Out of a Hole

Congratulations to the Extravacats who crammed into a hula hoop. Our faithful spy tells us that those on the outside still carry the impression of the hoop in the most unusual places—and that those in the inside carry the impression of those on the outside …

Minister of Snailways Moohan, proclaims that there's no room in N.Z.R. for obsolete equipment. What about obsolete Ideas … the Nelson railway for example?

Did you know we live in a police state? Demonstrators at Athletic Park—exercising their right to freedom of opinion concerning colour bar—were set on by bobbery and carted off. To this observer, it looks as if the cops only need death's head badges and jackboots to complete the picture …

Notice the installation of TV in two N.Z. colleges. With the fare put out by the state television service, we wonder whether it'll come down to a case of, "Why is your brain so much whiter than mine?" Wouldn't it be loverly to sit on the Boord of Directors …

"Mummy, why does Daddy look so pale?"

"Hush darling, your father's in the All Blacks."

A downtown theatre advertises latest cinemascope as the First Real Big Film of 1960. Besides being ungrammatical, this rather suggests that the Big Film I saw there last week was only a fake. I want my money back!

Query arrives as to origin of name Kookie. Also used by a character in TV program "77 Sunset Strip," it derives from the word "cuckoo¹"—which is what it means.

—Kookie.