Fantastic!

It's nice to see that James still has, err, Spunk!

....and if you're going to be pedantic, do it with style!

V for Vendetta, or and, err, Veneral Disease!

Mat from Baguley.

Steve <zedro@...> wrote:
Has the great man got too much spare time on his hands these days?
Here is the text of James' letter to Private Eye this week,
following on from a previous cartoon showing the Christmas truce-cum-
footie-match between British and German troops in WW1:

HELMET TIPS

Sir,

This is the second time I have been forced to write to you on the
subject of cartoons about the Christmas truces of 1914. On this
occasion I refer to page 20 of Eye 1173.

British troops were not issued with steel helmets until June 1916.
They were not worn with a netting cover during the Great War.
Webbing was the 1908 canvas or 1914 leather pattern, not the 1937
pattern shown. The German tunic, whether Waffenrock or Bluse had
neither breast pockets nor lapels. And is that supposed to be the
Pikelhaube or the Stanhelm, which latter was not, in any case,
issued until 1916?

How much longer must this go on? I suggest you circularise your
cartoonists with this important information. Should any more such
items be planned for the future, I should be happy to advise.

Frohliche Weinachten, Tommy.
JAMES REEVE,
Manchester






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