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Post by gary on May 1, 2007 9:24:51 GMT -6
Anyone who regularly reads these message boards may be interested in the Custer Association of Great Britain (CAGB), which publishes a bi-annual journal, The Crow's Nest, and which meets at least twice per year. The next meeting is in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 9th 2007. For details of membership (not limited to Brits!) and meetings, go to: www.custer-association-gb.org.uk
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 3, 2007 12:32:35 GMT -6
Thanks to my former good friend Gordon Richard, the current issue of The Crow's Nest has a terrible photo of me sandwiched by Gordon and his brother.
That will teach me not to hang out in the casino before going to the battlefield . . . .
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Post by harpskiddie on May 3, 2007 15:09:51 GMT -6
Is that a hint to try to get one? Or to avoid it at all hazards?
Gordie, are you responsible for that mud in the hall, Gordon. No sir, it fell off my football boots. Blame them.
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Post by gary on May 3, 2007 15:24:48 GMT -6
Evaluate the evidence first hand.
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 4, 2007 12:02:06 GMT -6
It's an awful photo of me, so don't waste your money on my account. My avatar looks much more like me.
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Post by gary on Oct 10, 2007 11:12:34 GMT -6
Hi Diane,
Do you mind me using the message boards to notify British members (and any visitors from overseas who may be interested) that the Custer Association of Great Britain is having its Autumn (Fall) meeting on 10th November 2007 in Birmingham?
The meeting will be at The Chestnut Tree, 208 Sheldon Heath Road, Birmingham, B26 2RY, from 9.45 am until 4.30 pm, with breaks for refreshments and lunch.
There will be talks by Mike Fox, Peter Russell, Lawrence Sherrington and Kevin Galvin, as well as a Custer-based quiz!
If anyone would like further details, directions etc they can contact me by e-mail: gml@tcp.co.uk
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Post by harpskiddie on Oct 10, 2007 16:25:05 GMT -6
gary:
I don't know what Diane's response will be, but I for one do not think it at all appropriate to be trumpeting that the Custer Association of Great Britain [all three members] will be having its Autumn meeting in Birmingham on 10 November 2007 [just in time for Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, as we Canadians call it].
Furthermore if you WERE to post that the Autumn meeting of the Custer Association of Great Britain will be held in Birmingham on 10 November 2007, I would take umbrage [and a double order of fish and chips].
Therefore I would respectfully request that you not bother tying up our valuable bandwidth [for which I have paid nothing] with such a posting, and especially do not tell us about The Chestnut Tree, 208 Sheldon Heath Road [who makes up these pastoral-sounding names anyway?] or that there will be breaks for refreshments [read pints] and lunch [read more pints].
You Englishmen have a big nerve. Were I you, I would hie me to The Chestnut Tree [undoubtedly a public house of some sort] 208 Sheldon Heath Road, Birmingham, on 10 November 2007, and find those three guys who belong to the Custer Association of Great Britain, and rouse them from their naps - and tell them that we will be sending an armed emissary [he had two, last we looked] in 2009, and that they had best be prepared.
With pints and two orders of fish and chips.
Gordie, all the blue bonnets are over the border............................................................................
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 10, 2007 17:06:51 GMT -6
Gordie, how can you be so uncouth? Fish and chips? Fish, chips and mushy peas please! And wrapped up in a newspaper!!
Hunk
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 10, 2007 17:10:54 GMT -6
gary-
I have to agree with everything that Gordie said. Outrageous!
If I wasn't just a 'little short of the ready' right now, I would climb on a plane, fly over there, drag you into a pub and tell you so to your face.
M
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 10, 2007 18:58:30 GMT -6
Gordie needs to get his facts straight before attacking poor Gary.
The CAGB has at least FOUR members, all of whom are speaking at their next meeting at The Chestnut Tree, 208 Sheldon Heath Road, Birmingham, B26 2RY, from 9.45 am until 4.30 pm, with breaks for refreshments and lunch.
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Post by harpskiddie on Oct 10, 2007 22:51:16 GMT -6
Diane:
Maybe the speakers are not all members [talk about preaching to the choir], and I've had mushy peas [we have them over here too, Hunk, but no thanks]. We are no longer able to wrap fish and chips in newspaper - haven't been for several decades now, but I can remember when it was the norm. It apparently is unhealthy, but I don't remember anyone dying of newsprint poisoning when I was a kid.
We had a Fish and Chips half a block away from where I grew up in Toronto - We Fry Halibut Only - Try Fish and Chips just for the Halibut - where one fish and an order of chips was 15 cents, 10 cents extra for another fish. You could feed the whole family on Friday night for a buck, and most Fridays, that's what we ate. I used to stop in for a box of chips on my way to the movie show, of which we had a half dozen within as many blocks.
Full orders were always wrapped in a light wax paper, and then in newspaper pages [ours were broadsheet], and you ate them by tearing the end off the package and sticking your grubby little fingers into the steamy, dreamy depths. Sometimes the chips would start to get soggy and fall apart as you attempted to get them out. The battered fish was usually hot enough to scald your mouth.
At home, of course, you served them up on plates, with some good crusty bread and butter. No salad. This before the age of television, at least television in the homes of most.
Gordie, now it's cod, extra for halibut - but thankfully, I have a decent spot not too far from me, that serves all you can eat for 8.50, including a cup of clam chowder as a starter.......................
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 10, 2007 23:22:20 GMT -6
Point well taken, Gordie, so you're off the hook (not to continue the fish talk). I know Russell and Galvin are and Fox most likely is. I don't know the Sherrington fellow.
I don't think I've had "real" fish and chips, just the kind they serve at Long John Silver's or a similar chain. I guess I haven't lived. . . .
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Post by Montana Bab on Oct 11, 2007 0:05:09 GMT -6
I don't know about you Diane, but I'll eat just about anything just to get to the Halibut! (Food for the Halibut). Montana
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Post by gary on Oct 11, 2007 10:09:23 GMT -6
Thank you all for your contributions.
If you come to the meeting, not only will you enjoy illuminating talks on the LBH, but you will also have the chance to lunch on such Brit delicacies as steak pie, cod and chips and gammon steaks.
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Post by Montana Bab on Oct 11, 2007 10:36:53 GMT -6
Gary, Not being very "worldly" may I ask what is a gammon steak? We didn't have those in Montana, that I know of!
Bab
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