An apology

John Kielly

John Kielly

Shari's fan club
It's not easy contributing to a forum when you're half a world away & only on the periphery of the game anyway. We describe forums as being like club houses & how we contribute about the same as how we chew the fat after a match, but it really ain't so.

We don't know a whole lot of contributers at all except by how they write & maybe in some cases, depending on what handle they use, by their successes - but we don't get to see their faces & we don't know whether they welcome us, whether they're just being polite or whether they just tolerate us. The only time we actually know where we stand is when we get flamed.

Today I read a damned fine posting, one that wasn't benchrest oriented, but highlighted the sort of value that we all hold dear, namely family. I was pretty impressed, as I guess any of you who got to read it were, but I handled my delight wrong. Rather than say something straightforward nice or just shut up, I had to use a bit of an Aussie style joke, but I'm guessing it was taken as sarcasm. There's no excuse, I should have known that we have a different slant on things.

Anyway, sorry Al. I can't reverse what's happened buy maybe I'm smart enough to learn from it.

John
 
John Kelley,

You are a true gentleman. I have always enjoyed your threads. You have a wonderful gift that we call in Texas a "dry sense of humor".

I am proud to count you among my friends.

Concho Bill
 
A gentleman indeed...it's just a coffee cup but I am raising it to John! Takes a big man to write that.
 
character!

John, I did not read what you joked about. But to be man enough to apologize so eloquently, completely, and on your own initiative speaks volumes of your character. The world would be a better place if all had that much character.

I enjoy your postings and sense of humor also!

Take care!
Greg
 
John, My mates from Oz, Stuart and Annie Elliott, Phil Jones, Fergus Bailey, Gavin Marshall, Sully, John Cook, and many others are just so much fun to be around. I think of you as Texans that just happen to live in Australia. Your sense of humor is a little sharp from time to time, but after the Elliotts staying with us a few weeks at a time a few different times, we now understand and laugh at the same things. How about a run on sentence.
John, I have enjoyed your post and look forward to more.
Butch
 
John, I have on a few occasions really..........

appreciated your comments, envious at times at the rapier-like skewers they were. Sometimes I had to scratch my head,"......is it me??? Oh, must be an Aussie take on it....." Don't stop, John, I know you don't mean to offend, I'm hoping Al didn't get his feelings hurt so bad a little Bondo & a fender hammer won't straighten out in a little time. And Al, if you're out there baitin' a hook, enjoy yourself, that kind of therapy will heal anything; live for the moment. You are truly a lucky man to have the time to spend with your sons in those pursuits. Not everyone is able to have the kind of sons who want to spend the time with their fathers; the fact that you are a father who has sons who WANT to spend time with you speaks volumes about you....and them. I'm sure that anywhere in the world there are fathers, and want-to-be fathers who enjoy, and live vicariously, in those tales. I didn't get to read it, but I wish I had, it probably would have brightened my day........I'm one of those guys.
 
John,
Have no fear, as I, in visiting your land for 6 month made enough gaffes to last a life time.
It took that visit to remind me of different worlds, but the same interest.
And now I know how th spell, MUCKADILLA, Q.
Great 10 point grass Range to 1000yds.
Heres on you.

Larry
 
Butch Lambert said:
John, I think of you as Texans that just happen to live in Australia.

Butch
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John,

For a Texan to tell another person from somewhere else that he thinks of them as a Texan is the highest complement any Texan can give to another person from some place else.

I know that you will understand because you think like a Texan.

Concho Bill
 
Dang! You guys have really done me in! There I was, in deep contrition, searching Ebay for a good used scourge & hair shirt, and you go & say all those nice things!

Not only will I have to keep my nose clean in future, in due deference to the honor Butch has bestowed on me, but now I'll never be able to root for Santa Anna when they're playing the Alamo on cable.

Seriously, though, I thank you all for understanding that occasionally the wheels do fall off. I appreciate your generosity & goodwill.

John

PS; Larry, I'm surprised that you can still type consecutive words after visiting Mucka. Were they having an off day, or have you acclimatised to the XXXX & Bundy?
 
John,

I quickly learned the range price for the XXX as it depended how many you could hold between your fingers. Seems it also made quick freindships as they offered same..

Cheers John
 
Hey John.... :)

I've been off working all week, haven't been on since I took your message and quickly dropped my two posts. I'm sorry that it went South on ya's mate! I wasn't anywhere important, just puttin' food in the chillun's mouf and sox on their wee feet......

Hey, no worries and it looks like The Wilbur Hissownself done re'stored the offending post!

I'll try to get caught up.....

al
 
My father briefly visited a camp in northern Australia during WWII, he had been in the drunimore river area in New Guinea for some time, and his regimental combat team (112th) were shipped to northern Australia for some R&R.

During his R&R stay, he took in a movie. They had the Yanks on one side of the theater, and the Aussies on the other.

He was struck by the way the men on one side of the theater would laugh uproariously at something in the film, while the other side of the theater was almost silent. He said that it went back and forth that way, as the movie went along. The two groups almost seemed to be taking turns, laughing.

It highlighted the differences in what was and was not considered to be funny by the two groups of soldiers...

While he was there, an Aussie soldier did him a favor that he never forgot. His superiors had at some point decided to collect the team's 45 autos, and distribute them to officers only. A sympathetic Aussie soldier gave my Dad a .455 Webley revolver. Dad said that if he took a pair of wire cutters to the rim of US .45 ACP rounds, they would function well enough in the Webley.

When he went back to the jungle, that Webley was his bed partner throughout the rest of his service there. He said he never had to use it, but it made him sleep better, and that counted for a lot.

Kind Regards, CharlesB

Hope nobody is offended by my Dad's story.
 
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family story

that's a great story how soldiers share..these family stories need to be shared.
and i think there's room here.

my uncle Houston was the last man left alive in his unit, he was listed MIA
for 212 days in the new guinea jungle, kept alive by local natives, they kept him hidden in a hole covered with grass and fed him on monkey and snake whatever....he came home after the war and went to work for the highway dept. only to be killed on the job, buried alive on a backhoe digging out a ditch..left behind a wife and five kids
 
My sister emailed me that she had a new grand daughter. A little farther down the email list she had forwarded a BS email about the dangers of using a cellphone while plugged in. Being a technical email, and one which was mass forwarded, I answered it without mentioning the new grand daughter. She came back on me hard for not mentioning the grand daughter. This suprised me because my mind separates these types of things without crossover. Taken aback, I tried a joke. This went even less well. Email isn't the same as face-to-face and that is all there is to it.
 
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