On  Monday, November 25, 2002 4:18 PM, Reef Fish wrote:

(snip)
>>>I had difficulty
> >> understanding Strike's Tall Tale when he pronounced that J word as
> >> "ghile" :-)).

> >Mate!  Us former 'jail-birds', always call it "ghile"!  :-)

(snip)

> >(As an explanation - and before anyone starts baking me cakes with
hacksaw
> >blade fillings - on our tour of Sydney, we drove past one of the prisons,
> >Long Bay Gaol.  I had to repeat myself several times before Bob and Sue
> >understood that I was referring to a prison.  One thing led to another
and I
> >began rambling on about my great escape bid from the Naval "ghile" in
> >Singapore, many years ago.  A place where I was briefly incarcerated
because
> >I'd decided to collect beer bottle labels!)  :-)

> With that enticing intro, you can't just let the audience dangle there
> holding their breaths!  :-))

Mate!  I certainly can!  I'm almost certain that I've told the expurgated
version of this before, but if I haven't then it'll have to wait until I get
a few beers under the belt and we all start 'swinging the lights'! :-))))

Strike