First post to the group after years of lurking from time to time. Deep
bow to the senpais of the group. Yoroshiku.

Talking about the old guard men with the luminous batons, I always
can't help thinking (silly me) that I am seeing a bunch of venerable
Jedis with their light sabers: "This is not the empty space you are
looking for", "Parking front first you can not", etc.

Ian J Cottee <ian@cottee.org> wrote in message news:<864quxygw7.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org>...
> "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> writes:

[...]

> Anyway, the flag wavers can't just be for the sake of employment as they
> have those model ones they use on highways as well. Many people aspire
> to become a flag waver but for sheer machismo I believe you can't beat a
> whistle and luminous baton.