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Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: Texting Monk
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:38:17 -0300
Didn't Prince Charles get toughened up in his younger days by spending a 
weekend or three Jackarooing at the Timbertops remote station of Geelong 
Grammar School :-)

jh

On 2014-04-11 5:32 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I believe that it is fairly typical for the sons of well-off families in S.E. 
> Asia to spend a year as a monk, to knock some humility into them. So there 
> may be quite a few lads in orange who haven't quite fully adopted the 
> lifestyle or don't mind finding a chunk of meat in the egging bowl. There's a 
> similar tradition here of wealthy kids spending time as a Jackaroo on a 
> remote station to give them a sense of perspective and toughen them up.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
>
> Author/Publisher:
> The SLR Compendium:
> revised edition -
> http://blur.by/19Hb8or
> The TLR Compendium
> http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
>
>
>
> On 12/04/2014, at 12:46 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> I didn't know monks used cell phones or smoked, but these did both.

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