our learned friend, like most of us, displays aspects of both conditions, the former far outweighing the latter. There are parallels that could be drawn, just occasionally, between our man and a 'silver budgie' in the making incident, one at a cricket match at Oxford where the latter was drinking his way through a rhode scholarship. At lunch, just prior to RJLH's appearance at the crease, he was obliged to knock back several Kummels. Went out and was first ball bowled for a duck.
Oh them poms sometimes pull it off perfect , for up on the board straight off went -
HAWKE BOWLED KUMMEL - 0
now in the blue corner - creamie, shaping up nicely , and in the red , kharon, looking none the worse for wear after a Kilkenny lunch, but in need of a bit more rosin on the shoes, to offset some darkish looking muck that looks just a bit like . . . . no, not on his boots.
The common thought and aim here is to concentrate on the devil, not his
adversaries.
And as a foot note, here must be appended that deathless injunction from the
US general to one of his staff in the dark days of the war -
"How many times have ah gotta tell you, son, if you're in the ****, for chrissake, DON'T TRACK IT." ?
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