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  1. 7th September 08, 01:26 PM #1
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    I haven't seen that film in years (I hate to admit it's probably decades!!) but it was a favorite film of mine oh those many years ago. I need to watch for it!
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    One of my all time favorites.
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    I guess I'll have to check that movie out some day. I shamefully admit that is yet another classic movie I have never seen.
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    FYI, in British Arny slang to "go for a Gunga" is to partake of a curry at one's local Indian restaurant (usually after several pints of throat lubricant).int:
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    Link below is the poem by Rudyard Kipling that inspired the film.

    http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poet...pling_ind.html
    "O, why the deuce should I repine, and be an ill foreboder?
    I'm twenty-three, and five feet nine, I'll go and be a sodger!
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