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 < *
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> 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 < *
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>> 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 < *
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>>>> 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.
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