Living in the midst of a slightly failed society has given Greg King of Springwood cause to recall that “in the first episode of the sixth season of The West Wing , a props department error saw the president’s helicopter, Marine One, with ‘Untied States of America’ emblazoned on its side. Was this presciently Freudian?”

“My wife has suggested to me that we should have regular alcohol-free days,” says Nicolas Harrison of Evans Head. “Try as I might, I cannot find a single bottle in the cellar that I didn’t pay for.”

In an effort to start a new thread, Tony Hunt of Gordon writes: “My grandmother, while sewing a dress in Moree a long time ago, put the treadle Singer sewing machine needle firmly through her finger. Unable to free it, she wheeled the machine, with her finger well attached,

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