Things I Learned from Watching 'On The Beach'
1. The real cause of the end of civilization was not the atomic war between the USA and the Soviet Union - it was the wine committee!
2. Peter never wrestles with Mary like that anymore
3. Breakfast in Australia consists of bacon & eggs and all that muck
4. Ackerman can sure tell you what the kangaroos are putting in the beer
5. It's easier to keep straightening out a picture than to re-hang it properly in the first place
6. Jorgenson's theories aren't worth much
7. It's debatable what a sailor would do with Moira if given the chance
8. Miserable muck is passing for coffee these days
9. "These days" was becoming quite the expression those days
10. And Peter's afraid he's been using it
11. The Navy Dept in Melbourne is in a timezone one hour behind Frankston, per Bridie's wall clock.
12. There were over 200 drug stores in San Francisco in 1964
13. Never let your wife see a wall calendar of January 1964 - it may upset her.
14. Radiation sickness takes a few days, a week - there's no rule.
15. A pack of eager women may survive a nuclear blast in San Diego
16. Dogs don't like people to see them die. Evidently neither do the people of San Francisco
17. Peter can be an intolerable ass sometimes
18. There is always hope; there has to be
19. Julian shouldn't really drink at parties. He may say something ineblebeblay brilliant
20. Swain's parents live up in the hills, not visible from the bay
21. There's no drinking allowed on American submarines
22. All it takes is a handful of faulty vacuum tubes and transistors to bring down the entire world
23. Moira can sing and dance
24. There is still time . . . brother!