4 day ride from/to Brisbane

Clue
Capital "Q"

 

A Night at the Opera?

I don't even like stout.

Theo

 

That puts you in high company. The capital Q queen is reputedly not
fond of stout either. Not sure of husband bilong Missus Queen
though(1)

GWD
1. Pidgin. Means Phil really.

 

Poet lorrikeet?

We had one of those up here in the Blue Mountains. I met him before
he died in 2005. Great bloke. http://tinyurl.com/4e37dm9

A man after my own heart. I particlarly like this poem:

The Slouch fo Vietnam by Denis Kevans - - -

Why should I wear that new slouch hat, the slouch of Vietnam,
Why should I share the napalm-guilt of blundering Uncle Sam,
Why should I hunt down peasant kids, who fight for rights and rice,
Why should I spill this hard-earned blood in a sucker's sacrifice?

I think of my old Uncles, and their mates, who lie bone-white
On the far-off fields of Flanders, now who promoted that fight?
They'll teach you that life is precious, then they'll brush it aside
like dust,
But I won't give my life away 'cause a brass-hat says I must.

A chilly dusk is falling here, the boxtrees' shadows stretch,
And through the ring-barked clumps I see the vanished soldiers
fetched,
The tall plume on the horseman, the slant brim down below,
As through the mists of memory, the slaughtered slouches go.

There's young Mick, the cricketer, from frosty Eucumbene,
And "Pally" Tom, the skinner, from the southern Riverine,
And, troop on troop, the squadrons pass, the sun across their cheeks,
Clay-cold, and pale as cellar grass, and not one soldier speaks.

The slouch of brave Gallipoli, that blinded the diggers' eyes,
The slouch of bloody Passchendaele, where the shell-shock case still
cries,
The martyrs hanged in Changi, the heroes killed at Lae,
But the slouch of jungle paddies is a slouch I cannot pay.

Why should I wear that new slouch hat, the slouch of Vietnam,
Why should I share the napalm-guilt of blundering Uncle Sam,
Why should I hunt down peasant kids who fight for rights and rice,
Why should I spill this hard-earned blood in a sucker's sacrifice?

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So there ya go, George, me ol mate.... Think you can fill those
shoes?

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I can't help it - You just gotta love Gerry sometimes

N/

 

Probably share one with the hooker with the heart of gold and Santa



N/

 

Surely the capital Q Queen is the group Queen?

The other one is irrelevant.

Theo

 

Not a hope in hell.
Thanks for that though.

 

That is very good. Where can I see more of Denis' writings?

Theo

 

The thought of jerry lov is unusually unappealing

 

Of not a Guiness fan what about a lighter ale

 

Hail hale ale.

I'm a member of a group of three called Dodgy Brothers Brewing. We do five
brews at a time.

Theo

 

Well, you could start here, at my mate Tog's blog:
http://togsplace.blogspot.com/2006/10/another-selection-of-denis-kevanss.html

Then you could try googling really tricky stuff like:

"poems by denis kevans"

or

"denis kevans" poems

Or get your local library track down some of his works for you on the
"inter-library loans" thingie.

D'oh...

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Not something I see every day on the newsgroup.

mi stap long lae nau. sixpla yia mi stap long hia.
sapose som tiam you kamm long dispela place gen yu mi ken go long yot
klab na drinkim sumpella sp.


Brad Leyden

 

Why thank you.
My days of getting drunk in yacht clubs in equatorial climes are long
over, but again thanks just the same

 

I still have the scars (and memories of the hangovers) from the dances
in the Port Moresby yachtie.

N/

 

I was thinking you would have a wealth of resources at your fingertips
regarding Denis' works, which I was hoping you would direct me to, but I
suppose I should have expected justfuckinggoogleit from you. Google gives me
51,000 hits so I might need a bit of time to check them all out.

Nothing much changes does it?

Thanks for your help.

Theo

 

I directed you at Tog's blog. There are several poems there, (scroll
down about a page.) But I suppose that was too hard for you.

If anyone can direct you at more sources of Kevans's poems, he can.
You can email him here:

Denis self-published all his work and he's dead now, so I have no
frigging idea where you could get copies of his works now.

I wasn't joking about inter-library loans. I know the Blue Mountains
Municipal Library some of his works.

The National Library of Australia has these listings:
http://tinyurl.com/4nnxol9
I don't know if your local library can get them. Talk to them.

What more do you want me to fucking do for you, you lazy prick!

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Gerry. It is very bad form to publish someone elses email on usenet.

Spam is the reason.

 

OK, point taken. I should have known better but Theo infuriated me
with his pathetic need for spoon-feeding and so I went looking for the
guy's email address and since it was on the guy's wegsite, I figured
it was in the public domain already. None of this would have been
encessary if Theo was up for doing his own homework.

Those Western Australians, they want everything handed to them on a
platter.

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Onya bike

Gerry