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- Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:34 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10964
- Views: 528315
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....
- 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: 1841
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 ...
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: Rotary Nostalgia
- Topic: Old mounts...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2764
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.
Obviously looking at where he was going to crash.
- Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:03 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10964
- Views: 528315
Re: Friday Jokes
Not as much as a Goblin compressor departing its engine and diving into the fuselage fuel tank of a Vampire T11.
- Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:18 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19906
- Views: 1080794
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:15 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19906
- Views: 1080794
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:37 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10964
- Views: 528315
Re: Friday Jokes
That Bader joke was attributed to endless Polish pilots who were in the RAF in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:34 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10964
- Views: 528315
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.
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10964
- Views: 528315
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.
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:23 pm
- Forum: Airline Nostalgia
- Topic: I own set #336
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6113
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:48 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19906
- Views: 1080794
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.
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:43 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4942
- Views: 166590
Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
That was quick.
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
- Replies: 4942
- Views: 166590
Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
I will shove this in to start it up again. It's 5.950 stature miles from London.
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:44 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Wokeness or wokery
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4952
Re: Wokeness or wokery
I have avoided eating meat for a few years. I am sticking to reprocessed grass.
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Wokeness or wokery
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4952
Re: Wokeness or wokery
The clatter of lead shot on the plates would keep the conversation going.
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:26 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
- Replies: 33192
- Views: 798572
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 ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:09 pm
- Forum: Airline Nostalgia
- Topic: I own set #336
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6113
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.
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:56 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
- Replies: 33192
- Views: 798572
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.
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:20 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
- Replies: 33192
- Views: 798572
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...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:06 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Morris Minor Van...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1041
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.
A quick spray. heater and a mattress in the back was all that was required.