"Yesterday morning, two yellow-tailed black cockatoos enjoyed breakfast on our banksia tree. Bushfire refugees?" wonders Suzanne Howes of Gladesville.
We have Joye! Col that is. The man himself has been in touch to set the record straight: “At Festival recording studio, 5.30pm Friday. Everyone had gone home except Col Joye, the Joy Boys and the engineer, Robert Iredale. All offices locked and empty. Working on a song titled Oh Yeah Uh Huh. Couldn’t get the drum sound we wanted. Iredale suggested something like a typewriter clicking sound. Somehow, one of the offices let us in and we borrowed a Remington typewriter. John Bogie, our drummer, played the machine. Lousy typist but the click worked. However, every time the carriage had run through, the bell dinged and the clunk to get it back NEVER suited the song. Placing the carriage against the wall it went nowhere. No dings. No clunks. Same two keys and a hole in the roller gave us a number one record. Bogie was never offered a job as a typist. PS, we put the typewriter back and locked the office. No office girl involved. That was another time!”
"The term 'stakeholders' has become popular with bankers and their ilk when referring to clients," writes Martin Field of Noosa Heads (Qld). "But whenever I hear it, I picture the end of a typical vampire movie where the ravening mob is on its way to kill the bloodsuckers in Count Dracula’s crumbling castle." Well, you got the bloodsuckers part right.
Doug Richards of Tamarama can go one better than someone playing themselves on film: “British actor Richard Todd served with the Parachute Regiment in WWII. He took part in the June 6, 1944 invasion of Europe. In the movie The Longest Day, there is a scene in which the character he is playing, Major John Howard, is spoken to by another actor playing the role of Richard Todd, which must have been a little surreal.”
John Hallahan of Tempe says that in the very same film “the piper leading the charge of Lord Lovat's commandos on the assault of the Orne River bridge was the piper Bill Millen from the actual wartime assault”.
“I thought about putting money into the joint venture that Mike Millard referred to,” says Michael Sparks of Braddon (ACT). “But after reading the prospectus, it was clear they were only after token investors.”
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