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Whispering Gums motel in Newstead, I can just imagine the old bloke at reception.

There is nothing like the natural resources available worldwide to build all the items needed, like electric cars and batteries, in the “net zero” proposals. It is all a fantasy.

I think if there are two grooms you are supposed to call one of them the bride.

The tree was a big landmark for my family on our annual holiday journey to Sydney.

In Broken Hill we used to say "more front than Pellew and Moore", the local department store. In Wagga it was "Hunters on the Hill and Spears around the corner". And don't forget "While I live I grow", the Anthony Horden slogan and the Port Jackson fig in Camden, that was poisoned.

Have used them on WA charters as a passenger when we had an Esky full of cans in the back on the way home. A couple of decades ago.

How about Nahpoo? Or napoo. As ‘applied universally to anybody or anything’, deriving from il n’y a plus [or il n’y en a plus]

Said Hanrahan was written by Father Hartigan, an RC priest at Narrandera, whose pen name was John O'Brien. It has always amused me that the names he used in the poem are family names from the Narrandera - Lockhart district.

A slang term that I like is toodleoo. It is a mis-hearing of the French À tout à l'heure ! meaning "see you soon". I can't think where to use it in a website though.

Onetrack got it right first time. The answer is: c. The speed of the water depends on the pressure head, or depth below the free surface. The pressure heads for both outlets are the same, so water speeds are the same. Or we can look at the problem this way: Move the spout around and attach it to the hole. If the water comes out of the downspout fastest it would overwhelm the current from the hole and force its way back into the bucket at B, so you would have a perpetual motion machine with water running from T to B. If the water comes out of the bottom hole fastest you also have perpetual motion with water flowing the other way. To avoid perpetual motion (and conserve energy), the water flowing out of both the hole and the downspout must have equal speeds.

I have sat in her chair, as have thousands of others. No mention of lantana..

On a horse, topless.

This was a favourite question of the noted hydrologist, George J. Pissing, and is still often asked of graduate students during oral exams. Consider a bucket of water with two holes through which water is discharged. Water can be discharged from a hole “B” at the bottom of a bucket which is some distance “d” below the water surface, or it can be discharged from a downspout which starts at the top “T” and has its opening at the same distance “d” below the water surface. If we neglect any friction effects the water coming out of hole “B” has a) more speed than the water coming out of the down spout b) less speed than the water coming out of the downspout c) the same speed as the water coming out of the downspout.

He had a form of blood cancer. Died with Covid.

Paddy took 2 stuffed dogs to the Antiques Roadshow. The presenter said, "This is a very rare set, produced by the celebrated Johns Brothers taxidermists who operated in London at the turn of the last century. Do you have any idea what they would fetch if they were in good condition?" "Sticks!" Paddy replied

Octave I am very sorry to hear it. You have been a voice of reason and rationality.

They are mass debaters.

What a wedgie!

When I studied engineering there was a formula for super elevation of the outside rail. I thought it was done for all railway tracks on curves. As you say, there has to be an assumed speed but even goods trains would need it.

Yes, I am regularly shouted to from the other end of the house and don’t understand a word. I don’t do that, why do they?

Climate refugees? So has there been a measurable change in climate? Tassie has always had a better climate than the mainlanders gave it credit for.

A dinar was a shilling. It was a coin from the Middle East of about the same size that the troops were familiar with.

Ask your mother for sixpence to see the tall giraffe. Pimples on its back and pimples on its Ask your mother ......etc

My ceramic ducks are hanging in the shed. I made a duck hunting scene out of them with the remains of an old shotgun.