Dave, at 22:26 on Jul 14 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Don't they have courier companies in Sydney?

db> All the couriers in Sydney are far too busy being run over by buses. 

Que?

db> I don't know why, but it's every Sydney-sider's preferred means of exit - 
db> to be run over by a bus (listen carefully, whenever someone talks about 
db> their own untimely demise, it's always death by double-decker..).

That just HAS to be some sort of obscure joke, or a reference to some local
occurrence, as it stuck right in the wall here, just above my head.

BTW, not too many dead people get to tell me how they met their end.  :)

Regards, Bill
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