Another milestone (?) for the forum.
Ian's post above was number 123456.....Huzzah !!  
Cheers - Phil.
P.S......You forgot Aztecs, Ian.

Indeed. Jolly bad form. In my day we'd have been horsewhipped for saying "catholic" at a formal dinner.

Some visiting Spaniard tried to raise a toast to "His Most Catholic Majesty" and was immediately set upon by subalterns and beaten with knotted ropes.

I once described myself as having a catholic taste in music and was sent by the mess president to sit in a cold bath for 4 hours 33 minutes.

Then of course, there was poor Carruthers who said that his "tailor's bill was due", and this was taken to mean that he was a bankrupt who owed money to to the Yiddish speaking chap who made his mess jackets. Poor Carruthers was cashiered. Ended up in Parliament. True story.

Happy days.

 

But I wasn't discussing religion.  It was geography, Honest.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 10 August 2014, 07:53:17 AM
NO RELIGON, SEX or politics in the mess.

IanS

Well, that rules out 95% of human conversation, then.

And over in the UK.....The other 5% is taken up by the weather. 
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2014, 07:56:15 AM
P.S......You forgot Aztecs, Ian.

Phil - stop swearing - alternatively I'm trying too, but keep getting mauled by a ferocious kitten.

IanS

Mew!

Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2014, 07:56:15 AM
Ian's post above was number 123456.....Huzzah !! 

Techno; Pendraken's Rainman.

OI !!

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 August 2014, 01:00:00 PM
Mew!

That da*md cat got back in......


Must sacrifice it the sun god. Kitten Curry anyone ?

IanS

You want to eat a .... Um....

Steady, that man !
Cheers - Phil

That's what I will be telling the surgeon.

An Indian granny who ran a veggie take-away in Cape Town tried very earnestly to persuade me not to move to Thailand. "They eat cats there, Alexander! Really!" Mind you, she'd tried to persuade me that the bronze Ganesh next to the till drank a glass of milk every evening too.

When I worked for the life-assurance company in Joburg every proposal we got from an Indian client specified "diabetes" in the medical ailments section. What does that tell you about the Indian diet?