“It was sad to read that a leading fashion house is having business problems, even following a shake-up last year when a new role of ‘co-deputy chief executive’ was created,” notes Barbara Rogers of Freshwater. “Perhaps it will help if they do as a shareholder has suggested and have things professionally ‘managerialised’.” Col Burns of Lugarno is familiar with demonyms (C8) getting the chop: “When questioning our Year 8 class about the name given to residents of the French capital, our language teacher looked willing to inflict Madame Guillotine when, without hesitation, my mate Steve replied ‘Parasites, Miss’.
” “A demonym with a difference,” claims Barry Wooldridge of Harden. “The residents of Harden-Murrumburrah (or should that be Murrumburrah-Harden?) are known to many as the Hyphenates.” It would appear that Janice Creenaune and her dad drew the short straw with their acuity tester (C8), if the experience of Toni Lorentzen of Fennell Bay is anything to go by: “While in hospital, my late father, a noted leftie, was asked during testing who the current prime minister was.
He replied ‘That BASTARD’ [We’ll let you guess who was in office at the time]. The tester knew exactly who Dad was referring to, and he was passed on that item.” There are enforcers, however.
Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne “was once asked during a fundraiser quiz: ‘In the play Hamlet , who is Yorick?’ I answered, ‘Hamlet’s father’s court jester.’ I was.
