Collegians' overseas
Chandigarh, India,
August 2006
Cricket is popular in India but
Rugby isn't. Yet here in a corner of India I found a local person wearing
a Collegians' jersey.
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Deepa, 20th August 2006
Rock Garden, Chandigarh, Punjab
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Collegians' hat overseas ....the fate that could have befallen that
other hat.....
Collegians' caps, especially the one in traditional club colours
are a bit of a rarity these days even in Adelaide, so it was a surprise to
find them being worn in places far from home. It's been fortuitous
that there have been Collegians' people around alert enough to recognise
the club colours and with the ability to focus a camera. No-one has
yet had the wits to ask of the wearers' connections with the
club. Presumably some played for Collegians' at some time, but
that's mere supposition.
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Madrid,
May 2005
My own cap, very much like the one I've found
people everywhere wearing, was stolen after a soccer match in Leeds (yes, I
left it on the bus, then someone stole it).
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Goya Said his
name was Goya. Or at least, I couldn't get an answer out of him, but someone
passing told me. Already has a hat.
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Bystanders
Suspicious? Certainly, but far too many of them
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Masked Gorgeous?
Yes, no doubt. But someone's already put her on a pedestal
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Hamish & Harry
I thought it was them at first, from a distance, and although
the likenesses were uncanny, it wasn't them after all. More like Adrian
& Jesse.
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Paris, January 2005
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Holly Holly and friends. Photographed at the
Eiffel Tower, January 21st 2005. Holly is English.
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Nadya
Надя is Russian. Let
me know, Nadya please if 'Nadya' is correct. Filmed with the Palace in the
background, January 21st 2005
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Kelly Kelly is a Highland Scot. Photographed
on top of the Arc de Triomphe, January 21st 2005
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Bronze woman
Another naked woman in the park. While photographing her,
in the Bois de Boulogne, some of the natives were contemptuously suggesting
the photographer was un Americain. Oh, well. No reflection on Australia, then.
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Japanese girls
Good-looking Japanese girls - when you visit would you e-mail
me with your names please & I'll add them in here.
Photographed at the Arc de Triomphe, January 21st 2005.
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Netherlands, December 2004
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Scheveningen,
Den Haag Ned Kelly is alive and well and has a
friend. She would be another Old Collegian.
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Amsterdam
The photographer appears to have some effect on women in
European parks. Another naked one. But, apparently a Collegian.
This one in Vondel Park in Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam
A little Lion is wearing a Collegians cap. A good fit for
a Lion.
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Amsterdam This
man bore a striking resemblance to Arthur Van Schendel, but as we all know he
died in 1948 and would not have been in favour of baseball caps. But
apparently, as I was told, he gets to wear a lot of things for the cameras.
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Amsterdam
Another nice young lady spotted in a Collegians' cap. Neither
her English nor her Dutch were good enough for the photographer to discover
her association with the Club.
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Leeds
late November 2004
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Leeds Stewart
Douglas after a visit to a local business the photographer has a working
relationship with. He is looking much happier for it.
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Leeds
Stewart insisted I put this one in - said Boof would know what
message Stewart had for him.
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Leeds
Stewart and I watched this bloke, not wishing to interfere with
his concentration. Another Old Collegian we thought. We watched for some time
but we eventually lost interest.
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Leeds
These other bystanders were careful not to interrupt. We
left them to it. They're all a bit slow in these parts. Good solid
Northerners.
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Estonia August 2004
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Tallin
This was taken in late August
2004. She was the first we spotted in a Collegians'
hat. She is a nice Estonian girl but our Estonian wasn't
adequate enough to understand where it was she got the hat
from. Amazing.
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Tallin
These two reminded us initially of
Burnside girls most especially when we found we could get little in
the way of conversation out of them. The problem may have been
us, of course, but after some discussion later between ourselves we
reckoned it was most likely a problem with them.
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Dostoevsky - Tallin
This gentleman told us he was Dostoevsky,
but as he was completely legless we just didn't believe
him.
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Naked
woman - Tallin
I fancied this young lady, but in retrospect it
may have been her wearing no clothes that was the initial
attraction. When she produced the cap almost from nowhere
I thought we were destined for something more meaningful.
Subsequent conversation, however, became too reticent and stony
so I reluctantly departed.
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Soviet
worker of the World
This man believed that he was a world
soviet worker united with the world, but we reckoned he was just a
very big bloke who couldn't afford clothes. Imagine, however,
someone like that playing for, or against, you - try tackling that.
Anyway, he seemed quite content there on his pedestal dreaming of
times that quietly just between us we thought were unlikely to ever
return. But as he was a nice enough sort of bloke, a bit
introspective perhaps, we slipped off and left him to
it.
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Buried
Now this fellow was about the only one we
could believe. He told us that he got completely buried in his last
game and we really couldn't find fault with that. But he seemed happy
enough stretched out like that and, in common with a lot of his
countrymen, was very spare with his words. Not one for boasting
I'd have said.
As we said to each other afterwards in one of the bars, these are
really nice people. They've quite large heads, however.
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Gone past
the beer and onto drinks with strawberries in
Bar. Early morning. Please
get out of the picture, I'm photographing the bottles.
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