Yes, it's an interesting custom you have over there. But the rest of us sometimes wonder why so many fathers condemn their sons to go through life called "Junior". Not so bad once it gets to the IIIrd I admit, as that sounds almost regal. (Though mad George III seems to be the most notable or notorious -- depending on ones view of the outcomes of the era -- of that designation.) Fair enough. [Given that, you might be interested to know that the local Nam vets are causing their annual ructions around here by setting up camp again in one of the more remote national parks on Cape York Peninsula about 400 km north of Cairns. The camp is to mark remembrance of the Battle of Long Tan, and the spokesman for the group is Major Les Hiddins (TV's popular "Bush Food" man) who wrote the army manual on survival in the Australian bush in about 1980 and has a huge public profile. All very embarrassing to the Queensland state government who claim the vets have no right to be there; but quite hilarious for the onlookers to see the QG caught in such a PR bind!] I'm delighted you may want to save Dave after all; but I doubt if you can really see me. [Ah, the meanings of words...] Cheers, Phred.
Don't blame us. For better or for worse, we got it the same place y'all got a lot of yours. It was the evil, evil English. Actually, it wasn't the Johnson or the III part that proved troublesome. It was the Ogden which made my survival through grade school questionable on all too many occasions. However much we may differ among ourselves on all the questions concerning VN, all VN vets have one thing in common. We take extreme delight in tweaking the REMFs, bureaucrats, and politicians, and their descendants, who were responsible for or added to our travails in VN. They deserve every discomfort we can inflict, at any time we can inflict it. Glad to see the Aussie contingent are holding up their end. ;-> OJ III [Whose father knew what the Ogden would do to me, so gave me a nickname at birth. It helped. Sometimes. Fifty-two years later I still wear the scars of one notable third-grade battle.]
Nah, there have been a few Louis', Ceasars etc much more notorious than Goerge III who I think has established was not really mad, at least not as a result of in-breeding which is sometimes the impression of numbered people.
Yes. My middle name had similar consequences. Oh, and I had a typical "brain fart" last night when I referred to Les Hiddins as "TV's popular 'Bush Food' man". It finally occurred to me about lunch time today that the correct reference is "Bush Tucker" man. (But then, I don't have TV, so I excuse myself for the error. Cheers, Phred.
