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From: livesey@solntze.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey)
Date: 13 Feb 90 03:19:38 GMT
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From: livesey@solntze.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey)

In article <13892@cbnews.ATT.COM> ron@hpfcso.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
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>From: ron@hpfcso.hp.com (Ron Miller)
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>Re: Trials & suicide orders
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>I had a Commanding Officer who was under the impression that peacetime
>and wartime standards were different.
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>One of his favorite phrases was, " If this was wartime, I'd shoot you."

At Aldershot, many years ago, there was a Drill Sergeant whose
favourite form of abuse for future officers was "If I were your father,
I'd shoot meself".

One day, he was in the process of abusing a particularly idle officer
in training, who happened to be the Prince of Wales (later the Duke
of Windsor).

"If I was your father", he began, and then realising that what he was
about to suggest was very likely treason, he trailed off into "I'd,
I'd, I'd...... h'abdicate!".

jon.