A reader shares their opinions on various topics in this article, which is an opinion piece featuring letters to the editor from readers of a newspaper. The letter-writers offer humorous and lighthearted takes on everything from US President Trump's renaming of geographical locations to a personal anecdote about being lectured by Maurice Gibb after attending a music event as teenagers. Some letter-writers also share their experiences with pill-popping, including one who claims to use the opposite hand to open tablets to reduce dementia risk.
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Michael Johnston of Corlette, a resident of Australia, is amused by Trump's decision to rename parts of the world with American names, such as Unclesamoa and Unclesamistan. He thinks it's "intriguing" but wishes for more creative names like Yankee Chewing Guam or Southern Fried Türkiye. Meanwhile, Andrew Cohen of Glebe shares a humorous anecdote about the Bee Gees, who performed at the Easter Show in the past.
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“Trump’s patriotic re-naming of parts of the world is intriguing,” thinks George Manojlovic of Mangerton.
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Manojlovic → think → Mangerton
“I’m waiting for something more imaginative than Gulf of America or Lake America.
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I → wait → America
American Mayan Yucatán rolls off the tongue, as does Unclesamoa and Unclesamistan.
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Unclesamoa → roll → tongue
How about Yankee Chewing Guam or Southern Fried Türkiye?
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Yankee → chew → Guam
Londonald has a familiar ring to it, too.”
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Londonald → have → it
The Bee Gees’ Easter Show gig (C8), has notoriety, according to Andrew Cohen of Glebe: “I remember when a handsome young man about 17, brought my 15-year-old sister home to Pymble about 6pm from the Easter Show with his two young brothers in the back of his yellow FC Holden.
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man → have → Holden
He politely apologised to my scary fuming father, ‘My brothers and I had commitments’.
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brothers → apologise → commitments
Dad: ‘I know who you are Mr Gibb.
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you → know → ?
You’re one of those singers on Bandstand.
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You → ’re → Bandstand
How dare you bring my daughter home after dark.
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you → bring → dark
Maurice and Robin saw me watching from a window and their eyes were messaging me their alarm.
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eyes → see → alarm
My sister remains none too pleased about this.”
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sister → remain → this
Marjie Williamson’s pill-popping enquiry (C8) has flooded our mailbox to the extent that it’s challenging to find material on any other subject.
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it → pop → subject
It led Nola Scott of Wagga Wagga to say, “I’m right-handed, so I open tablets in a foil pack from the left, just as I write from the left.
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I → lead → left
I don’t think I could do it going backwards.”
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I → think → it
Michael Johnston of Corlette starts “each of my four foil sheets of tablets in a random spot and congratulate myself when they all finish on the same day.
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they → start → day
Being right-handed I open them with my left hand as an anti-dementia strategy.”
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I → open → strategy
All very instructive, but maybe it’s worth heeding Col Burns of Lugarno: “I may be ambidextrous or just disorganised, but if I noticed that I was selecting tablets other than at random, I’d assume that those tablets were treatment for my OCD.”
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tablets → ’ → OCD
“Lyndall Dawson succinctly and incisively describes the genius of Cathy Wilcox (C8),” says Robyn Cashman of Fernhill.
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Cashman → describe → Fernhill
It would make a great addition to every school’s modern history reading list.
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It → make → list
“A crime reporter recently referred to an investigating police squad as ‘infamous’,” notes Lea Grant of Lyneham (ACT).
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Grant → refer → Lyneham
“Does he know something we don’t or does he need a dictionary?
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he → know → dictionary
