[Dixielandjazz] the Complete Commodore Condon

[Steve Voce]

On reflection, I've got it wrong!
What Eddie said was 'I don't normally consider myself to be an athlete...'
Steve


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> On 17 Sep 2015, at 05:09, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks again to Steve! My version was of course second hand, and I welcome the correction doubly, for the relaxed Condon phrasing duly notated.  
> 
> The account of Wild Bill and Big Ben I heard was glossed by a reference not to kleptomania but to a fondness for collecting antiques -- a matter, I suppose, of the power and nature of that fondness. 
> 
> My favourite account of a booze-up is "I met him, he was a friend of a mutual friend of ours. One night I went out drinking with them."
> And?
> All the informant had ever remembered of that night was that he had one night gone out to the pub with the two. 
> 
> 
> Robert
> -
>> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
>> To: ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
> On the day before Eddie  and Wild Bill had had a wild booze-up in London and what Eddie actually said when asked to sit up in bed was 'Well, I never regarded myself 
> 
> as an athlete.' He was asked where Wild Bill was and said 'He's probably out unscrewing Big Ben.' (Wild Bill was a kleptomaniac). Steve Voce.