On Monday, November 25, 2002 6:33 AM, Reef Fish wrote (in a reply to Brad):

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> Had I not bargained hard (successfully) with the Chinatown dive-weight
> seller in Sydney, the little piece of dive-weight I bought would have
> exceeded the $10,000 AUD limit in the Aussie Customs form, which might
> have landed me in the company of kangaroos, Koalas, wallabees, and
> and wannabees such as yoself in their jails (which 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"!  :-)

(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!)  :-)

Strike