@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
Negative. One must merely be familiar with the Noel Coward piece of doggerel which states that "only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun."
Ding ding ding ding ding, give that man a cigar. I remember the doggerel but it was used in an obscure movie possibly in the 60's, Easy Rider at a 'happening' with neophyte hippies dancing in long johns chanting that part "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun". (If anyone knows the actual movie, please share it) And at another point at the festival someone singing, (apologies, the lyrics I can only remember in bits) Do your bags hang low, can you swing em two and fro, can you tie em in a knot or tie em in a bow, can you swing em over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your bags hang low. Apologies to anyone who thinks that's vulgar, it probably is but in context it was so funny.
And I was very young, and my family members are world class collectors of obscure info and without peers when it comes to Irish Smart Assery. In fact, it's entirely possible that Lustig is my long lost cousin. I'll close with, be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box. Up until 1974, the sacrifices were spread out around the US, now it's all volunteer and no one wants to send their children off on a futile mission. Thank you, Dick Cheney