Trench Life
This weekend is Anzac Day, the nearest U.S. equivalent being Memorial Day, I suppose, given that Veterans’/Armistice/Remembrance Day is more-or-less universally 11 November. Usually, for the weekend, in addition to parades and memorial services, you can head to the local RSL (Returned Serviceman’s League) club and have a nice game of Two-Up, an otherwise illegal form of gambling, involving the use of a flat stick to hurl two coins high into the air and betting on their arrangement, head and tails, when the land. Why is it illegal? I don’t know; maybe because you could put your eye out. Since the coin denominations below five cents were eliminated, it may be tough now to find pennies to “give a toss” anyway.