When change couldn’t come soon enough.
“Needing to keep 5th class occupied with ‘busy work’ in December 1965, two months before decimal currency arrived, our teacher gave us a long division involving the old money,” recalls Bronwyn Bryceson of Mangerton. “We complained bitterly about the pointlessness of it, but he said you never know when you might need to use the process again. It’s been 58 years so far.” Stay patient, Bronwyn.
“Didn’t anyone at least go through the motions of trying to retrieve Andrew Taubman’s swallowed one-cent coin?” asks William Galton of Hurstville Grove. Speaking of going through the motions: “There seem to be serious, chronic gastrointestinal and/or urological ailments afflicting the staff of,” suggests Michael Fox of Taigum . “No sooner have Tony or Nate or Emma finished presenting their pieces than they have to rush off, stage left, presumably to the toilet. I can think of no other explanation for all this scurrying. Fortunately for continuity of the program, Michael and Lisa appear to be immune.
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