nce nea ae Doug Collins @ get this straight @ MY MAN Vic is not pleased. A veteran of the famous watering hole and of the wars, he belches at letters-to-the- editor-writers who have referred in critical terms to me and my watering hole ‘‘cronies’’. He would like to meet them in combat, preferably on the parking lot, and says they are amateurs in the art of invective. In proof thereof, he pro- duced a Book of Insults. His favorite is the bile thrown up by D.H. Lawrence. But Vic, born in Victoria, that most placid of places, substituted the word “Canada” for ‘England’. I think he had the politicians in mind. ‘Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly- wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the + flaming sods, the snivelling, drib- bling, dithering, palsied, pulseless I. lot that make up Canada today. ' They've got white of egg in their veins, and their sperm is that ‘watery it’s a marvel they can ” breed. They can nothing but” “frogspawn, the gibberers! God, how Lhate them! «Fascinated by this masterful ‘| “language, I roamed the pages. of ;, the book for other examples. Here : is the redoubtable Harry Truman taking exception to a music critic’s ,teview of the singing ‘abilities of Harry’s daughter. I have. just read your lousy eview buried in the back pages. You’ sound. like a frustrated old