Townsville Bulletin

James Bondi just the man to take on COVID

- with Steve Price steve.price@townsville­bulletin.com.au

HE said: “Hey Pricey, I have an answer to the planes coming in from Melbourne!

“You know how we had the Rain Dome during the floods, now we need the Plane Dome!”

Well happy days indeed, so here we are with a few secret squirrel activities happening concerning flights with our southern mates.

Best call the CIA and see if they can help – that’s short for COVID In Annandale of course.

If that doesn’t work, then there’s the FBI, Flights Being Investigat­ed, and the RSPCA, the Really Serious Protection of Corona in Aitkenvale.

We will almost certainly have to call the famous Australian spy James Bondi, who is a part of ASIO, Absolute Silliness In Oonoonba.

All these agencies and more will be working hard to find out the truth about the incoming flights.

Months back we wanted more, now we’re standing in Garbutt throwing rocks at em and yelling ‘nick off’.

A funny old world it is.

Speaking of funny, the old sayings have had to change, yes those marvellous rhymes of nonsense that were such a part of our childhood, here are a few with the correct additives for a new viral generation – you’ll hear the kids at night recite this one:

‘Twinkle Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so blue, do you have Corona too?’

I’ll leave you to answer that one, well at least Little Star is further than two metres away.

Here’s another, and the lamb has been replaced: ‘Mary had a little croc, she kept him for survival, but he met the Melbourne plane and ate a new arrival’.

And of course now even poor Mary is in isolation. That famous old lady in her unusual home, sadly not much protection in a thong, so she’s still in the shoe. ‘There was an old lady who lived in a shoe, her neighbour was sneezing what else could she do’.

Maybe the secret caves of our Cutheringa, Castle Hill will be safe havens in time, we will have to ask Jack and Jill who knew the tracks well:

‘Jack and Jill went up the hill, quicker than they orta!

To keep away from Melbourne planes, stuff the bloody water.’

I’ll wait for the calls on that one.

‘Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, eating his vitamin C.

He’d gone to Giru, then caught the flu, And isolated was he!’

Written in 1698 was the famous Pata cake rhyme, needless to say its been updated:

‘Pata cake Pata cake pilot man,

Fly me to Queensland as fast as you can.’ Remember this one we’d shout around the shelter shed, it’s somewhat different now:

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, and this bug could hurt me.

‘So if you sneeze could you please, sneeze behind the trees!’

OK OK, a bit naughty, but all in fun, sorta, I’m sure the answers will arrive by carrier Curlew anytime now, concerning flights or no flights or frights or no frights.

Happy days to all!

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