Humour the best of medicine

[Engine Serang]

Always attach your 5 point safety harness to the top rung of the ladder.
Just a little H&S advice.

[Malcolm G]

Well quite so, particularly if it is listing…
Or does that deserve a bullet?

[Malcolm G]

Somebody mentioned Boaty Macboatface.

[Makko]

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

[YM-Mundrabilla]

It's obviously an RAF IBTWL-GA-SM

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

It's obviously an RAF IBTWL-GA-SM

It might very well be YM but how do you know?
Is it smooth bore or rifled? Gotcha!

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Neither.
It is grease lubricated.

Perhaps my second name is Schmidt but, on reflection, it is more likely to be Schultz.

[Malcolm G]

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

[Dartskipper]

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

[Varley]

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.

[Lao Pan]

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."

[Malcolm G]

Ah the '60s

Were you really there?

[Malcolm G]

Many years ago a Solicitor aquaintance introduced me to the sedimentary filing system.

This is quite neat in comparison.

[Malcolm G]

Choose your God, or other imaginary friends….

[Malcolm G]

What you mean when you say that you can’t just drive it back to the shed?

[Makko]

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

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Originally Posted by Malcolm G

What you mean when you say that you can’t just drive it back to the shed?

'Bit short of steam at the moment, Control'.
'Give us ten minutes for a blow up and we'll be under way'!

[Malcolm G]

One for the vexillologists

[Malcolm G]

Seems like a good idea

[billyboy]

Originally Posted by Lao Pan

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."

heard of a driver who when he had broken down Phoned the fitters. He said ''I am at a Place called Dangerslow. after much searching eventualy they found him. just outside of Ilford. when asked about it he pointed to a sign saying Danger slow.