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favour in the eyes of another, often one’s spouse. The term “brownie points” apparently goes back to the 1950s when a man in the Los Angeles Times spoke of earning favor with his wife in terms of brownie points.
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ANS are flying out the door at businesses across the Loddon almost as fast as a mozzie can land on your forehead and pesky flies can land in ... well it’s summer, so we’ll say the fruit salad. And judging by Bradley of Boort’s latest Treemendous offering, he’s mightily annoyed with the interruptions to good life posed by these pests.
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AS the weight of a six-pack of fly spray the trigger for one regular in OTF being seconded to supermarket trolley duties the other day? One of our eagle-eyed correspondents whizzed in a text message chronicling chap’s latest journey down the aisle with the good wife. Correspondent says brownie points would surely have been earned.
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HE source of information to outdo your Funk and Wagnalls Wikipedia, says brownie points in modern usage are an imaginary social currency, which can be acquired by doing good deeds or earning
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ID you know a University of Oxford study has found mosquitoes land on people with type O blood twice as much as type A blood?
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E HAVE also discovered that mosquitos are weak flyers and cannot withstand strong breezes, so an outdoor fan can be an effective deterrent.
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HERE’S an old wive’s tale about placing a penny in a bag of water to get rid of mosquitos. – If you try this, you will probably end up with more mosquitos. They love standing water, and the penny does nothing for detracting the bugs and keeping you safe.
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HAT do you get if you cross the Lone Ranger with an insect? The Maskedquito! What has antlers and sucks blood? A moose-quito! What is a mosquito’s favourite sport? Skin-diving!
70 YEARS TOGETHER Former Loddon Shire chief commissioner Goff Letts and wife Joyce celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. Mr Letts headed the three-member commission appointed to run Loddon Shire following local government amalgamation in 1995. The Letts spent 30 years in the Northern Territory where Mr Letts was a veterinary surgeon. Returning to Victoria, he served as chairman of Wimmera Mallee water before the Loddon appointment. Mr and Mrs Letts now live in Stawell. Photo: Paul Carracher, The Weekly Advertiser Horsham
Classic fridge putts to new home A RARE and classic Warburton Franki beer fridge has been snaped up in quick time. In less than a fortnight, Inglewood Golf Club has sold the fridge believed to be more than 70 years old. “It’s off to another Loddon community,” said club secretary David Vanston.
“One of our members was contacted by a prospective buyer, an offer made and accepted. “The old fridge will soon be in its third home, starting at the Empire State Hotel before coming to our club 50 years ago.” The story of the classic fridge up for sale was published in last week’s Loddon Herald.
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