Column 8 is a short column published by the Sydney Morning Herald in which readers who find interesting happenings have their short letters and observations published. The name comes from the fact that it originally occupied the final (8th) column of the broadsheet newspaper's front page. In a front page redesign in the lead-up to the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, Column 8 moved to the back page of the first section. In architecture and structural engineering, a column is that part of a structure whose purpose is to transmit through compression the weight of the structure. ... ... Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. ... 2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

The content tends to the quirky, typically involving strange urban occurrences, instances of confusing signs (often in Engrish), wordplay, and discussion of more or less esoteric topics. An example of Engrish noted in Tokyo in the year 2000 Engrish is a slang term which, in its purest form, refers to poor-quality attempts by Japanese writers to create English words and phrases; whether in mistranslation of an original Japanese language text, or in an attempt to create... Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ...

The column is also sometimes affectionately known as Granny, after a fictional grandmother who supposedly edited the content. The old Granny logo is occasionally resurrected for a special restrospective. This article is about the domestic group. ...

It was edited for 58 years by George Richards, who retired on 31 January, 2004. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...