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Subject: Re: Becoming 'Mutt & Jeff'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 12:59:33 02/08/05 Tue
In reply to: Jim Martin 's message, "Becoming 'Mutt & Jeff'" on 12:03:35 02/08/05 Tue

>Leading on from the 25 Pdr 'Last Shoot in
>BAOR'.Unbeknown to me at the time. I started to
>develop what you could commonly call 'Gunner-ear'...No
>not Gonorrhoea! .....that anti -social disease so to
>speak!....I only found out some years later the extent
>of the Deafness in the one ear. The Gunner's Disease
>is what the quack called it!...So,basically my career
>on the Guns had finished as far as the Army was
>concerned!...I had to be content that the only
>'banging' I was allowed to participate in would be on
>one female or another. Dry-Firing depending on your
>point of view! Only consulation being that a fair-few
>of us Gun-bunnies did develope this sympton over the
>years. You only have to put a number of old
>Gun-bunnies in a room together to understand this.
>They only shout for more bloody beer.They have a
>tendancy to go a bit 'Mutt& Jeff' when asked "Who's
>round is it?"......So there is a positive side to
>having 'The Gunners Disease' .....after all! Don't you
>think?........Whats that I hear you say?....Ken Neville with his hand in his pocket!....He is gonna pay for the next round of Drinks!.....Nah,you must be mistaken.....We could'nt be that lucky......Could we?.....

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