A reader writes: "We enjoyed the game between the Blues and Sharks on Saturday and the children were entertained by the cheerleaders. But our son, 5, thought they would be cold with their bare tummies, and didn't understand why they wore clothes that were too small for them."
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Car mishaps: "Four women attended the afternoon session of an Auckland convention but it ran late, giving them little time to eat and change in time for the evening session. The last of the four leaped into her friend's new, unfamiliar car, slammed the door rather hard and triggered the burglar alarm. The puzzled owner tried everything, but in the end had to drive with the alarm screaming to a garage. The mechanic tried various tricks then disconnected the battery.
The alarm screamed on. He decided to hoist the car and look underneath, so asked the passengers to get out. As the one who had slammed the door left, the screaming went with her until she opened her handbag and turned off her personal panic alarm."
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Odd names (this really is the last instalment):
1. Joy Richardson writes: "My mother went to a small school in the Far North (Kohumaru) with only nine pupils - of these, two families had the name of Graves and Coffin and their teacher was Mr Sadd. In this same area there was a family called Death. My father ended up marrying a Graves and his brother married a Coffin."
2. "When I was at university in the UK, I met a girl named Jo who happened to have the surname King. She didn't find it very amusing at all."
3. "A friend of mine goes by the name of Claire Hazard and unfortunately works in the insurance industry in the area of risk management."
4. Claire Cooke has a strange family naming tradition: "My grandmother's first cousin married a man with the surname 'Allwright'. His given names were 'Oswald Kitch', hence a full name of 'O.K. Allwright'. To make matters worse, his son and grandson were also given first and second names starting with O and K, so the name 'O.K. Allwright' carries on today in Port Elizabeth, South Africa."
5. Jon Addison says a road heading out of Clevedon in South Auckland had a Mr Day living on one side and a Mr Knight on the other, so it was named Twilight Rd and still is."
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See today's Herald cartoon
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