No House of Lords is it, Pat. You just ride out your time on the waiting list and after 19 years in my case, Bingo.
Bill
On 07/08/2015, at 7:49 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Joined the toffs then ??:-) privilege rules ??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 06 August 2015 23:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: crossing swords at the MCG
>
> Much gnashing of teeth and swords spraying everywhere I would imagine, after that first innings, Pat. What a disaster: all out for 60!
>
> max, a little tale from the 'public jakes'. At the G in the 70s, footy rather than cricket as I recall, huge half-time queues in the men's dunny. Close, in there it was. One kid found when he finally made it to the front, he had been queuing to to relieve himself in the washbasin! Worse, his member wouldn't reach. Can't recall what happened next. I became a capital M member soon after I think.
>
> Bill
>
>> On 7 Aug 2015, at 7:32 am, PATRICK MCMANUS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> ab Oz cricket in the uk-what didnthey get first innings??? P:-)
>> ----Original message---- From : [log in to unmask] Date :
>> 06/08/2015 - 17:29 (GMTST) To : [log in to unmask] Subject : Re:
>> crossing swords at the MCG
>>
>> melb cricket ground
>>
>>> 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
>>> [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.
>>
>
|