Message for phormer 43 Sqn and 228 OCU Phantom aircrew ?
As Cyprus has been mentioned, here's a tale that just sprang to mind.
APC, my cine debrief beingdone by QWIN (Ian M***n). At the end of the sortie, taxying back to Golf Dispersal,I had taken the camera off it's mounting on the ODU and was using it, hand-held to film the Canberra's low pass to drop the flag. Debrief complete we let the film run on to see this bit of the movie. It was, if I say so myself, a beautifully clear clip of a huge 'berra passing right to left, slightly above us, front quarter, close range.
Junior and I descided it would be a great idea to play a jolly jape on the QWIL (Barry Do****t). He was summoned to the cine room when junior informed him that he had a worry about one of my passes and invited QWIP to watch.
His face was a picture and the whole thing was massively funny right up to the point when Junior had to spend 5 minutes trying to stop BD from thottling my up against the cine room wall. Literally.
Moral: If everyone already knows you're an arse, don't make it worse by trying to prove it to the wheels.
Je vais chercher mon manteau et chapeau.
APC, my cine debrief beingdone by QWIN (Ian M***n). At the end of the sortie, taxying back to Golf Dispersal,I had taken the camera off it's mounting on the ODU and was using it, hand-held to film the Canberra's low pass to drop the flag. Debrief complete we let the film run on to see this bit of the movie. It was, if I say so myself, a beautifully clear clip of a huge 'berra passing right to left, slightly above us, front quarter, close range.
Junior and I descided it would be a great idea to play a jolly jape on the QWIL (Barry Do****t). He was summoned to the cine room when junior informed him that he had a worry about one of my passes and invited QWIP to watch.
His face was a picture and the whole thing was massively funny right up to the point when Junior had to spend 5 minutes trying to stop BD from thottling my up against the cine room wall. Literally.
Moral: If everyone already knows you're an arse, don't make it worse by trying to prove it to the wheels.
Je vais chercher mon manteau et chapeau.
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Reckon you won that one, Courtney. D'you mean to say the sqn QWIL (the chap in question was the only 43 Sqn wheel invited to sledge parties) didn't notice the absence of the LCOSS circle & pipper in the footage of your spoof close-aboard with the flag?
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Bloody Hell under an hour - Drainpie 5 Stars it was indeed Takis ! I'd forgot about him using our toothbrushes ....
As a Jolly jape we once covered the door to the Cine Room in paper and then for an amusing laugh called a state 1 on the tannoy QWI P who was duty auth opened the door and had a mental breakdown as he suddenly thought he'd been walled in ! And then proceeded to smash his way out - funny he didn't think it was amusing
Can anyone recal the ablutions downstairs that had probably seen more horrible sights than Fred West - the walls had various jokes written by visiting crews my personal favourites were on the bottom of the door which had a 9 inch gap ..... beware of Homosexual Libo dancers !
As a Jolly jape we once covered the door to the Cine Room in paper and then for an amusing laugh called a state 1 on the tannoy QWI P who was duty auth opened the door and had a mental breakdown as he suddenly thought he'd been walled in ! And then proceeded to smash his way out - funny he didn't think it was amusing
Can anyone recal the ablutions downstairs that had probably seen more horrible sights than Fred West - the walls had various jokes written by visiting crews my personal favourites were on the bottom of the door which had a 9 inch gap ..... beware of Homosexual Libo dancers !
Those wretched ablutions with the diagonally scored floor tiles which hurt like hell when you were in a post-kebab rush...
Dodging those strange crunchy things (whether beetles or some sort of tree seed, I never did find out) was of little consideration when the kebab / kokinelli was about to make an unwelcome reappearance.
A mate was once about to turn on his shower tap, when the smallest bondhu cat on Akrotiri suddenly appeared through the drain hole....and, he said, looked like it was about to jump up at him....
Epic Franglais from one APC mate when, told by some wheel that he should go and put on a tie, announced "Sorry Sir, short service commission. Vous me confuse avec quelqu'un qui donne un merde!"
On the subject of ciné spoofs, I was once told that some Hunter-era recce mob in Germany had held an unofficial 'cow competition' - the idea being to get the largest image of a cow on a single frame. This was going quite well - until one morning when the flight commander found a splendid print in his in tray of the face of a single cow - which filled the frame! As mini-wheels do, he went into low earth orbit and issued dire threats against the pilot involved. Until, that is, it was revealed that the cow had been 'borrowed' from a local farmer, led in front of a parked Hunter; the camera tit was then pressed and the cow returned to its owner.....
Dodging those strange crunchy things (whether beetles or some sort of tree seed, I never did find out) was of little consideration when the kebab / kokinelli was about to make an unwelcome reappearance.A mate was once about to turn on his shower tap, when the smallest bondhu cat on Akrotiri suddenly appeared through the drain hole....and, he said, looked like it was about to jump up at him....
Epic Franglais from one APC mate when, told by some wheel that he should go and put on a tie, announced "Sorry Sir, short service commission. Vous me confuse avec quelqu'un qui donne un merde!"
On the subject of ciné spoofs, I was once told that some Hunter-era recce mob in Germany had held an unofficial 'cow competition' - the idea being to get the largest image of a cow on a single frame. This was going quite well - until one morning when the flight commander found a splendid print in his in tray of the face of a single cow - which filled the frame! As mini-wheels do, he went into low earth orbit and issued dire threats against the pilot involved. Until, that is, it was revealed that the cow had been 'borrowed' from a local farmer, led in front of a parked Hunter; the camera tit was then pressed and the cow returned to its owner.....
Originally Posted by AQ
D'you mean to say the sqn QWIL (the chap in question was the only 43 Sqn wheel invited to sledge parties) didn't notice the absence of the LCOSS circle & pipper in the footage of your spoof close-aboard with the flag?
I may owe Junior my life. And many ties. I have a sport I play with him every F4 TDPU. See you there.
Originally Posted by Beags
Vous me confuse avec quelqu'un qui donne un merde!
Doesn't make sense, mon barve. Explain?
Vous me confuse avec quelqu'un qui donne un merde!
me confuse - are confusing me
avec quelqu'un - with someone
qui donne - who gives
un merde - a ****.
Oh, and it's 'mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll'!
Beags! I knew what you really meant, my friend.
Seriously though, thanks for the real version of the German. I've asked so many people how to say it, but never seen it written. Not that it would have made much difference.
Seriously though, thanks for the real version of the German. I've asked so many people how to say it, but never seen it written. Not that it would have made much difference.
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Oder....
My learned Deutsche colleagues say they would use:
Mein Luftkissenboot ist voll mit Aalen
The other phavourite - my rhinocerous has just gone supersonic:
Mein Nashorn ist mit Überschall davon gegangen
Ex
Mein Luftkissenboot ist voll mit Aalen
The other phavourite - my rhinocerous has just gone supersonic:
Mein Nashorn ist mit Überschall davon gegangen
Ex
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What a great thread. It is an excellent example of how life differs from 1 unit to another, and how it is sometimes fortuitous to have been somewhere else working for somebody else. I am not sure if working for the Scottish wing commander would have led to mutual or just self destruction.
QWIN
QWIN
QWIN,
I'm sure he'd have been jolly nice to you when it came time for a tac check or A-A cine debrief.
C
The best ever!!! Outstanding.
I'm sure he'd have been jolly nice to you when it came time for a tac check or A-A cine debrief.
C
Originally Posted by Exmil
Mein Nashorn ist mit Überschall davon gegangen
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I'm putting my body armour on as I type this. But I would just say that as he rose through the ranks, he did actually do quite a sterling job standing up to the select committees on behalf of the AD world - especially the AWACS community. I happened to read some select committee transcripts when doing the Basic Staff College drinking and laser quest course. I was quite impressed by his perfomance.
I only report here what I saw.
C
I only report here what I saw.
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WRT AB, PPRuNe Pop posted on 9 Mar 2006
"Guys,
I think this thread is descending into a bag of rags. I am also concerned about libel laws.
If the man is truly unworthy he is fair game but the vitriol is increasing by the day and I don't think we can leave this up.
Sorry but PPRuNe comes first."
"Guys,
I think this thread is descending into a bag of rags. I am also concerned about libel laws.
If the man is truly unworthy he is fair game but the vitriol is increasing by the day and I don't think we can leave this up.
Sorry but PPRuNe comes first."
