This one made me lauch too. Had te be carefull a bit though as I am in the
office now.
Talking about feeling inadequate:
> Your loving daughter,
>
> Sheila
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Made my day! Thanks.
> Datum: 26/11/08 10:14 AM
> Van: "Jez Cunningham"
> Aan: "Olympus Camera Discussion"
> CC:
> Onderwerp : [OM] [OT] To make Andrew laugh before they cut him open...: Life
> in the Australian Army
>
> Sorry for the non-Oly content, but this had me ROTFLMAO!
>
> Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad.
>
> (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town, west of
> Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland bloody miles from anywhere)
>
> Dear Mum & Dad,
>
> I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the
> Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick
> smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at
> first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping
> in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots
> and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to
> stack - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz
> there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!
> At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or
> possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by
> that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route
> march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back
> paddock!!
>
> This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting
> medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's
> bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did
> when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last
> year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's
> a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in
> little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of
> the roo shooting truck when you reload!
>
> Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful
> coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and
> Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
>
> Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the
> platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the
> Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 17 stone and three pick handles across the
> shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but
> I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
>
> I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word
> gets around how bloody good it is.
>
> Your loving daughter,
>
> Sheila
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