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My first job out of high school was as a car detailer at a country Ford dealership when the XK Falcon was first released. Left after about 3 months to join the bank.

Like Arte Johnson as the letch and Ruth Buzzi as the frump in Rowan and MArtin's Laugh In. The letch sidles up to the frump and asks "Do you believe in the Hereafter? Then you know what I'm here after."

Side tracking but related. The Monaco Grand Prix in the late stages was halted because the bitumen on the track started to break up and cause a pot hole early this morning.

This one is not recent, but is noteworthy. Actress Catherine O'Hara died in January this year. She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition in which the heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions. She had an extensive film career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_O'Hara

Our local Reject Shop was recently renovated to match photos of Dollarama stores, changing aisles from transverse to longitudinal. It still carries the old name but is ready to be updated.

Meta kicked me off Facebook and deleted my account. My wife passed away 4 years ago so her Facebook account and email have been deleted. I don't have banking, mygov or any other aps on my phone. My email addresses and passwords are based on my car regos, 3 cars.

At the Men's Shed we have two old desktop PC's which were repllaced from the organisation that runs the shed, similar to the photo below, for use by members. I spend a few hours per week using one of them. The problem is so many websites now require security id by way of fingerprint or facial photograh. These machines do not have webcams or touchpads. The alternative is multi level confirmation with security codes sent to your phone or an email inbox, which probably requires a similar level of ID. Many require you to use their AP, but apps flatten your phone battery and cost money, chewing up your data costs. Surely, if you have a secure password that should be sufficient. Such passwords could be your mother's maiden name and birthday (year not necessary), a symbol, and to differentiate on different sites, a site abbreviation. As an example, for this site you could have,say, Murphy2306#SA. You are not likely to forget your mother's maiden name or birthday. This meets the requirement of 8 characters, upper and lower case, numerals and a special character. For another site such as mygov, you would use the same password up to the symbol and append MG. :- Murphy2306#MG. Another alternative is the model of your car, the rego, special character and site ID :- Commodore1JV6DZ%AP (for Aircraft Pilots).

Popular giant Bunnings has swallowed two large firms whole in a mega merger – including the owner of Hard Yakka and Australia’s biggest industrial and safety supplies firm. https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/bunnings-swallows-industrial-empire-whole-in-mega-merger/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=newscomau&campaignPlacement=socref

Spoken like DeNiro.

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Correct OT. Nev, the D is not added to Paint, it substitutes for 'the'.

Yep.

Couldn't hear the people next to me at the Shed speaking, due to the racket of rain on the perspex skylights.

Correct.

Richard Marles said that explicitly. I saw it on video.

Correct, Nev. Hint: Person.

It explains the puzzle, which is the words of a song, as described in this internet rhttps://search.brave.com/ask?q=100+bottles+of+beer+lyric&source=llmSuggest&conversation=0929f0d0ae5974bdbd76600141cc2866006eesult -

Now they are trying to tell us that they wanted second hand subs in the first place.

One, honey - knee (hun) Dred Bot L S f B ear on d wall One hundred bottles of beer on the wall.

Reminds me of the woman in the Victorian government who was a friend of John Setka and gave character references to a couple of convicted criminals,saying they were of good character, without even Googling their name.

As most of you know, I do quite a bit of photography, and have added a lot of photos to Google Maps. Here is a count of photos and views, one photo in particular. A total of 181 photos posted. Nearly 10 million views altogether:

BYD is currently executing a massive logistics surge to Australia, having committed to tripling shipment volumes to 30,000 vehicles for May and June 2026 to address record demand driven by high fuel prices. The first special shipment of nearly 5,000 vehicles has already departed Shanghai aboard BYD’s proprietary carrier, the BYD Zhengzhou, and is scheduled to arrive in Melbourne on June 2, 2026, before proceeding to Sydney and Brisbane.