day with their wives waiting at the factory gates at lunchtime to take the morning’s wages to buy whatever they could then because the prices would have risen by dinner time. It might need a wheelbarrow full of banknotes to buy a loaf of bread but if you encountered a robber, he would tip the banknotes out of the barrow and steal it instead.”
Switching conflicts, Tony Bennett of Broke writes: “If you can remember eating fried bread (C8) during World War II, Barrie Restall, one assumes that you must be a proudly entrenched octogenarian. Clearly, injecting goose fat ‘straight into your heart’ is not nearly as bad as the pundits suggest it is.”
Warren Menteith of Bali remembers the butcher adding a pound of lard to the meat order: “The smell and anticipation as Mum reduced and added it to the dripping tin. The wonder of that tin. Maybe an empty Sunshine powdered milk can with a strainer on top. It never ran out. Everything got added. Excess fat, pan drippings and it was reused and recycled. Bugger the stock pot, this has it all. Toast with soup? Toast with hot, well accumulated dripping kills it.”
The handwriting experts are coming from everywhere with an opinion of The Donald’s designation. Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne reckons “Trump’s signature (C8) is almost identical to the way my granddaughter ‘writes’ her name. She has just turned three.” Similarly, Alan Nicholas of Sandringham thinks it “looks like when someone is writing and forgets the spelling so just fakes it.”
Finally, we have a signatory as opposed to an autograph hunter: “I represented Australia in basketball at the 1956 Olympics and on one of those heady days in downtown Melbourne, I signed a schoolgirl’s autograph book (C8),” recalls Ken Finch of Holroyd. “Many years later in Sydney, my cousin was amazed to see my name in his wife’s old autograph book.” For the record, Australia scored a couple of wins before fading in the play-offs to finish 12th overall.
Dick Pollitt’s interview (C8) of a rather indecisive candidate was amusing, but it has raised other questions among the demographic with both Tony Krahe of Ermington and Viv Mackenzie of Port Hacking asking “did he get the job?”
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