Always attach your 5 point safety harness to the top rung of the ladder.
Just a little H&S advice. |
Well quite so, particularly if it is listing…
Or does that deserve a bullet? |
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Somebody mentioned Boaty Macboatface.
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Be careful Malcolm - That was devised by a design committee headed by Tom Vart and seconded by FG86!!!!!!
I am now donning my tin helmet and dropping into a shell crater! Rgds. Dave |
It's obviously an RAF IBTWL-GA-SM
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Is it smooth bore or rifled? Gotcha! |
Neither.
It is grease lubricated. Perhaps my second name is Schmidt but, on reflection, it is more likely to be Schultz. |
Their real, not so much fun, names are:
ZP801 – Pride of Moray ZP802 – City of Elgin ZP803 – Terence Bulloch DSO DFC ZP804 – Spirit of Reykjavík ZP805 – Fulmar ZP806 – Guernsey's Reply ZP807 – William Barker VC |
RAF humour can be somewhat unconventional. A Shackleton based at Changi in 1970/1971and the subject of an Airfix kit, was decorated so that to any interested observer it was flying on behalf of "White Knuckle Airlines."
https://www.pprune.org/military-avia...eton-c1-2.html |
Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees" - helicopters.
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After leaving the Sea I worked as an HGV driver.
One day I had a delivery note with just [Evans - Caerphilly] on it, so phoned the Transport Office from a phone box (remember those?) for a proper address. "Have you tried looking them up in the phone directory?" said the wise traffic clerk! Remembering I had once been at sea I replied: "**** OFF - have you seen how many pages of Evans there are in the Caerphilly Directory?" On another occasion, I was in the said Office when an agency driver phoned in about 2 hours after he should have completed his delivery. "I'm in Wales" he said "I can't find this Tunbridge place anywhere." |
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Ah the '60s
Were you really there? |
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Many years ago a Solicitor aquaintance introduced me to the sedimentary filing system.
This is quite neat in comparison. |
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Choose your God, or other imaginary friends….
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What you mean when you say that you can’t just drive it back to the shed?
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For some completely unknown reason, one of those PG Tips adverts (where they are moving the piano) came into my head:
Son - "Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot!" Dad - "You hum it and I'll play it, son!". Es viernes! Rgds. Dave |
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'Give us ten minutes for a blow up and we'll be under way'! :rolleyes: |
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One for the vexillologists
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Seems like a good idea
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