We can envisage Josephine Piper (C8) having issues offloading her parfait glasses, as it appears that folks belonging to a certain demographic already have a set, including Viv Mackenzie of Port Hacking: “I’ve got the parfait glasses and spoons, too. They were the de rigueur wedding gift in the 1960s.” Daniel Low of Pymble actually searched some out: “Parfait glasses and spoons are all the rage at my place since I bought six for my grandkids to enjoy ‘Old Fashioned Spiders’. Sorry, but I don’t have room for six more.”

“David Gordon (C8) wonders whether same day Herald contributors Rob Woof and Peter Woof are related,” notes Ian Lothringer of Whale Beach. “Maybe it’s worth asking are they from the same litter, or do they have a common pedigree?”

Before we start to stray, Rob Woof of South Hurstville has retrieved the pertinent family info: “I do appreciate the concerns that have been raised about the Woof family tree. I do have a brother named Peter, but he lives on the NSW Central Coast, not in Mollymook. I don’t know of any Peter Woof among my near relatives, but we may be more distantly related. Woof is a relatively uncommon name, but I do know that back in the days of phone books (remember them?), I was able to identify about half of the Woof entries in the Sydney directory as near relatives. I hope that sets a few minds at rest.”

“If the President were to paint the warships in his image (C8), as Peter Miniutti suggests, they would immediately be tagged as Trump’s Naval Oranges,” muses George Manojlovic of Mangerton.

“How does the robot who asks me if I’m a robot (C8) know whether I’m telling the truth?” asks Barry Riley of Woy Woy.

The concerns raised in the robotic thread by Paul Anlezark regarding his prosthetic tally had Wayne Duncombe of Lilyfield thinking that “no doubt Paul, as an erudite C8 contributor, would regard himself as more than the sum of his parts.”

Laurie Burns of Bligh Park asks if Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook (C8) could “please advise us of the response he got from his access to his MyGov email from support@seductiveseekers? Waiting with bated breath!”

While we’re not sure how that went, Allan has made contact to declare that “if nothing else, having the last word in C8 for 2025 will suffice, Happy New Year!”

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