Ah, how sweet, Max (now if I only knew what the MCG was…).
Doug
On Aug 6, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We Members of the MCC
> when we need to take a pee
>
> queue very patiently
> knowing the hoi polloi
>
> in the public jakes
> below the stands
>
> of the G have what it takes -
> they're two by two
>
> shoulder to shoulder
> mingling their pee-streams.
>
> Fancy crossing swords
> with such manly men? -
>
> with one free hand
> taking an iPhone selfie?
>
> Better upstairs in line
> each Member to his member
>
> waiting his memberly turn.
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:49, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Two only, Pat, as far as I have ever seen. When I think about it again now, maybe this is/was a student thing or young people thing. Certainly doesn't go on at the members of the MCC anyway.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 6 Aug 2015, at 5:40 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bill any images?? :-) not limited to two ?? these Oz customs amaze could
>>> be on the tourist blurb 'come to Oz cross swords with the locals'
>>> P
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 05 August 2015 22:48
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: CORRECTION FW: pattle snapple 698 < *
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>>>
>>> Yes, I got that, Pat. By the way, the expression 'crossed swords' in
>>> Australia has another meaning. It refers to the activity by two men, equally
>>> 'caught short' when only one toilet is available, of standing either side of
>>> the bowl, and unleashing urine flow at the same time, crossing, as it were,
>>> mid-stream. It helps to explain why you see long queues at women's toilets
>>> but rarely men's.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>>> On 6 Aug 2015, at 4:13 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Cheers Doug Bill I liked the idea of poets armed with words not swords
>>>> -but close visually P
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
>>>> Sent: 05 August 2015 19:09
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: CORRECTION FW: pattle snapple 698 < *
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>>>>
>>>> Yes it does, the game is afoot.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>> On Aug 5, 2015, at 2:20 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Aah, the clarification enriches, Pat.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>> On 05/08/2015, at 6:17 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oops was in too much of a rush here please see correction !!!!!!
>>>>>> DUEL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> poets
>>>>>> at dawn
>>>>>> after insults
>>>>>> were traded
>>>>>> offence
>>>>>> was taken
>>>>>> words were
>>>>>> crossed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pmcmanus
>>>>>> r835
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>>> Sent: 05 August 2015 08:12
>>>>>> To: 'Poetryetc: poetry and poetics'
>>>>>> Subject: pattle snapple 698 < *
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> DUEL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> at dawn
>>>>>> after insults
>>>>>> were traded
>>>>>> offence
>>>>>> was taken
>>>>>> words were
>>>>>> crossed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pmcmanus
>>>>>> r835
>>>>>>
>>>>>> back from the holiday now in recuperating position !!!!
>>>>>> was in Kingsdown -near Walmer -near Deal -nearish Dover-Kent
>>>>>> -England anyone kow it??
>>>>>> cottage on a beach daily dips sea sang toes dipped!
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>>>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>
>>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>>
>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>
>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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