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Australiana Abroad. Built in Singapore, it was shipped in 1987 aboard a carrier ship to John Brewer Reef,christian louboutin shoes, in the Great Barrier Reef off Townsville, to be the world’s first
floating hotel. It had 200 rooms, tennis courts, a swimming pool, gym and sauna. However, financially speaking, it went bottom up, and in August 1989 its remnants (minus courts
and pool) were towed to Vietnam.Intrepid travel writer David McGonigal, of Roseville, reports: "I flew over it during the 18 months it was at John Brewer
Reef. I later missed it while it was the Saigon Floating Hotel from 1990 to 1995. However, I finally stayed on it last month while visiting the Kumgang, or Diamond Mountain,
region of North Korea. It offers the main accommodation in the area and still features Australian electrical powerpoints and decor unchanged since the days of the Queensland
white shoe brigade."
Crime wave hits Tamworth. Lyn Brown, of that city, sends us an item from the Northern Daily Leader: Car Vandalised A Lake Keepit State Recreational vehicle was vandalised on
Saturday evening after an unknown offender caused minor damage to the windscreen wiper blades. The incident occurred between 10pm and 10.30pm on Saturday when the park ranger
left the vehicle after parking.
Endless news about that Chilean town (Column 8, yesterday). Guy Cox, of Sydney University, reports:An old man of Antofagasta/Had a wife who could only cook pasta/She refused to
cook chilli/Which maddened him till he/Put her head in the oven and gassed her.
Wildlife in the suburbs (Column 8, Monday). Big yawns up St Ives way. "We need pedestrian crossings for wombats here in St Ives," writes Sharyn Wrenford. "I have twice seen
wombats meandering across our road in the last year. I have also sighted a wallaby on Eastern Arterial Road. A virtual wildlife sanctuary!" Gillian Hamilton: "I was driving down
Hunter Avenue, near St Ives High, when my seven-year-old daughter, Laura, yelled out: `Stop the car. I’ve just seen an echidna.’ We watched a baby echidna waddle from the school
grounds to bushland. Something for Laura to tell at news at school."
An abacus, please, for That Tabloid newspaper. Patrick Dittrich, of Chatswood, reading it yesterday, found an article about breath-testing: In September, 58 out of 10,000 random
breath tests . . . tested positive. Of those, 36 were men and 17 women. The rest were?
There is no escape from them.At his workplace, Paul Nicol, of Kensington, was allocated a new email address on Monday. The next morning he got the first email to his new address
a scam offer from "Nagail Older, son of the late, former director of finance in Sierra Leone",christian louboutin heels;, with an offer of a paltry $US10 million of his father’s embezzled fortune, etc.
There’s no pleasing some people, says Mark Johnson, of Hurlstone Park. "An ad in the window of a Dulwich Hill real estate agent is for a home unit which boasts that it has `too
large bedrooms’."
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