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Old 1st Sep 2010, 10:05
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Chugalug2
 
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Some sundry types, including mandatory hicopleter, on the Kuching apron taken from Hastings executing an approved run in and break.

BTW Oldduffer, not sure I'm enamoured of your:
The weighing of Gurkhas has substance in fact - but not in Borneo.
I don't doubt your story, just wonder why you doubt mine. The guy concerned wasn't given to line shooting, no doubt the Butchers Scales were the jungle equivalent of your man's bathroom scales, there being a lack of hard floors in the jungle to set them down on of course. If the quote above included the word "only" after "not" then honour would be satisfied and my second could be recalled,,,,,
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