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VK5ATN > SPELLI 28.03.03 22:38l 43 Lines 1700 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : CF0912VK5ATN
Read: GUEST DB0FHN
Subj: Re: Grumpy VK's
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From: VK5ATN@VK5SPG.#ADL.#SA.AUS.OC
To : SPELLI@WW
David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR charges into battle yet again:
> It's a strange phenomenon that VK, which only has a slack handful of
> amateurs, has become the world's largest exporter of packet pomposity.
> Another VK first!
Dash it all sir! That's an astonishing statement from someone who lives in
country which, having bestowed the scourge of cricket upon the colonies
(along with rabbits, foxes, sparrows, nuclear tests and the Spice Girls),
has now virtually forgotten how to play the wretched game.
This lamentable situation has it's benefits though. It allows sporting
Australian commentators and journo's to use words like pathetic,
laughable, ridiculous, shambles, disgrace, farce and ludicrous, to use the
more civilised examples.
Without English cricket, these words and their intrinsic value could be
lost forever to future generations. The performance of the English
cricket team provides valuable examples of the depth and true meaning of
these words which otherwise might be confused or forgotten altogether in
the paradise which is Australia, and for which very few if any adequate
local examples might be found.
BTW David, your comments are also being assembled in a file and will be
supplied to Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespe & Co, who will
doubtless find valuable motivation therein for future encounters with your
motley assembly of ramshackle recruits.
I'll also mention your bulletin to the Prime Minister the next time I see
him down at the local. Expect this to be taken up at senior levels. Your
ambassador should be prepared for an early explanation.
We are not amused.
73
Terry
VK5ATN
:-)
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