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Also my military career was likely to be truncated most arbitrarily for using words like soupçon. Or even knowing them. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Oh, I do like that, Caleb. A big smile over my oats. Now, if the Aussie > batsmen show some pluck, I shall stay smiling ... Andrew > > 2008/10/31 Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> > > > Singleton is a town in the New England region of NSW, with a large army > > base > > like Puckapunyal. > > > > To add to the surreal nature of all this, at the end of school of I was > > offered a scholarship to Duntroon Military College. They must have been > > desperate. After years of boarding school, they thought I wanted to spend > > MORE time with an entire community of sexually incoherent men? On the > > grounds that my "troops" admired me? They 'admired' me because I bribed > the > > quartermaster to get alcohol into annual camp, and my platoon sergeant > was > > a > > borderline psychopath at 17, who had them all terrified... > > > > It was as far removed from anything remotely real regarding war or as an > > episode of MASH or Dad's Army, but with that ineffable soupçon of an > > outbreak of violence and misogyny that underpins so much of male culture > > here. > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Douglas Barbour > > <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > > > Wow, memory everywhere, Andrew. > > > > > > In Canada the closest I came were the Boy Scouts. & I've put all that > > > pretty well out of my mind.... > > > > > > Doug > > > On 29-Oct-08, at 4:11 PM, andrew burke wrote: > > > > > > "Hey, watch this." > > >> > > > > > > Douglas Barbour > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > > > > Latest books: > > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > Wednesdays' > > > > > > > > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > > > > > What dull barbarians are not proud > > > of their dullness and barbarism? > > > > > > Thackery > > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ >