Jewels Are A Steal At Half The Price
Illawarra Mercury
Saturday October 16, 1999
There is a logical explanation for the sound of frenzied page-turning followed by oohhs, aaaaahs and of course embarrassed giggles emanating from your neighbour's home.
They've obviously become the proud owners of a Jewels of the Illawarra calender.
The good news is it's not too late for you to also get in on the fun and at a much cheaper price.
The Smith Family and The Illawarra Mercury are offering the Jewels for just $9.95.
If you buy one of the calendars you will have the chance to win a fabulous St George Illawarra jersey personally autographed by the 1999 team.
Calendars are available from The Illawarra Mercury as well as newsagencies in Thirroul East, Woonona East, Corrimal North, Corrimal Court, Downtown Wollongong, Hospital Hill Wollongong, Farmborough Rd, Berkeley, Albion Park Rail, Albion Park, Port Kembla, Warrawong and Windang.
All proceeds go to the Smith Family.
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After a gruelling year, one Mercury staffer has fled to the other side of the world on a Caribbean cruise to escape reminders of work.
So you can understand his amusement when he arrived at the dock and saw the name of the ship on which he was booked to sail - The SS Mercury!
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Wollongong woman Lisa rushed to the aid of a friend involved in a minor car accident on the way to work yesterday morning.
Although she thought her friend had only suffered minor scratches in the accident, she began to wonder if her diagnosis was correct when her friend began calling her name and frantically tapping her ankles.
While Lisa had no idea what her friend was trying to tell her, a tow-truck driver standing nearby understood perfectly.
``She's trying to tell you you're standing on an ants nest," he said.
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More news on the mysterious brass object recently found in Smith St and handed in to Tom Tobey at Primavera Antiques.
Short Rounds reported earlier this week it was the top off an old miner's lamp which was given to miners on their retirement.
A number of readers have since contacted Mr Tobey to say they were not miners' lamps, but lamps used to check the level of gas in the mine using an enclosed flame without risk of an explosion.
On a lighter note (pardon the pun) with just one slip of a finger on the keyboard we inadvertently canonised the lamp's creator.
The man was Sir Humphrey Davy, and NOT St Humphrey Davy!
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A certain advertising sales rep from a certain local company (which shall remain nameless) discovered the hard way that bad deeds will always come back to haunt you.
While out making sales calls recently, the rep drove past the Motor Registry and decided he'd drop in and update his registration.
He had planned to do it in his lunch hour, but ... well ... he was in the area ... and it would only take five minutes wouldn't it? Wrong!
Actually it did only take five minutes ... for the Motor Registry staff to call police, but a lot longer for the whole sorry affair to be sorted out.
Apparently the rep's car had been stolen a few month's earlier, but later recovered.
Due to a glitch in the system, however, it was still listed as stolen and so he was a prime suspect.
An hour and a half later he returned to work, having missed out on some valuable selling time but with a very interesting yarn to tell the boss.
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