On 2025/10/5 19:47:20, Carlos E.R. wrote:
[]
There are tents here that you simply throw and they spring into shape,
automatically. The problem is folding them again.
Indeed!>
...
Clearly, it's time to revisit what, despite it dating from the mid
1800s, many might argue still is the funniest book in the English
language, Jerome K Jerome's "Three Men In A Boat", because it's humour
is largely ironic and so appeals still to more modern tastes.ÿ I
make no
apologies for the length of this excerpt, because the way initially yo
u
are lulled makes the resulting reality check all the more real and
amusing ...
<quote>
Should we "camp out" or sleep at inns?
George and I were for camping out.ÿ We said it would be so wild a
nd
free, so patriarchal like.
...
Harris said: "How about when it rained?"
ROTFL! X'-)
...
</quote>
Gosh, I remember. :-D
The chap basically only wrote this wonderful book. There is another one
,
with a trip to Germany, but was not a success.
Three Men on a Bummel, IIRR. To anyone that has some familiarity with
Germany and Germans, as amusing as the Boat one. (Though - both of them
- very much of a bygone age.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
"I'm not against women. Not often enough, anyway." - Groucho Marx
--- PyGate Linux v1.0
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)