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17th March 2007, 08:12 PM
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Location: What is still UK
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They don't like it up em! as Corporal Jones would say. Cpl Jone a character in a long running UK TV program called "dads army" about the Home Guard during ww2. Cpl Jones was a veteran from the Sudan wars. He meant the bayonet.
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18th March 2007, 04:20 AM
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Tim,
I've lived in Canada 23 yrs now, but Still remember Corporal Jones very well!........And I suppose they Still "don't like it up 'em!" |
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18th March 2007, 06:32 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Forgot about this one; it came into my hands separately. My father picked it up for me at a little antique shop in Northern California, where it was labelled a 'salmon fishing spear'. I didn't know they had salmon runs in the Sudan!?!
  8 1/2" long with an almost black patina, and the little barbs are damned near as sharp as the day they were forged. Shaft is a replacement piece of bamboo I happened to have lying around, good to hear it's appropriate to the piece.... |
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