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Nice photo. Lots of detail visible if you zoom in.

MOST People have a crook back if they are old enough. Desks rarely crash and burn. Nev

Standard Lee-Enfield .303 Rifle. short magazine, WW 1 Boer War? Nev

It's got whiskers on it. Nev

Isn't there already a gold statue of him?

That seems like a cock-and-bulldog story to me...

How much gilt do you want?

I spent the morning with an ex-SAS mate working on my truck. He has a crook back from jumping out of choppers. I have a crook back from too long sitting at a desk!

I've just got back to Australia after visiting Vietnam, sitting in Sydney airport waiting for the Hobart flight. They call it the American war over there. I don't know why we went, or what the Yanks thought they'd achieve. Every Vietnamese person I talked to (apart from the hucksters trying to sell you stuff) was polite, friendly and with a great sense of humour. An interesting fact is that they burn cardboard shaped into shoes, clothes etc for their dead ancestors. They even burn fake money so the spirits can buy stuff in the afterlife. Now this next bit shows how lovely these people are. The fake money they burn is obviously Vietnamese dong. They then started worrying about the American and European dead in their country, not recognising the currency and going without. So now they also burn fake US dollars and Euros as well, so the foreign spirits are looked after. (Probably the more entrepreneurial Vietnamese spirits also grab the foreign currency because of the exchange rate!) But just think - regardless of how nonsensical the whole thing may be, they are concerned about the welfare of the dead soldiers who invaded their country.