"The more you eats the more you gets".
We were enjoying our roast pork with apple sauce at the Moruya Bowling Club when in walked a dead ringer for Bill Barnacle in "The Magic Pudding". "You can't tell him that", whispered Padma but I did, and it turned out we both were fans of Norman Lindsay.
Not that my book nerdiness always served me that well. I still remember a girl I tried to date just after I had come out to Australia in the 1960s. After a fumbled introduction and some awkward small talk, she asked me about the book that had had the greatest influence on my life, to which I replied, "Principles of Accounting, Part II". I never saw her again.
Speaking of which, I restrained myself today by buying only two books, "God is Not Great - The Case Against Religion" by Christopher Hitchens, and "The Sorrows of Empire - Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" by Chalmers Johnson. And then there were two - what? whoopee cushion? marked ANZ TAKE A SEAT . I guess they give them out to every new customer to soften the blow of the cost of the loan.
The things you find in Vinnies! Of course, as an ex-ANZ Bank Johnny from the 1960s I took them both, one for me and the other for another ex-ANZ Bank Johnny in Wollongong whom I hope to visit again soon.
