At Least It Stays On The Tracks ...
Illawarra Mercury
Thursday August 10, 2000
Everyone can associate with losing a $2 coin. Its size poses a real problem and once you lose it it's finders keepers.
But one young lady has worked out a solution to the problem.
While visiting her grandmother in Fairy Meadow recently she lost an aforementioned coin.
Despite searching high and low it was nowhere to be found.
Two weeks later her grandfather sniffed it out. And it was a $2 coin with a difference. It was easily identifiable - snugly fitted in a blue plastic clip with the number 14 on it.
When grandma informed her granddaughter she had found her $2 coin she asked her if she could identify it.
She could and it was returned without a finders fee.
``I wonder if I will be around when she has saved her first million, and what sort of clip she will use to hold it," Grandma mused.
Her grandfather now calls her Macee McScrooge.
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A Corrimal woman, experiencing computer problems after her internal modem packed it in, was forced to buy an external modem for her PC.
Being a poor university student she had to hit up the Bank of Mum and Dad for a loan.
Later that evening her father called to talk to his daughter about the purchase, but her female flatmate answered the phone.
After some idle chit-chat the man said: ``So I hear Suze's internal modess (female hygiene product) has blown up."
There was dead silence before the embarrassed Dad quickly handed over the phone to his wife and she and the flatmate had a good chuckle at the red-faced father's Freudian slip.
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The Illawarra Mercury advertising department decided to follow the advice of one of its own - advertising guru John Singleton - and support the Make-a-Wish foundation this week.
Each time someone swears they are required to put money in the swear jar. All funds raised help to grant wishes to sick children.
The Mercury's advertising office had made a substantial contribution at last count, with 20 required each time a swear word is muttered.
Helen Ford Coburn, who has a reputation for being somewhat of a quiet achiever, was up to $2.20 but she is well behind bolter Belinda Green.
Rumour has it Belinda may have to ask the IMB for a loan before the week is out.
Advertising real estate man Bob Rose is leading the blokes.
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Oli from Farmborough Heights is a big Sydney Roosters fan.
He was at a work function on Saturday night and couldn't get near a TV screen for love nor money so he focused on the drinking side of things instead.
Towards the end of the night, he was informed by a reasonably reliable sports journalist mate of his that the Roosters had flogged Parramatta and were through to the NRL grand final qualifier.
Oli crowed to anyone within earshot that his beloved Roosters had got up.
He then proceeded on a number of occasions to deafen all and sundry with his infamous, high-decibel ``cock-a-doodle-doo" calls. After arriving home in the wee small hours, drunk and in a festive mood, he switched on the telly and tuned in to the final minutes of the pay TV replay.
He could not believe his eyes when the score showed Parramatta ahead 32-8 with a couple of minutes remaining.
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