Peter Hathaway Capstick.
Amazing what turns up in a Yahoo search. I put in "capstick death long
grass" and several references popped up immediately for this 287-page book,
"Death in the Long Grass : A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African
Bush." Currently available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
--Rocky Entriken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Stutzman '" <stutzman@adelphia.net>; <owner-fot@autox.team.net>;
"'John Price '" <jprice1@txcyber.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:03 AM
Subject: RE: Comments about journalism
> I've actually started a company fundamentally dedicated to this principle.
I
> haven't done anything with it yet, except registering a couple of good
> domain names, designing a few logos, and telling my long suffering wife
what
> I'm up to, but the name of the company is PSB which stands for
"Professional
> Small Boy" a lift from a rare old bullshit artist called Capstick (I think
> his first name was Peter, but I won't swear to it)--his wife called him a
> Professional Small Boy. Mr Capstick (now passed awy, unfortunately) wrote
> lurid african hinting epics with titles like "Death in the long grass",
> "Death in the dark Continent", death in Lonely Places" and edited "Man
> Eaters of Tsavo". Wonderful stuff. I only have a fuzzy notion of how this
> company will make money, but I'm fairly certain it will let me play
merrily
> for quite some time without paying taxes on toys. The tagline for the
> company is "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." I
> toyed with calling it "the Lost Boys", but then that stupid vampire movie
> came out.
>
> And yes, Suze, you can join (once there is something TO join). Boys is a
> term descriptive of a certain set of passions, not ownership of a unit,
> though I feel fairly certain you can make a strong claim on Brad's.
>
> Having spent the afternoon surfing, and the early morning playing with
radio
> controlled airplanes I feel uniquely qualified to lead this outfit.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net
> To: John Price
> Cc: fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: 12/18/2003 9:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Comments about journalism
>
> I probably never grew up. I hope I never do.
> bruce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Price" <jprice1@txcyber.com>
> To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:18 AM
> Subject: Comments about journalism
>
>
> > Once again, I am absolutely astounded at the diversity of experience,
> > knowledge and literacy represented by the members of this group. Even
> more
> > astounding is the fact that despite our experience, knowledge and
> literacy, we
> > insist on messing about with these #&^%*(&%$ British cars. You would
> think
> > that at our age we would know better.
> >
> > John Price
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