KEY POINTS:
Rick Morrin ventured through the Northern Gateway and received a calendar with pictures of the tunnels (lovely), the Pukeko Legs bridge (quite something), a view of the inscribed motifs on the flyover (very pretty), and then this ... "Clearly, the folk who made it had trouble filling 12 months, as August is hardly riveting!"
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My family were swapping amusing stories about times they had mistaken unsuspecting fellow shoppers for shop assistants, writes Sonja. "And not to be outdone, I relayed my own story. After a particularly gruelling shift at work, I passed through a department store on the way home. Having made my selection I headed to the cash register but was dismayed to discover a long queue. Unable to face it, I made myself comfortable near a display and waited. After a few minutes a woman approached. I paid little attention, but she continued to approach. I felt somewhat unnerved. Then she came closer still and was about to touch my dress when I could stand it no longer and moved away. The woman screamed out loud, drawing the attention of all those around us, and then hastily apologised. 'I'm so sorry', she gushed. 'I thought you were a mannequin'."
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In response to yesterday's image at Bangkok airport of an upside-down New Zealand, Steve writes of another display at Bangkok airport. "Don't you just hate it when you're on holiday and no one told you they moved Paris to Africa?"
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In response to Raymond A. Barrett's take on evolution, here is a quote I found online which makes religion sound equally as ridiculous: "A cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."
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