writing a letter are we losing the ability to write any more,

[Michael Rolls]

Oh, and in a Dick Francis novel set in Australia, a character describes the featureless desert over which they are flying as the GABA - the Great Australian Bugger All
Mike

[Johned]

I can't recall now whether it was factual or fiction but yonks ago I read of four brothers hiking across a tract of Australian desert to enlist at the nearest point of civilisation during WW1.  They met a hobo travelling in the opposite direction and on his enquiring whither they were bound, told him and added "We don't want the Kaiser invading our country!"  The hobo answered witheringly "Take a look around boys, for me he can bloody have it!"   

[zoony]

I thought The Gaba was a cricket ground. 


  John. The story you relate. I'm sure I have it as a political cartoon somewhere in my memory..

[Michael Rolls]

I thought The Gaba was a cricket ground. 


  John. The story you relate. I'm sure I have it as a political cartoon somewhere in my memory..

It is but spelt Gabba
Mike

[Johned]

Yeah zoony, it's probably apocryphal.