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On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:40, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 < *
>>>> ||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\\|||||||||||///////////-------------<
>>>>
>>>> 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 < *
>>>>> ||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\\|||||||||||///////////-------------<
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 < *
>>>>>>> ||||||||||\\\\\\\\\\\|||||||||||///////////-------------<
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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