Yes, pizzas it was here too, Doug or late night raids on soovos (souvlakis)
from Lygon St, Carlton.
‘Turn’ must be an Australian term then. Funny what I learn from you
Canadians and Brits.
Bill
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 2:23 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Definitely sounded teen-agey Bill, & I’d never heard the word ‘turn’ used
> that way, but got the idea. Fun in groups, without anything adult.
>
> Here it would have been pizzas ordered in at some point, I guess.
>
> But then remembering is one of the things we can do in these days of
> isolation …
>
> Doug
> > On May 27, 2020, at 3:26 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > cheers Bill you are right of course
> >
> > On 27/05/2020 09:51, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >> I’m still a teenager in my head in some ways, Patrick. The stanza about
> >> current times was inserted after I had finished the first draft.
> >>
> >> As for panties your head may have been still running with the material
> in
> >> your own snap.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 5:19 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bill thanks although I misread the title as panties!
> >>>
> >>> enjoyed but maybe for me I thought first of your teenage parties of
> long
> >>> ago then suddenly it's today -maybe I misread cheers P
> >>>
> >>> never heard of a turn an Oz thing?
> >>>
> >>> On 26/05/2020 22:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>>> A party used to be called a do.
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you do at a party? Chat,
> >>>>
> >>>> drink, flirt, dance... Da do doo ron?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> A party used also to be called a turn.
> >>>>
> >>>> What turns? You, maybe, as you swirl?
> >>>>
> >>>> Or your behaviour, not at work or home.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> A party sets you a-part,
> >>>>
> >>>> adrift from customary habits.
> >>>>
> >>>> Your job now is to socialise.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Parties were the best fun
> >>>>
> >>>> before food got involved.
> >>>>
> >>>> Eating was cheating back in the day.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Food should be incidental at a party
> >>>>
> >>>> or spontaneously called for, late,
> >>>>
> >>>> music and laughter the cravings to satisfy.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Parties these days are verboten.
> >>>>
> >>>> The very idea of clamour is fading.
> >>>>
> >>>> Music has lost a dimension.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Good parties gathered their own
> >>>>
> >>>> momentum, created circumstances
> >>>>
> >>>> for doing and turning.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> May they yet re-turn.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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