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Old 27th January 2011, 01:59 PM   #8 (permalink)
mosaix
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Re: Snappy comments

Just been reading Somme Mud, there's a great exchange between a First-World-War Australian soldier about to embark for the journey home to Australia and a medical assistant:

Soldier: "What's the inoculation for?"

Assistant: "It's to prevent you Australians marrying all the pretty English girls."

Soldier: "It's fortunate for you that your face saved you from the need to be inoculated."
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