Letters

Drivel by Any Other Name

Ed,

I had thought that when my wife and I moved two years ago to Yamba from Mullumbimby that we would also leave behind the offensive and puerile drivel that regularly appeared in Letters in the local paper and was written by Magenta and Norm Appel-Pye. But no!

The duo now has a full column of their own (So They Say) in which to impart such nuggets of wisdom like… (Nagging – January 15). “Firstly, every full moon the nagg-ometer goes off the scale” in answer to a concocted question from “Stu Pidcock” … get it? Ha, ha. This thought does not get even close to the flowing school yard prose to be found in their column January 8 titled “Outside Pisser” in reply to a fictitious Flo Peebles and which included such gems and observations that … “There is also the advantage, for men (pissing outside) of not having as much P.U.D. (Post urinal drip) to have to clean up around the toilet”!! There were many other observations in that particular column which were too stupid for words.

The column written by Magenta and Norm Appel-Pye for January 8 was especially obnoxious and was the one that has prompted me to write. I am seventy-five and have been around mines, factories and building sites all of my working life; I am no wowser.

The writings and thoughts of this duo are not worth column space in the Independent. Can you please replace them with a correspondent/columnist worth reading and at the same time therefore enhance the quality of our Paper.

Clive Jeffery, Yamba