The story of Leonid Rogozov eradicating his personal appendix (C8) is an city delusion, if Geoffrey Naughton of Newtown is to be believed: “As a earlier Antarctic expeditioner (Casey 1977), I can attest to the truth that expeditioners wouldn’t have to have their appendix eliminated. I don’t have the scar to show it.”
Cricket tragics would little doubt welcome a distraction from the carnage on the MCG this week and for that, we thank William Williams (C8) and his query on novel scoreboard combos. That mentioned, about 90 per cent of replies seek advice from “Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley” from the Perth Ashes Take a look at of 1979. Nonetheless, some others are fairly nice too. Owen Dally of Orange recollects that in Eighties grade cricket “Manly-Warringah had two first grade openers named Bush and Tuckerman. They have been the very best pair by a rustic mile.” The providing from Pat Rodgers of Gladesville can also be food-related: “In a match in South Africa in 1980, Allan Lamb was caught Alan Kourie bowled Clive Rice. [Better still, the competition was the Currie Cup – Granny] Lamb caught Kourie bowled Rice grew to become an iconic culinary scoreboard entry maybe solely surpassed by Prepare dinner caught Mustard bowled Onions when Kent performed Durham in 2007.”
Naturally, Column 8 statistician, Kersi Meher-Homji of St Ives, wished in on the motion: “Lamb bowled Butcher, Rose bowled Lillee, Holmes bowled Watson, Mann caught Serjeant bowled Choose, Chappell bowled Parson and Darling bowled Love.”
“Cricket has its Salt and Pepper (C8), and so did an organization I used to work for,” writes Anne Prepare dinner of Ermington. “Once I first began, there was a Mr Salt, and after some time we acquired a Mrs Pepper. Later, one other Pepper joined the corporate, so we had one Salt and two Peppers.”
Russell Murphy of Bayview says: “The Sydney to Hobart menu (C8) requires simplicity. Ours is usually breakfast meals, fruit, sandwiches, nibbles and, climate allowing, a sizzling night meal. Final 12 months, nonetheless, a fellow crew member with pursuits in meals manufacturing organized individually packaged pastas, curries and stews masking various tastes throughout a 13 individual crew. In a long time of ocean racing, I by no means ate higher.”