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From: Colonel Tupperware on 28 Nov 2009 09:17 On 27 Nov, 16:51, steve auvache <dont_s...(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote: > I happen to have contact with a two striper in the bridge building bit > of the army so I asked him why he wasn't doing it. > > Two things apparently. First they would but all their helicopters are > being used to kill ragheads and they have none to spare for domestic > emergencies and second there is the trauma they are getting over what > prevents them doing anything but writing letters to the Sun. > > I have a feeling he wasn't being entirely serious with his reply. > Last time I looked the RE didn't have any helicopeters and anyway they don't build Bailey bridges with helicopeters. More importantly, they would love to go and build a bridge but Gordon won't pay for it. I watched the news for the deaf the other day, and the woman doing the sign language had 3 goes at 'Cockermouth' before giving up. -- Tuppy en France
From: Colonel Tupperware on 28 Nov 2009 09:19 On 27 Nov, 17:45, Tim <t...(a)nospam.osvif.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Can't be _all_ of their egg-beaters because two CH-47s pass overhead on > a regular basis. But the Woka Wokas belong to Crab Air, who don't build bridges anyway. -- Tuppy en France
From: Tim on 28 Nov 2009 09:22 In message <b44db856-4b8f-4efb-bad5-4524676cf923(a)e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, Colonel Tupperware <russ.goff(a)gmail.com> writes >On 27 Nov, 17:45, Tim <t...(a)nospam.osvif.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> Can't be _all_ of their egg-beaters because two CH-47s pass overhead on >> a regular basis. > >But the Woka Wokas belong to Crab Air, who don't build bridges anyway. > I bow to your superior knowledge. -- Tim
From: DR on 28 Nov 2009 11:47 Colonel Tupperware posted: >On 27 Nov, 16:51, steve auvache <dont_s...(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote: > >> I happen to have contact with a two striper in the bridge building bit >> of the army so I asked him why he wasn't doing it. >> >> Two things apparently. First they would but all their helicopters are >> being used to kill ragheads and they have none to spare for domestic >> emergencies and second there is the trauma they are getting over what >> prevents them doing anything but writing letters to the Sun. >> >> I have a feeling he wasn't being entirely serious with his reply. >> >Last time I looked the RE didn't have any helicopeters and anyway they >don't build Bailey bridges with helicopeters. >More importantly, they would love to go and build a bridge but Gordon >won't pay for it. Apparently there's a footbridge under construction, to be built in sections off-site by the RE and transported by the Royal Logistic Corps. They can't feasibly put anything bigger in place yet. -- Darren GSF1200N K3
From: sweller on 29 Nov 2009 03:38
Colonel Tupperware wrote: > Crab Air Just wondering - do you know why the RAF are called crabs? -- Simon |