The New CO: In the great days of the British Empire, a new Commanding Officer was sent to a jungle outpost to relieve the retiring Colonel. After welcoming his replacement and showing the usual courtesies (gin and tonic, cucumber sandwiches etc.) that protocol decrees, the retiring colonel said: You must meet my Adjutant, Captain Smithers, my right-hand man and the strength of this office. His talent is simply boundless. Smithers was summoned and introduced to the new CO, who was surprised to meet a humpbacked, one eyed, toothless, hairless, scabbed and pockmarked specimen of humanity, a particularly unattractive man, less than three feet tall. Smithers, old man, tell your new CO about yourself. Well, sir, I graduated with honours from Sandhurst, joined the regiment and won the Military Cross and Bar after three expeditions behind enemy lines. “Ive represented Great Britain in equestrian events, and won a Silver Medal in the middleweight division of the Olympics. I have researched the history of..... The colonel interrupted: Yes, yes, never mind that Smithers. He can find all that in your file. “Tell him about the day you told the local Witch Doctor to f**k off.
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