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Even the ad agencies got into the spirit of Oz, until their clients woke up.
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Letters to the editor - Page 4
It is not known whether D Mackellar ever become an Oz subscriber, but his letters still dog the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald. As for Robert Hughes, I'm afraid our "best letter" award went to his head.
David Dale .... Never stopped writing to Oz. After the magazine ceased, he has long been forced to accept menial research jobs. He still attempts jokes, though he remains serious.
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The caption to Martin Sharp's cartoon satirising folk singer Joan Baez, "Get Folked" was endlessly debated during court proceedings. Artist John Olsen bravely tried to maintain that the phrase was in common use among Sydney's concert goers, as in "hey man, let's all get folked".
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This was dashed off the minute I noticed the employment ad. While the Packers still reign and The Bulletin trudges on, the other targets are long gone.
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The villain in this piece of satirical calligraphy is a yob called Dennis, who its creator, Martin Sharp, claims to have seen running wild at a Sydney surfing party. He bears no relation to Felix Dennis, later associated with London Oz. The magistrate found it "filthy and disgusting", although a string of defence witnesses likened Sharp to Swift, Boccaccio and Barry Humphries.
A pun on the then head of the intelligence service, Brigadier Spry,
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Believe it or not, the Beatles seemed a bit "straight" in their pre-acid pop-hits days, until they encountered Oz. An earlier visitor to Sydney was the "sick" US comedian Lenny Bruce, whose harassment by local authorities was one of the many reasons for starting Oz. Both the magistrate & my mother found Ta Ra R Boom Te Ay to be "grossly offensive, blasphemous and obscene".
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