“But about 40 years ago, on holiday in New Caledonia (poor weather day), I saw John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn on TV, dubbed into French. I also went to see A Man Called Horse, in German, of course. “Dutch subtitles caused amusement when we saw Flying High in the Netherlands in 1981,” says Martin Unwin of East Tamworth. Reacting to a thread that came out of the underwater hockey debate, Andrew Cohen of Glebe (who fancies the name The Flatheads), gives a salutation to Platts board shorts: “Arguably, Collaroy surfer Kevin Platt’s mum invented board shorts. Of course, American copies by Golden Breed and others flourished, but the hard-wearing original was the choice of champions and of us wannabes.”