Short Rounds
Illawarra Mercury
Friday September 19, 1997
A snippet about funny bookmarks people leave in library books prompted a call from Elizabeth Whiteman, of Dapto, who found a tote ticket from an American race track in a new book she bought in Wollongong.
"The print was very faded but I could make out the horse was number two in race five so I phoned my son-in-law to put me $2 each way on a number two in race five in Sydney," Mrs Whiteman said.
The horse Kingston Shores won and earned Mrs Whiteman $7.
The question is, how did a tote ticket from America find its way into a new book?
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A northern suburbs hairdresser yesterday took the term "clean cut" to the outer limits when she gave a client's mane a squirt of Windex instead of water. The hairdresser whisked the bemused client off to the basin for the quickest shampoo on record.
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Ken, who recently moved to Bowral, isn't too enthused about the wildlife he inherited. He dug up a small patch of earth and counted 37 funnel webs charging at him. He is still at Bowral but the critters have been dispatched to funnel web heaven.
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A Wollongong lawyer disagrees with the assumption legal eagles spend all their money on expensive wine and fast cars. Most of his pay cheque last week went on his Internet bill. He unknowingly left it connected for three days.
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Exploitive commercialism: Teenagers flogging children's fairytale books in the Family Law Courts foyer while couples inside wrangle over who gets the kids.
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