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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 5 (November 2, 1931)

Knock-ons and Knock-outs

Knock-ons and Knock-outs.

Existence, like golf, is a game of mischance, or a series of drives into the unknown by the unknowing. But existence is played with a ball with a bias and a two-way club which is as liable to deliver a knock-out as a knock-on. The caddy is a tee-potter in his cups, and is as likely to hand one the raspberry as the mashie.

As in golf, Bogey is the power behind the groan, or the hand that caps the handicaps. Every man's bogey is his ego with the shivers, and is as much a part of him as his hocks or his slacks or anything that is his. Some men's bogeys are imaginary or bogus bogeys, while others are “menaganerie” or apeish bogeys, being more zoological than logical. Trains run on bogies, but humans try to run from them. “Everyone has at least one. Some of the better-known bogeys are: the old-age bogey or rogey bogey, the suspicion bogey or roguey bogey, the timidity bogey or boggle bogey, the fear bogey or bogey bogey, and the depression bogey or boggy bogey. Some are fogged and bogged in bogeys, while others keep one or two for the sake of companionship.