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The Munchkin croquet team
“Standards Bellington Smith …..where is your stick ? how on earth are going to face the enemies machine guns with out your stick ? you’ve just got 5 extras
Next up, Chinese female polo team. (For the uninitiated, Chinese women played polo during the Imperial Tang dynasty.)
Tea break for defaulters.
“I say, think you have forgotten your weapon old boy”
The 1912 Military Uniforms & Weapons Catalog released.
I say chaps – there’s a fellow over there taking our d—d photo. Shall we de-bag him?
I don’t know about you, Carruthers, but its the bally waiting that I can’t take.
“I thought he colonel said we could play a stupid chukka. Was he being rude?!”
“I can’t help thinking that this whole polo thing would be a damned sight more fun if we actually had ponies!”
They hadn’t spoken to Smithers since he had shaved off his moustache, but with Blenkinsop now sporting a cap it was noticeable that team morale had hit a new low.
Tomlinson was having a bad hair day, and so he turned up for the shoot disguised as a bush.
That awkward moment when you realise that you have turned up for a platoon billiards competition with the wrong gear.
I say old chap,take that STUPID cap off…..
Lunch time’s over: back down the sewer.
After a night celebrating another match win no one in the team could remember where they’d left the horses!
Shame we had to eat the polo horses.
The Surrey Slouchers were in relaxed form waiting for their next game against the Corinthian Casuals.
These sticks don’t play a tune as good as the horns in the Swiss alps.
We’ll chukka you out if you wear that cap again
Quidditch was very different before Harry Potter joined Hogwarts.
They may be good at polo but looking at the right camera was rather more taxing…
The team was shocked to learn that some of the other teams regarded them as poseurs.
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