RICHARD SMALL/ Add to your South of the Noon the following:
ANZAPA (Australian and New Zealand Amateur Press Association) is
bi-monthly, deadlines in August, October, December, February, April, June. Currently
there are about 18 members but the limit is 25. Minac is 6 pages every six months.
Dues of A$3.00 are payable every August 1st and pro rata if you join at any time
after that up until the following August when you too have to pay the full amount.
Official Bloody Editor {OBE) is John Foyster, 6 Cloves Street, South Yarra,
Victoria 3141, AUSTRALIA.
I see that I should have looked at your additions before I
did the above, but jet lag seems to be doing something to my powers of concentration
just now. However your ANZAPA information was a long way out so you can make use of
what I've written. Gary Mason hasn't been OBE for atleast three years. APA-NOVA
died when the Nova Mob went into recess because of lack of interest. For a while it
looked as if something might grow out of the weekly meetings Melbourne fandom holds
at Degraves Tavern but nothing came of it.
JOHN HERTZ/ Have you ever used non decimal currency? I just kinda remember Pounds,
Shillings and Pence -- there was the man from the travel agency here a
while ago {he had my tickets and I had the money he wanted but no way of getting the
money to him so he came and collected it) and in change he gave me something which
he referredto as a penny. Apart from not having heard the word used for the last
eight years it sounded incongruous because pennies are big brass objects about an
inch in diameter, or they were the last time I saw one. Anyhow, ignoring the
divergence, this is supposed to be a one word answer to your wondering if non decimal
money systems should use the money symbol as a separator. No.
Off hand I can't: see anything much more in there (you know what I mean by "there") to
comment on, not without straining the thought systems at the moment. Anyhow this is
my long locked forward to holiday and while thinking might be a good idea from time
to time, just to keep the systems in operation, it might be nice not to bother with
them for a little while.
Batter still it might be even nicer to get the grey boxes
that Tom has out sorted out for a bit of a play with. One can type masters any day.
When one arrival aboard an Air New Zealand DC 10 one is told all sorts of things by
the cabin staff. One of these things is that it is strictly forbidden to smoke in
the toilets. When one gets to them one finds similar inscriptions put all over the
place so that only a person who is blind and deaf would not know that they
couldn't smoke. Toilets on aeroplanes are masterpieces of design, they fit so much
into such a small space. Some wall cupboards are larger. Anyhow... When one is
seated one notices that right there in the middle of all the various holes and
dispensers is a little hole marked "ash tray".
Tom Digby owning this typer must have some effect on the person who is using it,
probably something he puts on the keys which is absorbed through the skin and effects
certain of the nervous system's functions.
The latest idea is about the compatability
of Australian and American objects. One can buy adaptors which change Australian
240 volts down to the US 110 or, I assume, the other way about. One has to call in
at the bank to get currency changed and so on and so on. Let me assure you that the
list is virtually, but not quite, endless. So when one is considering changing this
and getting an adaptor for that the question invariably arises, is an adaptor
neccassary for the sexual encounter of two conserving adults of these two different
countries. As of yet I don't know and it seems likely that I never will, but when
we went out to eat last night we arrived at the restaurant and as we walked in Tom
wondered if our. proteins vere compatible. Since they probably aren't some sort of
bio-chemical adaptor might be necessary for the successful mating of a Male
Australian and a Female American, at the other way around if you prefer.
Since we've
discovered that it seems to be one of the natural laws of the universe that most
switches, to be turned on, must be moved towards the North Star it seems highly
possible that all sorts of bio-chemical functions are controlled by forces eminating
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