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Comment by CrackerJack Kid on March 20, 2011 at 5:58pm

No Moore Mail Art

 

Here lies Lester Moore

A letter bomb did score

No Les

No More

 

CrackerJack Kid

A Prize in EVERY box!

Comment by CrackerJack Kid on March 20, 2011 at 5:46pm

Tombstone address

See Dead Letter Office

CrackerJack Kid

Comment by CrackerJack Kid on March 20, 2011 at 5:42pm

Mail Artists never die

They return to senders

CrackerJack Kid

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 17, 2011 at 4:45pm

I give in, Erni. Do tell! Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 17, 2011 at 3:49pm

An Australian lawyer and Hymie are sitting next to each other on a long flight to NY.

The lawyer is thinking that Jews are all  simpletons and that he can fool them easily...

So the lawyer asks if Hymie would like to play a fun game.

Hymie is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and says that the game is a lot of fun.

'I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5; you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500.'

As may be expected, this catches Hymie's attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.

The lawyer asks the first question. 'What's the distance from the Earth to the moon?'

Hymie doesn't say a word, reaches in his pocket, pulls out a five dollar note, and hands it to the lawyer.

Now, it's the Hymie's turn.

He asks the lawyer, 'What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?' And with that, he closes his eyes and tries to take a nap again.

The lawyer uses his laptop, searches all the references he knows. He uses the air-phone; he searches the Net and even the Library of Congress. He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail. After over an hour of searching, he finally gives up.

He wakes up the Hymie and hands him $500. Hymieie pockets the $500 and goes straight back to sleep.

The lawyer is going crazy not knowing the answer. He wakes Hymie up and asks, 'Well! What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?' 

Hymie  reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 17, 2011 at 3:29pm

Thanks Erni,

I looked up 'no names, no kitbag' and found 'no names, no pack drill'. Details below. We used the no kitbag version in the UK when I was a child, usually in the context, 'well, someone was responsible, but names are not going be to named;'

The Dutch have a version of 'klots-kashe' (Dutcvh and Yiddish being pretty similiar), and that is 'klotsac', which being polite means 'idiot', and being impolite means something a lot worse.

And now we are going to get into Jewish jokes....I'll be a klots-kashe if I get dran into that exchange of views!

Bifidus: thanks for the book reference; I'll see if Mr Amazon UK has a cheap copy available.

Regards, Val

Meaning 'No name, no pack drill':

Say nothing and avoid repercussions.

Origin

Pack-drill was a punishment given to soldiers in the British Army, requiring them to undertake drill (exercise) in full uniform and carrying a heavy pack.

'No names, no pack-drill' is used to indicate that the names of those who have committed a misdemeanor will not be mentioned in order to spare them punishment.

The 'pack-drill' punishment is known from at least 1845, when it was referred to in William Maxwell's Hints to a soldier on service:

"A full guard house, dozens at pack-drill."

The 'no names, no pack-drill' mantra is first recorded in a memoir of the Indian Treaty negotiations, which took place between the British and Native Americans in Canada in the late 1860s. This piece from the Manitoba Daily Free Press lists the phrase as an 'old saw' (i.e. a traditional, homespun proverb) in July 1874:

[Notes taken] At the time of the Indian Treaty of 1873.
No NAMES — No PACK DRILL. — Old

Comment by Bifidus Jones on March 17, 2011 at 1:13pm

You two crack me up. If you don't have a copy of Henrik Drescher's, Postal Seance check it out. It's a fun book of his mail art to famous dead people across history. comes with a foldout map showing the afterlife's postal system and a sheet of his own artist stamps:

http://www.amazon.com/Postal-Seance-Scientific-Investigation-Possib...

séance

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 17, 2011 at 5:25am

I suspect that several IUOMA folks -- no names, no kitbags -- are already in this etheric state. Val

Comment by Laurence Roberts on March 16, 2011 at 4:55pm

I"'ll 2nd that !"

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 16, 2011 at 4:25pm

Erni, when you've sorted out the vegetarian options on the menu, please can you turn your attention to i) room (or should that be coffin?) service, and ii) bar service?

Regards, Val

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