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Prince Philip
In 1967 when I was still at University, I was introduced to Prince Phillip, in the company of my father.
He was presenting a Royal Charter to my father's professional Institution (the IREE, now absorbed into Engineers Australia).
A fellow student, who was a cadet journalist, had just told me a lurid story, that she claimed was embargoed, about the 'leisure arrangements' made for him in Sydney.
When I met him I was inappropriately bemused. I couldn't help seeing the great man in the light of her revelations.
It's like the advice often given to a nervous public speaker to imagine their audience naked.
It certainly reduced any nervousness I may have otherwise felt, to the point of having to control my smile.
Of course her story may well have been embroidered.
It was a year or two after the Beetles had enjoyed the lively company of several Sydney girls, one of whom became quite famous as a fashion designer - and renowned for her embroidery.
Years later I met a woman who was equally proud of providing similar services to a famous author. It was her badge of honour.
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Macquarie Dictionary:
pakapoo ticket
/pakuh'pooh tikuht/.
noun
something that looks confusing or incomprehensible: marked like a pakapoo ticket.
[from a Chinese game similar to Lotto, involving the purchase of a pai ko p'aio, literally, white pigeon ticket, having a range of characters on it which the purchaser then marked off. The packapoo ticket was indecipherable to most colonials.]
pakapoo
/pakuh'pooh/.
noun
a type of Chinese lottery using slips of paper with sets of characters written on them.
Also, pakapu.
[Cantonese, equivalent to Mandarin bái ge piáo, literally, white pigeon ticket; originally a trained white pigeon was used to choose the winning characters]
This was a common expression when I was at school . More than once it was used by teachers to describe my homework assignments. I was not alone in receiving this criticism.
I'm reminded of the word recalcitrant.
No student of Normanhurst Boys' High needed to rush to the dictionary when Australian PM Paul Keating used it to describe Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad. It was firmly in our lexicon like: 'not masticating confectionary during periods dedicated to pedagogical exertions'; write it out 50 times.
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The order is: Penang, Cameron Highlands (2 pictures- only), Malacca, Kuala Lumpur
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I took the following video in between taking still shots with my camera. When it closes there are several other linked movies, taken by others on the same beach, that show the preparation takeoff and landing. They didn't dump me in the water like in one of these. My flight was perfect and one of the best things of this kind I have done. It takes a lot less skill than skiing.
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