Re: WILD WEST
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:45 pm
Too right - Malawi Gin, very cheap and very wonderful.J.R. wrote: Ar ! The wonders of alcohol, eh, Richard ??
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Too right - Malawi Gin, very cheap and very wonderful.J.R. wrote: Ar ! The wonders of alcohol, eh, Richard ??
Thanks, that does sound like the bloke. The business about having learnt about it in the "Wild West" might well have been abit of flummery to impress the assembled Preps A&B. Another of life's little mysteries solved!Rex wrote:If the man in question was indeed an Old Blue, it must surely have been David Stewart (LB 1925-31), comedian, hypnotist and actor, whose speciality was a one-man cowboy show involving rope-spinning and lassoing. He began doing it at the age of five in Cairo and, according to his Blue obituary, at CH ‘the only place he was able to practice roping often was in the toilet with a piece of string as the matron would confiscate any rope he managed to procure.’ He may of course have been in the Wild West later; much of his career seems to have been spent in Canada.