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  • I-Like-Rhymes Moderators member
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    Goose Stepping

    For Morag
    The Victorian Tommy used the term goose stepping to refer to marching in reference to the goose's rather obvious left-right left-right waddle (especially fast paced units such as the DLI).
    The high stepping German drill we now think of as goose-stepping was much more emphatic than that and derived from the Stechschritt (piercing step) and Stechmarsch of the Prussian Army
    The term came into common parlance following a Cartoon in 1936.
    Jim


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    on Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady, 6 hours ago
    An excellent piece of writing by someone who knows his stuff.
    It points out just what a real sailor would think about the sloppy, sentimental, bilge that land-lubbers used to sing and talk about "a sailor's life"
    Although Brady doesm't appear to have been a sailor himself he will have met enough real sailors in his job as a wharf clerk to know what they actually thought.
    He has also done a good job in conveying the language of the day too.
    This would make a good recitation piece or monologue.
    Jim


  • Charley Noble Moderators member
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    on Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady, 7 hours ago

    Edwin J. Brady

    I've just gotten a copy of THE WAYS OF MANY WATERS, 1899, and will be harvesting and posting more poems by this poet. I find it fascinating stuff, truly a portal to another time and place.

    Cheerily,
    Charley Noble, Oldpoetry Team

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