From major@shuksan.UUCP Mon Feb 6 18:30:03 1989
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From: major@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Schmitt)
Subject: Inaccurate Titles
Keywords: rec_humor_cull, chuckle
Date: 7 Feb 89 00:30:03 GMT
Organization: The Boeing Co., BAC MMST, Seattle, WA
> (sargeant major in pompous voice - british accent)
Three English gentlemen, all properly attired, were sitting in a train
compartment while traveling thru the English countryside. All three busily
engrossed in reading their London Times. Naturally, not having been
properly introduced, they did not speak to each other. The quiet in the
compartment was disturbing.
Finally, one gentleman, put his paper down and declared, (in your best
veddy veddy British accent), "Sir James Hyde-White, here. Brigadier,
retired. Oxford, '59. Married. Two sons, both Royal Marine officers," and
promptly went back to reading his paper.
A short while later, the second gentleman put down his paper and declared,
(again, in very upper class british accent), "Sir Jonathen Colin-Simpson,
here. Brigadier, retired. Eton, '61. Married. Two sons, both Royal Air
Force pilots," and he promptly went back to reading his paper.
A few miles down the track, the third gentleman put down his paper and
stated, (now use your best irish-cockney accent), "Ian McTavish 'ere.
Sergeant Major, retired. Coldstream Guards. Not married. Two sons.
Both Brigadiers."
