While driving from Pod Bay to San Jose.
“We live in an old house with a verandah,” writes Allan Thomas of Lochinvar. “Last week, on the two days the Hunter had its earthquakes, an echidna waddled up and down the verandah before ducking underneath it. In all our years living here we had never seen an echidna. Is this a case of a seismical echidna?”Bruce Moxon of Toongabbie was wondering if lyricist Hal David meant it as a metaphor “that the singer was somehow emotionally distant? Also, how hard is it to find San Jose? It’s on the map.
Bruce was feeling pretty pleased with this prognosis and decided to dig deeper: “Whoa! According to Google Maps, it’s 24 hours by car from Tulsa to San Jose! Coincidence?” The tyranny of long-distance songwriting doesn’t end there: “I’m driven to despair when I hear the Ray Brown & the Whispers hit,” says Mark Fuller of Armidale: “This bloke walks 20 miles to see his girl and returns every day. Let’s say the average walking speed is three miles an hour, so that’s a seven-hour trip, meaning 14 hours a day walking. Throw in some sleep and it’s obvious he doesn’t have a job.
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