The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-05-09, Page 22Bill Smiley
1 meet a lady in her nightie
1
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Last Week'scolumn, if you re-
', had a smashing ending. It
left Yeti* hero asleep in a small
111 a small town in Germany,
Lahr, home of most of the Cana-
dian Dlitto forces in Europe.
,Up betimes, after 14 hours
Sleep, and tottered down to the
dining room, smelling for coffee.
Hadn't eaten for 16 hours.
And it was there, sipping a cof-
fee and cognac, in an effort to get
the bones moving, that my crazy
kid brother, the Colonel, found
me at 7:30 a.m. We exchanged
our usual fond greetings.
Him: "Hello, you clot. Just up?
Supposed to be on our way.
Me: "Hello, clot. Yes. Who
cares? I'm dying."
Him: "You're getting a little
thin on top, like Dad."
Me: "You're getting a little
thick in the middle, like Mum."
The contrast between us was
never clearer. -He was spic and
span, gold braid gleaming,
fresh -shaven, full of beans, ready
to hit the road for Ramstein, his
base. I was in a rumpled flannel
shirt, sock feet, unwashed, un-
shaven, uncombed and ready to
hit him for showing up so early.
He's always like that. And I'm
always like that. He comes flying
out of nowhere, talks a blue
streak, tells a hundred stories
and goes dashing off to some-
where. I come dawdling out of
somewhere, sit around aS taci-
turn as a turtle, and go dawdling
off to nowhere.
He's a hustler; I'm ,a poke.
Perhaps that's why he's a colonel
and I'm more of a kernel.
Anyway, it's a great combu�}}a-
tion to throwtogether for a three-
day crash course on Germany -a
hustler and a poke.
I must say we didn't have a'
cross word in those three days.
Although I admit I thought he
was going to havea baby when he
came to pick me up for lunch with
the Commander -in -Chief, a four-
star general, and found me still in
bed. That was at 11:30; lunch at
twelve noon sharp "And you don't
keep generals waiting and we
have fifteen miles to drive." We
made it with 19 seconds to spare.
And he wasn't exactly chortling
when we started off to catch the
plane home and after we'd driven
like a bat out of hell for ten
minutes, I observed, "Gracious
to goodness, 'I've left all my
money in your apartment; we'll
have to go back." He didn't say a
word, but there was steam
coming out of his ears, and I think
he lost a fair bit of enamel off his
t$olars.
But that was later. Let's go
back to Lahr, where I left you
breathless to read what would
happen next: There we are. He is
hustling me out of the hotel and 1
am dawdling and poking in his
wake.
Lahr is something of a
company town, with the Cana-
dian forces as the "company".
The town itself has about 17,000
people, plus 12,000 Canadians on
the periphery. A big industry for
the town.
There are about 5,000 Cana-
dians in the military. The rest are
made up of families, teachers
and assorted odds and sods.
Canadian forces there make a
real effort to get along with the
German community and are
closely knitted with it. Interest-
ingly, the Canadians do all their
dealings in German marks, while
the Americans, at their bases
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At Lahr, the Canadians publish
a lively daily newspaper, Der
Kanadier; have their own chur-
ches; excellent schools; and
sports facilities galore. But of
course, it isn't home,
And the troops never forget
that they are there on serious
business, not on a European holi-
day.
I received an impression,
perhaps wrong, that the Cana-
dian forces feel that they are
somewhat forgotten, that the
folks at home are rather
apathetic about the boys in dark
green, the "violent, obedient
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This is not exactly assuaged by
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BETTER ENGLISH 1
By D. C. Williams 1
What is wrong with each ofthese
sentences?
1. It sounded like she in-
tended to go, but I was
not taken in by her state-
ment.
2. Just as I went to leave,
I slipped and fell down
on thy ground.
3. If it hadn't have been for
John, they would of
gone.
4. We left directly we were
finished with the work.
5. This tie cost half a dol-
lar, and .I am very dis-
appointed in it.
What , are the correct pronun-
ciations of these words?
6. Maracaibo (Venezuelan
city).
7. Respiratory.
8. Sophist.
9. Sayonara (Japanese for
"farewell").
10. Sycophant:
' ll. Octavo.
Which six words in ,the following
`t group are misspelled?
12. Parallel, •parady, para-
gon, neuralgia, eczema,
asthma, diptheria, repet-
dire, repartee, renege, re-
naissance, unweildy,
withall, withhold, weird,
numerology, numb -
.skull, neutron, exasper-
ate, exagerrate, excerpt,
excoriate.
ANSWERS
1. Say, "It sounded AS IF she
intended to go, but I was
not MISLED (or, DE-
CEIVED)
E-
CEIVED) by her statement. "
2. Say, "Just as I LEFT,
I slipped and fell (omit
'down') to the ground." 3.
Omit "have," and say, "If
it hadn't been for John, they
would HAVE gone." 4. Say,
"We left AS SOON AS we
HAD FINISHEDthework."
5. Say, "This tie cost a half -
dollar (preferred), and I am
very MUCH disappointed
WITH it."
6. Pronounce mar-a-kigh-boe,
accent third syllable. 7.
Either re-spy-ra-toe-ri, with
accent on second syllable, or
ress-pi-ra-toe-ri, with accent
on first syllable is correct
- although the latter pro-
nunciation is probably pre-
ferred. 8. Pronounce sof 1st,
accent first syllable. 9. Pro -
n ou n c e sah-yoe-nah-rah,
principal accent on third syl-
lable. 10. Pronounce sick -
oh -fent, accent first syllable.
1f. Pronounce ock-tay-vo,
accent second syllable.
12. Parody, diphtheria, reper-
toire, unwieldy, numskull,
exaggerate.
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By Gene Von
EASIER SLIDING
Overloaded dresser drawers
sometimes are very dirt to
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from 10,000 to $,000.
forcesare down from a
a brigade -group. The air ar*n hu
been whittled from ve squad
rods in 1064 to three ems. of
• attack fighters in 1.74. -
This hal, ,U ;you in the
service. But moraleis 111,03, (1434'"
pite the ancient Centurion. tanks
and we haire crack
-
ac>l good
troops in the front line, made Up
of tanks, commandos and infant-
ry.
In the air, we have, togtietea
forces in Europe. These have well -unformed ice (mybroth-
been cut approximately in two,
9, "The best pilots .Europa",
and I* mean* it, with no blare
They are all fighters, and they
have a vital rhe card "first et-
'tack». More of this later.
But let's, get back to Lahr, and
get on with this wretched trip of
mine• My brother is now hustling
me into his car. The town is pret-
ty with ap- flowers every-
where, a change from blizzards.
There is a. branch of the Bark of
Montrea01�, there is JackThoms
,
He's a first cousin of ours. They
Ove in Winnipeg. It could hap
only 4, me. I fly four t►d
males to savour the dent
hostelries, cathedrals and castles
of old Germany, and 1 wind up
sitting at a kitchen table talidng
and drinking with a cousin I've
root' once before' In my life.
1 don't thh* we'll make it th.
Ramstein, destination, but we'll
have a try next week,
Social note for Western read-
ers:.Cousin Jack was in his un'
derwear, and his wife in her
nightie, when we arrived.
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