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by fareastdriver
Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:34 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470648

Re: Friday Jokes

Old Joe is on the way out. He is dying. The doctor has packed his case and left; the priest has been around for a few prayers and the neighbours have had their last embarrassing farewells. Left alone by his wife he knows she cannot care a damn about him. The aroma of eclairs strays into the bedroom....
by fareastdriver
Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:01 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Smoke, steam, coal and a cold pie with a mug of tea!
Replies: 43
Views: 1757

Re: Smoke, steam, coal and a cold pie with a mug of tea!

My father used to run the Railway Club in Choma, then Northern Rhodesia. In 1960 I went up there from Bulawayo to spend a few days with them before travelling to Salisbury to join the RAF. one of the drivers invited me to go on an evening trip to Pemba; change trains and return. I took up the offer ...
by fareastdriver
Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:45 pm
Forum: Rotary Nostalgia
Topic: Old mounts...
Replies: 11
Views: 1524

Re: Old mounts...

[in the firefighting role in Canada it is flown with only one pilot from the left seat using a bubble side window.]

Obviously looking at where he was going to crash.
by fareastdriver
Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:03 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470648

Re: Friday Jokes

Not as much as a Goblin compressor departing its engine and diving into the fuselage fuel tank of a Vampire T11.
by fareastdriver
Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:37 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470648

Re: Friday Jokes

That Bader joke was attributed to endless Polish pilots who were in the RAF in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
by fareastdriver
Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:34 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470648

Re: Friday Jokes

In the Maldives you are no more than ten minutes from the nice clean Indian Ocean. Why didn't he jump in to get the mud off before fouling up the bike.
by fareastdriver
Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:15 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470648

Re: Friday Jokes

When I was at El Adem in the sixties it was normal for men to walk behind their wives beside the road. Eldest son in one hand, donkey in the other.
by fareastdriver
Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:23 pm
Forum: Airline Nostalgia
Topic: I own set #336
Replies: 5
Views: 4880

Re: I own set #336

by fareastdriver
Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:48 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979498

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

Possibly a known fault with age. I had a Bosch dishwasher some fifteen years old that stared groaning when starting a cycle. Repairman walked in with what looked like a chemistry lab decanter which was the mains filter assembly. Twenty minutes to replace and he was on his way.
by fareastdriver
Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:43 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
Replies: 4827
Views: 138809

Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

That was quick.
by fareastdriver
Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:22 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
Replies: 4827
Views: 138809

Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

I will shove this in to start it up again. It's 5.950 stature miles from London.
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by fareastdriver
Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:44 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Wokeness or wokery
Replies: 98
Views: 4344

Re: Wokeness or wokery

I have avoided eating meat for a few years. I am sticking to reprocessed grass.
by fareastdriver
Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Wokeness or wokery
Replies: 98
Views: 4344

Re: Wokeness or wokery

The clatter of lead shot on the plates would keep the conversation going.
by fareastdriver
Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:26 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Replies: 33192
Views: 712242

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

Once upon a time there was a 'Sterling Area'. The New Zealand/Australian/South African/Rhodesian £ were all worth the same as the British Pound Sterling. Some countries like Kenya and Cyprus had different denominations but were stable. When decimalisation arrived the Commonwealth countries chose to ...
by fareastdriver
Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:09 pm
Forum: Airline Nostalgia
Topic: I own set #336
Replies: 5
Views: 4880

Re: I own set #336

CharlieOneSix. Are your cigarette cards stuck onto the album are are they still loose. I have a full set in a picture frame and the cards are supported by photo corners so they are as they came out of the box.
by fareastdriver
Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:56 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Replies: 33192
Views: 712242

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

There are cheaper flights but not at the time that we have to travel. The rail fare is peanuts by comparison but it takes so long.
by fareastdriver
Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:20 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Replies: 33192
Views: 712242

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

The wife's sister and brother-in-law have had a bad turn and they are both in a hospice/care home. She doesn't want to travel from Aberdeen to Norwich to see them by road or rail so we are going to have to fly. I have known from the oil industry in the 1970s that the Aberdeen/Norwich route is the mo...
by fareastdriver
Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Morris Minor Van...
Replies: 28
Views: 1008

Re: Morris Minor Van...

IIRC the cheapest new vehicle one could buy in the UK in the late fifties was a MM van. £400 rings a bell and it came with two front seats, no heater and the bodywork was painted with primer.

A quick spray. heater and a mattress in the back was all that was required.