The national capital gets overexposed

September 27, 2021 â€" 9.00pm

“I notice that on the ACT government’s COVID-19 website, it has listed a business called Hello Sexy as an ‘exposure location’,” writes Kerry Jones of O’Malley (ACT).

Jack Dikian of Mosman is facing things with optimism: “I’d be interested to know what C8-ers plan to do with their masks once things go back to full-face normality. I know I’m keeping mine in case of another badly planned hazard reduction burn.”

“I’ve just been told that my 16-month-old grandson’s first word is ‘mask’, not one that the other children would ever have known at that age,” reports Jennifer Dewar of Double Bay.

We’d pretty much tuned out of the whistling discussion (C8), but this offering from Jeff McDermid of Broadbeach (Qld) is impressive on many levels: “Having to pause every 30 steps or so to suck in the scarce oxygen as I climbed the extra 300 metres from Everest base camp to Kala Patthar’s 5600 metres, which promised the best views of Mount Everest in all her glory, I thought I was hearing things as I was sure someone was whistling. Sure enough, not only did a guy stride past me, at pace, without a pause, he did so merrily whistling. I was in awe!”

“‘Cheerio’, Ray Alexander? Much too Anglo. ‘Cooee’ is the vernacular to challenge the US ‘shout out’,” reckons Alynn Pratt of Grenfell.

Barrie Drake of Hunters Hill likes to take things to the nth degree: “When those three leaders get together to sign off on submarines, will they reflect, I wonder, on their names all ending with the same letter â€" the nuclear letter? Come to think of it, a great many of the world’s leaders’ names that I’m familiar with share that same termination. I’m seeing Ardern, Macron, Putin, Imran Khan and even Kim Jong-un. Stop me before I get to the Premier!”

“I’m flabbergasted!” says Kerrie Wehbe of Blacktown. “The unofficial divide (C8) at the old M4 toll-gates at Silverwater? As a westie from birth, living in the eastern suburbs while at uni back in the 1980s, the line used to be Botany Road!” This is bordering on the ridiculous.

Talk about a fiery debate. “In a Delhi courtroom, gangsters, disguised as lawyers, opened fire and killed the defendant, a rival gangster. Police said the disguise consisted of wearing a suit. Parliament is full of men wearing suits. Should we be concerned?” asks Paul Duncan of Leura.

Column8@smh.com.au

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