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On 09/08/2015, at 6:08 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Bill are you over 19 years then!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 09 August 2015 07:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: crossing swords at the MCG
>
> 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.
>>>
>>
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