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pmccarthy

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  1. If that was during the Covid panic, the other thing missing was the hordes of Asian tourists driving badly.
  2. In Vic our electricity grid is about to be overwhelmed by excess solar power. Maybe tomorrow. It will be funny if the grand final coverage drops out.
  3. We export raw minerals mainly because Australia self-imposes industrial, environmental and "net zero" regulations that other countries don't have. I don't see that changing. As everyone knows, we have (for example) the coal, iron ore and fluxes to make iron and steel and once did at several places, now the remaining one at Whyalla is threatened with closure. Closure will be blamed on costs, but we have the cost environment we have chosen.
  4. Selfies! Idiots!
  5. In 1959 I paid 1/- for a piece of plywood to make a boomerang. I bought it at the side door of FA Stowe & Co in North Albury. I still have the boomerang and can provide photographic evidence if required.
  6. To solve a relationship for x these days means posting it online.
  7. We had two good secondhand shops nearby. 5hey have both gone upmarket into collectibles and antiques.
  8. In an earthquake you could see the Gherkin jerkin'.
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  12. I have a part of my body that I can raise by thought alone,
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  15. But he does pull the wool over their eyes.
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  17. The old term “slinging mullock” means criticising or abusing someone. I grew up with it.
  18. Could have been worse if the n was a c.
  19. Bill and Ben were on Australian TV too. I don’t remember whether they were in my childhood or that of my own kids, but I remember watching them.
  20. It could also be the crack of dawn.
  21. Those of us who studied through UNSW around 1970 learned FORTRAN 4 using the Watfor compiler, which I think was created by one of their researchers. We then moved on to BASIC. Fortunately, at the time there were not many languages in use for the non-machine language peasants.
  22. Wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alley.
  23. No, its moll asses. Much more attractive.
  24. My hire car in the USA would say "bear right" but I never saw it.
  25. I was in a museum yesterday (Maldon machinery museum) and saw a HP9825, a model that I used to program in HP modified BASIC in 1976. Made me feel old.
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