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Subject: 'Fally Haunts and Guesthouse Games'

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 15:10:54 05/23/05 Mon

I too met another ex-squaddie who served in Fallingbostel. I've known him a long time, but didn't realise he too had served at that location. Well, we got to talk over a few drinks about our times there and the places that we used to hang out, so to speak. He remembered Klause's Bar very well and the Ratskellar. He was stationed with the 'Lancers' along from 3RTR. It certainly is a small world!....Don't you think?
Anyway we got onto the subject concerning drinking games that we participated in, particularly Dice games that used to be played in leather cups for beer mats usually with the guy that run the various establishments. Usually for drinks, mainly for shorts. Whether for Schnappes, or Ouzzo' that popular greek spirit! I remember playing 21's where 14 orders, 18 pays and 21 drinks. I forgot to mention that the drink could be anything alcoholic or a concoction of a number of different spirits, what we called a 'Berliner' basically a tot from every optic along the bar in one glass! A bloody lethal concoction. I remember playing this with such guys as Chris and Brandy Abbott and Willy Morgan and Richie Fieldhouse and various other characters of the time. Getting totally smashed out of one's brain! The Ratskellar was a regular haunt for such goings on that I can remember. Another popular game involved knocking a nail into a big chunk of wood that was mounted on a stand. The object of the exercise was to knock the nail flush into the wood, remembering that there was a group of people playing this. The rule being the last one to finish payed for the round of drinks for everyone that participated. It usually ended up quite expensive. The game became more serious depending on the amount of people that were playing. Bloody good fun never the less! Don't you think?......I could never understand why these games never took off in this country at the time. The Guesthouses were far more advanced over there in providing different entertainment than they were in this country of the time, suppose it comes down to different cultures. I think they we certainly had the best of it in them days!
What say you?

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