Don’t Worry: Your Lost Traditions Are Nearly As Good On YouTube

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by Smitty

I love the smell of buzzkill on a Monday. It smells like . . . nanny-statery.

This year’s cheese-rolling was due to take place on May 31. But Richard Jefferies, of the event’s organising committee, said: ‘We have had to cancel on the advice of the police and local authorities.
‘Last year 15,000 spectators tried to come to the event, by far the most we have ever seen, and we just could not cope.
‘As well as concerns about the safety of the crowd and the competitors, landowners were worried by the amount of damage done by people climbing over fences and that sort of thing.’

Good job. Way to avoid selling tickets and using the proceeds to fund local improvements.

They really need to get some people out there on 31May and just do it up right, even sans publicity. Illegitimi non carborundum, and all.

10 comments

  3. Smitty
    There’s an old Jarhead in your clan, right.
    But in the Old Corps we said it “Illigitimus non carbarundum”; as I recall.
    Admittedly it has been over 4 decades so my memory may be in error.

    S/F
    an old exJarhead
    Cerritos. Cal

  4. Smitty
    There’s an old Jarhead in your clan, right.
    But in the Old Corps we said it “Illigitimus non carbarundum”; as I recall.
    Admittedly it has been over 4 decades so my memory may be in error.

    S/F
    an old exJarhead
    Cerritos. Cal

  7. C.H>
    Yes. the one sticdking his bayonette into yhour face pr yhour chest~
    I dispatched both of those Sob to their Maker; one at a time. But AI do have some unseemly scars.
    Which only goes to shoe that this MF so of a Clet is one tough SOB who either:
    A, Kills his enemy
    or
    B. Dies tryin

    In the Old Corps Do or Die was how we lived.
    I’m not as handsome as I was 45 years ago – But I am above ground. A lot of bastar*s I faces have been pushing up daises for many decades. G d ‘e m all to H*ll! I hate not bein handsome.
    an old exJarhead

  8. C.H>
    Yes. the one sticdking his bayonette into yhour face pr yhour chest~
    I dispatched both of those Sob to their Maker; one at a time. But AI do have some unseemly scars.
    Which only goes to shoe that this MF so of a Clet is one tough SOB who either:
    A, Kills his enemy
    or
    B. Dies tryin

    In the Old Corps Do or Die was how we lived.
    I’m not as handsome as I was 45 years ago – But I am above ground. A lot of bastar*s I faces have been pushing up daises for many decades. G d ‘e m all to H*ll! I hate not bein handsome.
    an old exJarhead

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