HMCS Regina in Vancouver at Canada Place 2011.11.26-27

[LLurker]

In case anyone is interested...


<http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/24/hmcs-regina-open-for-visitors-on-nov-26-and-27/>

--

[La N.]

"LLurker" <Rot13t...@pnoyrerk.pbz.invalid> wrote in message
news:Rot13tlrrgbv-73F8...@nntp.aioe.org...

> In case anyone is interested...
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> <http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/24/hmcs-regina-open-for-visitors-on-nov-26-and-27/>
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> --
>
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>

Umm ... should I bite? .. ;>

- nilita, who lives pretty close to Canada Place

[Eugene Griessel]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:18:01 -0800, "La N."
<nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"LLurker" <Rot13t...@pnoyrerk.pbz.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Rot13tlrrgbv-73F8...@nntp.aioe.org...
>> In case anyone is interested...
>>
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>> <http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/24/hmcs-regina-open-for-visitors-on-nov-26-and-27/>
>>
>> --
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>
>Umm ... should I bite? .. ;>

I had a rather dim-witted neighbour once who was employed as a school
secretary. She was easily confused. Someone called the school and
asked to speak to "Regina". The lady in question stuck her head
around the corner into the staff room and called loudly "Is there a
Vagina working here?" To say she brought the house down was an
understatement.

Eugene L Griessel

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so
popular?

[willshak]

Eugene Griessel wrote the following:

That's why most of us in the US pronounce it ri-gee'-na :-)

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:19:08 -0500, willshak <will...@00hvc.rr.com>
wrote:

>Eugene Griessel wrote the following:
>> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:18:01 -0800, "La N."
>> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "LLurker" <Rot13t...@pnoyrerk.pbz.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:Rot13tlrrgbv-73F8...@nntp.aioe.org...
>>>> In case anyone is interested...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/24/hmcs-regina-open-for-visitors-on-nov-26-and-27/>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Umm ... should I bite? .. ;>
>>
>> I had a rather dim-witted neighbour once who was employed as a school
>> secretary. She was easily confused. Someone called the school and
>> asked to speak to "Regina". The lady in question stuck her head
>> around the corner into the staff room and called loudly "Is there a
>> Vagina working here?" To say she brought the house down was an
>> understatement.
>>
>> Eugene L Griessel
>>
>>
>
>
>That's why most of us in the US pronounce it ri-gee'-na :-)

The US is noted for it's peculiar pronunciation of common English
words.



Eugene L Griessel

'In closing...' is always followed by the other half of the speech.

[William Hamblen]

Latin, Eugene, Latin. "Regina Coeli" and all that. It's how you say it
in Church Latin.

Bud

[Eugene Griessel]

I do humbly apologise for using the pronunciation of the Oxford
English Dictionary. Unfortunately I regard at as the authority on
English pronunciation - one of those strange little aberrations.
Ecclesiastical pronunciation is another thing altogether.

Eugene L Griessel

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

[Moramarth]

On Nov 25, 8:36 am, Eugene Griessel <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote:
>
> I had a rather dim-witted neighbour once who was employed as a school
> secretary. She was easily confused. Someone called the school and
> asked to speak to "Regina". The lady in question stuck her head
> around the corner into the staff room and called loudly "Is there a
> Vagina working here?" To say she brought the house down was an
> understatement.
>

I used a similar line on a friend who had just come out of hospital:

Me: So how did the Sex Change go then:
Tony C: What Sex Change?
Me: I heard you'd gone to hospital for A Cute Vagina...
Tony C: ACUTE ANGINA, you bastard!!!

Cheers,

> Eugene L Griessel

[Eugene Griessel]

The standard riposte being "I came to be treated - not admired!"

Eugene L Griessel

Landmines are equal opportunity weapons.

[La N.]

"William Hamblen" <william...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:xd6dnTeqO9csKFLT...@earthlink.com...

We don't speak Latin in Canada.

- nilita

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message
news:89evc7hsn9rhi82do...@4ax.com...

This time last year I was living near Regina. If you had referred to it as
Rejeena, you would have been laughed out of town and called "gay" or
something.

- nil.

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:51:03 -0800, "La N."
<nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>We don't speak Latin in Canada.

Seeing as it's Friday night I'll risk a Canadian joke:
Someone in Quebec rings up the rather dim-witted coal merchant and ask
for six tons of coal, "s'il vous plait". The perplexed merchant
replies that he does not have that type of coal in stock. The caller
tiredly explains that it's French. The coal merchant says "Oh! Would
you like the coal cul de sac or a la cart?"

Ok - I won't tell any more ....

Eugene L Griessel

I have always been interested in the problem of juvenile
delinquency. And I made a great contribution to it's solution
by growing up.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:8llvc7dt484l5ni6f...@4ax.com...

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:51:03 -0800, "La N."
> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>We don't speak Latin in Canada.
>
> Seeing as it's Friday night I'll risk a Canadian joke:
> Someone in Quebec rings up the rather dim-witted coal merchant and ask
> for six tons of coal, "s'il vous plait". The perplexed merchant
> replies that he does not have that type of coal in stock. The caller
> tiredly explains that it's French. The coal merchant says "Oh! Would
> you like the coal cul de sac or a la cart?"
>
> Ok - I won't tell any more ....
>

Heh. Lame. But certainly a joke a furriner would tell ....:)

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:05:35 -0800, "La N."

<nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message
>news:8llvc7dt484l5ni6f...@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:51:03 -0800, "La N."
>> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We don't speak Latin in Canada.
>>
>> Seeing as it's Friday night I'll risk a Canadian joke:
>> Someone in Quebec rings up the rather dim-witted coal merchant and ask
>> for six tons of coal, "s'il vous plait". The perplexed merchant
>> replies that he does not have that type of coal in stock. The caller
>> tiredly explains that it's French. The coal merchant says "Oh! Would
>> you like the coal cul de sac or a la cart?"
>>
>> Ok - I won't tell any more ....
>>
>
>Heh. Lame. But certainly a joke a furriner would tell ....:)

I'm standing on a stool with my trousers down and singing "I'm a
little teapot" as penance.

Eugene L Griessel

Earth first...we'll mine the other planets later.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:i9mvc7hnars1qjtlk...@4ax.com...

//me// takes icepick to the sight portion of my brain.

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:12:20 -0800, "La N."

<nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message
>news:i9mvc7hnars1qjtlk...@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:05:35 -0800, "La N."
>> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message
>>>news:8llvc7dt484l5ni6f...@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:51:03 -0800, "La N."
>>>> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>We don't speak Latin in Canada.
>>>>
>>>> Seeing as it's Friday night I'll risk a Canadian joke:
>>>> Someone in Quebec rings up the rather dim-witted coal merchant and ask
>>>> for six tons of coal, "s'il vous plait". The perplexed merchant
>>>> replies that he does not have that type of coal in stock. The caller
>>>> tiredly explains that it's French. The coal merchant says "Oh! Would
>>>> you like the coal cul de sac or a la cart?"
>>>>
>>>> Ok - I won't tell any more ....
>>>>
>>>
>>>Heh. Lame. But certainly a joke a furriner would tell ....:)
>>
>> I'm standing on a stool with my trousers down and singing "I'm a
>> little teapot" as penance.
>>
>
>//me// takes icepick to the sight portion of my brain.
>

Better use it on the hearing portion as well - you ain't heard me sing
yet.

Eugene L Griessel

If I sell a horse, I won't guarantee it has a leg on each corner: the
buyer must count them himself.

[Alex Potter]

Eugene Griessel wrote:

> I'm standing on a stool with my trousers down and singing "I'm a
> little teapot" as penance.
>

<boggle>
--
Alex

[Eugene Griessel]

Keep talking like that and I'll post an mp4! Well, maybe a bit much -
especially on an empty stomach. An mp3 then. Sorry - offer withdrawn
just been served a court order to prevent me singing. Pesky
neighbours complaining about cracked windows, startled cats and
fleeing mice.
.

Eugene L Griessel

Giving money and power to government is like
giving booze and cars to teenage boys.

[Dennis]

La N. wrote:

> This time last year I was living near Regina. If you had referred to
> it as Rejeena, you would have been laughed out of town and called
> "gay" or something.

Do you pronounce it like 'vagina'?

Dennis

[La N.]

"Dennis" <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9FA89AD3E67F5ts...@130.133.4.11...

Yes, Canadians pronounce it like "vagina".

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

As do all English speaking countries.

Eugene L Griessel

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:0v20d7l3hrgienipp...@4ax.com...

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:36:49 -0800, "La N."
> <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Dennis" <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:Xns9FA89AD3E67F5ts...@130.133.4.11...
>>> La N. wrote:
>>>
>>>> This time last year I was living near Regina. If you had referred to
>>>> it as Rejeena, you would have been laughed out of town and called
>>>> "gay" or something.
>>>
>>> Do you pronounce it like 'vagina'?
>>>
>>
>>Yes, Canadians pronounce it like "vagina".
>
> As do all English speaking countries.
>

Yes. We do not need correcting, thankyaveddymuch. btw, I think I'll pass
on touring and photographing this ship. I'm all shipped out for the time
being.

- nil

[Alex Potter]

Shame - would have been good for scaring off the crows.

--
Alex

[Ray O'Hara]

"La N." <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:jap1pl$9mn$1...@dont-email.me...

American's know how to pronounce the name of the city in Canuckistan.
We say the woman's name Re gee na but the city re GI na.

[Dennis]

Do the city's finance's get a regular Reginal examination?

Dennis

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:37:02 +0000, Alex Potter

Crows shmoes - it's the unbearable cruelty to the cockroaches they are
complaining about. We seem to have a bit of a plague of them this
year, cockroaches that is. Foreign guests at even the poshest hotels
are running into the things regularly! Crows - there are only about
half a dozen living in this area - although the things we call crows
and the things that are called crows in Merrie England are probably
two different critters. According to wiki ours are only found south
of Ethiopia it would appear although they do belong to the same genus
as English crows.


Eugene L Griessel

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of politics.

[Eugene Griessel]

On 26 Nov 2011 06:32:11 GMT, Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I speculate so.

Eugene L Griessel

Sex - The only game that is never called off because of poor light.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:ap21d7l0qktdqma6c...@4ax.com...

> On 26 Nov 2011 06:32:11 GMT, Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>La N. wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Dennis" <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns9FA89AD3E67F5ts...@130.133.4.11...
>>>> La N. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This time last year I was living near Regina. If you had referred to
>>>>> it as Rejeena, you would have been laughed out of town and called
>>>>> "gay" or something.
>>>>
>>>> Do you pronounce it like 'vagina'?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, Canadians pronounce it like "vagina".
>>
>>Do the city's finance's get a regular Reginal examination?
>
> I speculate so.
>

We've heard them all ... heh ... here you guys:

http://www.iwilldare.com/2007/06/13/regina-rhymes-with-fun/

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:gt41d71jddtlheaq9...@4ax.com...

I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of such
things.

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:28:54 -0800, "La N."

I know an ostrich that's much the same - keeps it head buried in the
sand. There was a movie, in the seventies I think, titled "No sex
please, we're British" - which was of course the biggest load of bull
going as Britain, despite it's attempts to appear otherwise, has
always been a seething hive of concupiscence. Beware those places
that pretend that such matters do not occur - those are where it is
most rife!

Eugene L Griessel

Book (n): a utensil used to pass time while waiting
for the TV repairman.

[Jeff]

>>>
>>> Do you pronounce it like 'vagina'?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, Canadians pronounce it like "vagina".
>
> Do the city's finance's get a regular Reginal examination?
>
> Dennis

What else can you expect from a country that pronounces Colin as Co-lin
rather than col-in!!

Jeff

[La N.]

"Jeff" <je...@jsystems.com> wrote in message
news:jaqe29$ta$2...@speranza.aioe.org...

Eh? Get oot!

- nilita

[Eugene Griessel]

Eh? Get it oot fer the lads! (Local cry in strip joints.)

Eugene L Griessel

A 'pacifist male' is a contradiction in terms. Most self described
'pacifists' are not pacific they simply assume false colours. When the wind
changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.

[Paul J. Adam]

What are you talking aboot?


--
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

[Dennis]

La N. wrote:

>> Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?
>
> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of such
> things.

??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us notoriously
crass Americans.

Dennis

[Uncle Steve]

Idiot.



Regards,

Uncle Steve

--
We can't all be intelligent, but at least we can be polite.
-- H. J. Paton, "The Modern Predicament"

[La N.]

"Dennis" <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:Xns9FA9BED47B7D7ts...@130.133.4.11...

Oh, you've met my daughter, the budding comic then .. heheh.

btw, you might have also heard that we Canucks also have an ironic sense of
humour ... an example of my response to Eugene ...;)

- nil

[Andrew Chaplin]

Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns9FA9BED47B7D7ts...@130.133.4.11:

Yes, but we're prudes at the same time--not a useful combination.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

[Eugene Griessel]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:10 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
<ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:

>Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news:Xns9FA9BED47B7D7ts...@130.133.4.11:
>
>> La N. wrote:
>>
>>>> Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?
>>>
>>> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of
>>> such things.
>>
>> ??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us
>> notoriously crass Americans.
>
>Yes, but we're prudes at the same time--not a useful combination.

The mind boggles.

Eugene L Griessel

The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:4jk4d7dnamntbuavc...@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:10 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
> <ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
>
>>Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
>>news:Xns9FA9BED47B7D7ts...@130.133.4.11:
>>
>>> La N. wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?
>>>>
>>>> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of
>>>> such things.
>>>
>>> ??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us
>>> notoriously crass Americans.
>>
>>Yes, but we're prudes at the same time--not a useful combination.
>
> The mind boggles.
>

You have to go to Quebec for all the action ...;>

- nil.

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:4jk4d7dnamntbuavc...@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:10 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
> <ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
>
>>Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
>>news:Xns9FA9BED47B7D7ts...@130.133.4.11:
>>
>>> La N. wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?
>>>>
>>>> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of
>>>> such things.
>>>
>>> ??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us
>>> notoriously crass Americans.
>>
>>Yes, but we're prudes at the same time--not a useful combination.
>
> The mind boggles.
>

This might give you a good explanation, Eugene. We Canucks are direct
descendants of Neanderthals:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111125-neanderthals-sex-humans-dna-science-extinct/?source=link_fb20111126news-neanderthalsextinct

- nil

[Eugene Griessel]

I hate to throw water on the idea but I have a near neighbour who is a
born Quebecois(?). A couple of years ago he and his missus decided to
immigrate (she's Austrian/Hungarian). They lasted a few months and
were back here. She claimed they did not bury the dead there - just
seated them in restaurants. Dunno if they hit a particularly staid
spot in time or place but she claimed even Koekenaap in Namaqualand
had more life. She is a rather wild Germanic lady so perhaps the
ambience just did not suit her?

Eugene L Griessel

Concerto (n): a fight between a piano and a pianist.

[Eugene Griessel]

Nonsense - Neanderthals were good, honest fun-loving people. More
like descendants of Australopithecine robustus. With toothache!

I must admit it's a facet of the Canadian character that has never
really impinged on me. I just naturally assumed with all those lovely
log cabins with roaring fires, polar bear rugs and good Canadian
rotgut (I've seen it in the movies so don't try an tell me it's not
true) that things were a bit more relaxed. Stir in a drop or two of
French blood and whammo! Eskimo Nel came from those vicinities did
she not?

[La N.]

"Eugene Griessel" <eug...@dynagen.co.za> wrote in message

news:pl55d71k306jq7h06...@4ax.com...

We tend to be demure when speaking of what happens indoors on those cold
winter nights. You'll have to read about it in books, I'm afraid.

- nil

[Dennis]

La N. wrote:

> "Dennis" wrote in message

>> La N. wrote:
>>
>>>> Will it upset my standing as an amateur gynaecologist?
>>>
>>> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of
>>> such things.
>>
>> ??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us
>> notoriously
>> crass Americans.
>
> Oh, you've met my daughter, the budding comic then .. heheh.

She seems rather demure to me.

No, I saw that in a cultural chart that included such matters. The Aussies
are also supposed to be quite blunt. I didn't think anyone could be worse
than us!

> btw, you might have also heard that we Canucks also have an ironic
> sense of humour ... an example of my response to Eugene ...;)

I hadn't heard that! I didn't think you were really prudes. No one can
figure out us Americans. We're prudes and obsessed with sex too.

In Paris I once got a French mag on picking up women. The article on
picking up American women said, "So far as sex goes, they're an odd mix of
puritanism and liberalism; forbidden things shock them and excite them
tremendously at the same time." That's the Froggies' assessment.

Dennis

[Eugene Griessel]

On 28 Nov 2011 20:57:56 GMT, Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

It's the seffrican assessment of US women too. What we call the "Ooh
- you're awful! Let's do it again" syndrome.

Eugene L Griessel

Can atheists get insurance for an act of God?

[Eugene Griessel]

On 28 Nov 2011 20:57:56 GMT, Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>No, I saw that in a cultural chart that included such matters. The Aussies
>are also supposed to be quite blunt. I didn't think anyone could be worse
>than us!

Ah well - better stay away from us then.

Eugene L Griessel

Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.

[Dennis]

La N. wrote:

>>>>> I dunno, Eugene ... I'm Canadian, we're polite and don't speak of
>>>>> such things.
>>>>
>>>> ??? I heard that Canadians were even more plain-spoken than us
>>>> notoriously crass Americans.
>>>
>>>Yes, but we're prudes at the same time--not a useful combination.
>>
>> The mind boggles.
>
> This might give you a good explanation, Eugene. We Canucks are direct
> descendants of Neanderthals:
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111125-neanderthals-sex
> -humans-dna-science-extinct/?source=link_fb20111126news-neanderthalsext
> inct

Apparently most humans are! So the best way to eradicate a race is to
intermingle with them? Egad! What's a racist to do? It'd be interesting
if Hitler could have seen this. David Duke still could... He's in Austria
ATM...

Dennis

[Eugene Griessel]

On 28 Nov 2011 21:26:48 GMT, Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

There is currently only one race (or species) on earth - Homo sapiens
(and that was a misnomer if ever there was). Homo neandertalensis
was a separate species - DNA shited them out of the sub-species
category some years back. Like horses and donkeys such closely
relates species could mate and produce offspring but it would be very
unlikely the offspring would be fertile. So with Homo sapiens moving
into the area, being better, bigger and wealthier it is likely that
matings regularly took place between sapiens men and neandertal women
- with the result that there was a lot of sterile offspring. The
reverse is unlikely to have happened too frequently. With dwindling
resources and other problems they finally died out about 26000 years
ago. But they lived in close proximity to sapiens for more than 10000
years in some places.

Eugene L Griessel

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join
you in your troubles.

[Andrew Chaplin]

Dennis <tsalagi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns9FAB9840C7B5Fts...@130.133.4.11:

> La N. wrote:
<snip>

>> btw, you might have also heard that we Canucks also have an ironic
>> sense of humour ... an example of my response to Eugene ...;)
>
> I hadn't heard that! I didn't think you were really prudes. No one
> can figure out us Americans. We're prudes and obsessed with sex too.

Our prudishness is a matter of historical fact. During BM1, there were
frequent remarks in letters home about how much music hall entertainment
was smutty without being witty. During BM2, there were similar remarks,
particularly about British official entertainments. When Maj-Gen Chris
Vokes, GOC 1 Cdn Inf Div, the most clapped-out (literally) formation in
8th Army, sanctioned the op of a brothel under supervision of med staff,
some bonehead wrote home to mummy, who wrote to an M.P., who raised it in
the House. Monty issued an edict against brothels, even though they were
bringing down the VD rates.

From my own experience, the twice yearly shows mounted for deployed
Canadian troops in the '70s, '80s and '90s included none of the Playboy
bunnies that went on tour to U.S. troops.

[Dennis]

Andrew Chaplin wrote:

> Dennis wrote

>
>> La N. wrote:
> <snip>
>>> btw, you might have also heard that we Canucks also have an ironic
>>> sense of humour ... an example of my response to Eugene ...;)
>>
>> I hadn't heard that! I didn't think you were really prudes. No one
>> can figure out us Americans. We're prudes and obsessed with sex too.
>
> Our prudishness is a matter of historical fact. During BM1, there were
> frequent remarks in letters home about how much music hall
> entertainment was smutty without being witty. During BM2, there were
> similar remarks, particularly about British official entertainments.
> When Maj-Gen Chris Vokes, GOC 1 Cdn Inf Div, the most clapped-out
> (literally) formation in 8th Army, sanctioned the op of a brothel
> under supervision of med staff, some bonehead wrote home to mummy, who
> wrote to an M.P., who raised it in the House. Monty issued an edict
> against brothels, even though they were bringing down the VD rates.
>
> From my own experience, the twice yearly shows mounted for deployed
> Canadian troops in the '70s, '80s and '90s included none of the
> Playboy bunnies that went on tour to U.S. troops.

That's *really* bad! Is/was it a matter of the higher-ups or is it
everyone? In BM1 it was plainly everyone.

In BM1 the Yanks were shocked but fascinated, as per my earlier remark. ,
You know they old saying, how'll you keep them down on the farm, now that
they've seen Paree? My Grandad did stay on the farm all his life
afterward, though; it helped that he owned it.

Dennis

[Eugene Griessel]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:38:08 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
<ab.ch...@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:

>Our prudishness is a matter of historical fact. During BM1, there were
>frequent remarks in letters home about how much music hall entertainment
>was smutty without being witty. During BM2, there were similar remarks,
>particularly about British official entertainments. When Maj-Gen Chris
>Vokes, GOC 1 Cdn Inf Div, the most clapped-out (literally) formation in
>8th Army, sanctioned the op of a brothel under supervision of med staff,
>some bonehead wrote home to mummy, who wrote to an M.P., who raised it in
>the House. Monty issued an edict against brothels, even though they were
>bringing down the VD rates.
>
>From my own experience, the twice yearly shows mounted for deployed
>Canadian troops in the '70s, '80s and '90s included none of the Playboy
>bunnies that went on tour to U.S. troops.

War is hell.

Eugene L Griessel

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will
be misquoted, then used against you.

[Dennis]

Eugene Griessel wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:38:08 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
> <ab.om> wrote:
>
>>Our prudishness is a matter of historical fact. During BM1, there were
>>frequent remarks in letters home about how much music hall
>>entertainment was smutty without being witty. During BM2, there were
>>similar remarks, particularly about British official entertainments.
>>When Maj-Gen Chris Vokes, GOC 1 Cdn Inf Div, the most clapped-out
>>(literally) formation in 8th Army, sanctioned the op of a brothel
>>under supervision of med staff, some bonehead wrote home to mummy, who
>>wrote to an M.P., who raised it in the House. Monty issued an edict
>>against brothels, even though they were bringing down the VD rates.
>>
>>From my own experience, the twice yearly shows mounted for deployed
>>Canadian troops in the '70s, '80s and '90s included none of the
>>Playboy bunnies that went on tour to U.S. troops.
>
> War is hell.

That reminds me of the USO scene in 'Acocalypse Now', and the narrator's
voiceover... 'Charlie didn't get much USO; some rice, a little rat
meat...'

> Eugene L Griessel
>
> You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will
> be misquoted, then used against you.

That was what they told us about dealing with the press.

Dennis