Real walnuts, Boundary Roads and the price of two white squares
Sent to get walnuts, Dermot Perry of Mount Keira found them at his local supermarket “labelled as ‘Real Walnuts’ which begs the question, are there ‘Unreal Walnuts’ that are superior? Or since walnuts come from the USA, are there fake walnuts?”
For Manbir Singh Kohli of Pemulwuy, the artwork Andrew Cohen saw at Christie’s (C8) “was a bargain at $2,100,000. Robert Ryman’s all-white painting Bridge sold for a record $US20.6 million at auction in 2015. But why settle for just one white square? If I could buy it from the Museum of Modern Art, I’d buy Kazimir Malevich’s, White on White, featuring two white squares, it must be well over $US50 million.”
“I felt my husband remarkably patient as he viewed many works at the Tate Modern,” thinks Janice Creenaune of Austinmer. “He was quite intrigued though at viewing a blue triangle above the door and stood for quite a while, until he realised it was an exit sign. Best ‘artwork’ in the place was his appraisal.”
“Odille Esmonde-Morgan (C8) is technically correct about the use of the red flag on US mailboxes,” says Chris Keane of Seattle, USA. “However, the harsh reality is that the red flag signals to every passing thief that there’s outgoing mail ready to steal, often including payment cheques since the US banking system remains stuck in the 1980s. No one around here uses red flags any more.”
Jack Dikian of Mosman writes: “Unlike Tom Hanson (C8) who has a life, I have plenty of time, which is great because I waste it professionally counting trains, the number of times I opened the fridge door, the number of times I check my phone to see if it magically updated itself. Just to keep the statistics honest, I can tell you, Boundary roads are like shared Netflix accounts. Everyone claims them, nobody pays for them, and somehow, they keep multiplying on official council paperwork.”
“Tom will be pleased to know there’s only one Boundary Road in Northmead, but according to AI, there are at least 60 distinct instances of a ‘Boundary Road’ across NSW,” adds George Zivkovic of Northmead. “The name is exceptionally common because it historically marked the geographic limits of original land grants, suburbs or council areas.”
John Crowe of Cherrybrook admits to minor memory loss (C8) but he hides his own Easter eggs, and is looking forward to finding the final three hidden in 2025.
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