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--- 197712 [2019/03/22 10:05] – vievems
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 __Twenty-Fifth Birthday__
-A quarter century! The years are flying -
+A quarter century! The years are flying -\\
-Where are the prophets who so oft have said:
+Where are the prophets who so oft have said:\\
-"The Club is doomed". "The Club is slowly dying"?
+"The Club is doomed". "The Club is slowly dying"?\\
 Believe me, we are not yet wholly dead.
-Still when the bus disgorges us for Era
+Still when the bus disgorges us for Era\\
-Our hearts leap with the old remembered thrill
+Our hearts leap with the old remembered thrill\\
-As, tottering down the track, we pee draw nearer
+As, tottering down the track, we pee draw nearer\\
 The dunes, the valley, Peter Page's hill.
-Our mileage is not much, as speedsters reckon;
+Our mileage is not much, as speedsters reckon;\\
-We pause more often to admire the view;
+We pause more often to admire the view;\\
-But still we hobble out, when bushflowers beckon,
+But still we hobble out, when bushflowers beckon,\\
 Our troth with them each springtime to renew.
-Yearly we cut fresh notches in the tally
+Yearly we cut fresh notches in the tally\\
-Of mountain peaks we shall not climb again;
+Of mountain peaks we shall not climb again;\\
-Heights are for Youth! But we have still the valley,
+Heights are for Youth! But we have still the valley,\\
 The sunlit Cox, Eureka in the rain.
-Long may that Youth, and others who come after,
+Long may that Youth, and others who come after,\\
-Walk the bush tracks, seek out the life that's free,
+Walk the bush tracks, seek out the life that's free,\\
-Meet perils, scars - and hakea - with laughter
+Meet perils, scars - and hakea - with laughter\\
 Mingled at times with mild. profanity).
-And while we celebrate, not yet quite blotto,
+And while we celebrate, not yet quite blotto,\\
-We would exhort them this all things above:
+We would exhort them this all things above:\\
-To keep the good old independent motto
+To keep the good old independent motto\\
 Of S.B.W. - We won't be druv!
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 __Confused Counting__
-Use "say", "taegar" or "tin",
+Use "say", "taegar" or "tin",\\
-For the country you're in,
+For the country you're in,\\
-To count the amount of your pay.
+To count the amount of your pay.\\
-In Nepal your quota
+In Nepal your quota\\
-May only lie "yohtah",
+May only lie "yohtah",\\
 Have a care and not throw it away.
-In India the "anna"
+In India the "anna"\\
-Was quite an old manner
+Was quite an old manner\\
-To balance at end of the day;
+To balance at end of the day;\\
-Sixteen of these made up your "Rupees"
+Sixteen of these made up your "Rupees"\\
-If someone you had to repay.
+If someone you had to repay.\\
-But today it's the "paisa"
+But today it's the "paisa"\\
-You get in your pay sir!
+You get in your pay sir!\\
 As you count in the now modern way.
-When adding "Afghani"
+When adding "Afghani"\\
-You've obliged to use Farsi,
+You've obliged to use Farsi,\\
-But please, watch what you say;
+But please, watch what you say;\\
-Use "hasht" for a "haft"
+Use "hasht" for a "haft"\\
-And they'll think you are daft,
+And they'll think you are daft,\\
 And maybe will put you away.
-Whether "empart" or "enarm"?
+Whether "empart" or "enarm"?\\
-May pose quite a problem
+May pose quite a problem\\
-In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay.
+In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay.\\
-Here the business you're at
+Here the business you're at\\
-May be solved by a "chat",
+May be solved by a "chat",\\
 When computing at work or at play.
-If you laugh or you grin
+If you laugh or you grin\\
-At the trouble we're in,
+At the trouble we're in,\\
-Be warned and don't got blase;
+Be warned and don't got blase;\\
-If the "land of the gin"
+If the "land of the gin"\\
-Lets the Japanese in,
+Lets the Japanese in,\\
-Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",
+Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",\\
 And your grin may be turned the other way.
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 For those ignorant peasants illiterate in Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa Indonesia, Nepali and Burmese I append the following glossary:-
-Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi.
+Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi.\\
-Yohtahs: Nepali, counting objects.
+Yohtah: Nepali, counting objects.\\
-Anna: Out of date coin in India.
+Anna: Out of date coin in India.\\
-paisa = 1 Rupee or Afghani.
+paisa = 1 Rupee or Afghani.\\
-Afghani: Unit of currency in Afghanistan.
+Afghani: Unit of currency in Afghanistan.\\
-Hasht, haft: Farsi 7 and 8.
+Hasht, haft: Farsi 7 and 8.\\
-Empart and enarm: 4 and 6 in Indonesian.
+Empart and enarm: 4 and 6 in Indonesian.\\
-Chat or more properly Kyat: Unit of currency in Burma.
+Chat or more properly Kyat: Unit of currency in Burma.\\
 "Land of the gin": Australia.