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Forum: Mess Deck 29th April 2025, 15:16
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We can't leave her on shore power. There isn't...

We can't leave her on shore power. There isn't any.

(I say chaps anyone else see a marketing opportunity ? I'll get the lad to see what there is by way of extension cord. I suppose we might be had...
Forum: The Quiz Forum 25th April 2025, 10:06
Replies: 46
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Posted By Varley
I would have guessed Africa for the bean too. No...

I would have guessed Africa for the bean too. No idea for the airport although USA would be the shoe-in starting point.
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 17th April 2025, 15:50
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Posted By Varley
How is a Scottish sandwich a defence? Get a grip.

How is a Scottish sandwich a defence? Get a grip.
Forum: Mess Deck 15th April 2025, 13:39
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Posted By Varley
Fear not. Iambic pentameters show up on both X...

Fear not. Iambic pentameters show up on both X and S band radars but are not usually seen in temperate zones unless in months with a 'z'. So we shouldn't need to deploy the degaussing kit until...
Forum: The Quiz Forum 15th April 2025, 13:25
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Views: 3,289
Posted By Varley
Are these the Mayan?

Are these the Mayan?
Forum: Mess Deck 3rd April 2025, 14:28
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Posted By Varley
They haven't quite gone yet. I am engaged in...

They haven't quite gone yet. I am engaged in cooking those human dishes which they thieved the most in the hope they will eat something. I won't continue once they become fretting.
Forum: Mess Deck 2nd April 2025, 17:11
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Posted By Varley
No, they were with tails. Conceived and born...

No, they were with tails. Conceived and born within a metre of my bed-head 15 years ago so I can hardly complain. But, as you say, sad. Chief (Nabpcat) stopped hunting a year or so ago - that had an...
Forum: Mess Deck 2nd April 2025, 09:12
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Posted By Varley
Sadly, on veterinary advice and observation, I am...

Sadly, on veterinary advice and observation, I am about to lose both chief and deputy pussycats in the same week. I had been contemplating the recruitment of an assistant deputy but hadn't done...
Forum: Mess Deck 1st April 2025, 09:45
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Posted By Varley
Sir W showing us the length of his teeth. Even...

Sir W showing us the length of his teeth. Even with just a radio you could have used Consol.

Sorry to hear of the damaged relative. If he cannot grin and bear-it suggest he tries gin and bear-it....
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 28th March 2025, 16:37
Replies: 551
Views: 256,425
Posted By Varley
Do you have, perchance, the contact details of M....

Do you have, perchance, the contact details of M. le Medecin?
Forum: Royal Navy 6th March 2025, 12:54
Replies: 17
Views: 9,639
Posted By Varley
I'll remind you of the old saying. The radio room...

I'll remind you of the old saying. The radio room has tools by act of parliament. The engine room has them by act of god.

Any way. Of course I know about sockets. They's what you plug you telly...
Forum: Royal Navy 5th March 2025, 15:28
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Views: 9,639
Posted By Varley
ROy, Pa was engineer for a ML flotilla so...

ROy,

Pa was engineer for a ML flotilla so that does fit (can't remember which) but ended up in the Far East in Sembawang (HMS Sultan?) sometime after VE day (which he saw in doing a gunnery course...
Forum: Mess Deck 1st March 2025, 13:11
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Posted By Varley
#9630 In a word 'yes'. Free paint - I...

#9630

In a word 'yes'.

Free paint - I wonder how one would calculate the tariff. Rather like the 'Free World' it comes at a price we have replaced Churchill's 'Jaw-Jaw' with 'haggle-haggle'...
Forum: Royal Navy 26th February 2025, 11:35
Replies: 17
Views: 9,639
Posted By Varley
The Swiss Guard and 'our own' Gurkhas give some...

The Swiss Guard and 'our own' Gurkhas give some sort of respectability to the description 'mercenary'. Before our sometime ally joined us (as they say, late) they had sold us, paid with borrowings,...
Forum: Royal Navy 25th February 2025, 23:43
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Posted By Varley
I gather from R4 earlier today that we can fire...

I gather from R4 earlier today that we can fire what we have but we cannot get more or spares for them should they 'go wrong' (the mind boggles).

Logistically speaking therefore we should fire...
Forum: Mess Deck 23rd February 2025, 13:01
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Posted By Varley
True, but her humour is intended.

True, but her humour is intended.
Forum: Mess Deck 20th February 2025, 15:05
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Posted By Varley
Brings Pam Ayres to mind Sir W. Appalling 'luck'....

Brings Pam Ayres to mind Sir W. Appalling 'luck'.

I don't know if Capt. MacAllister had a specific for a whole mouthful of trouble and Pa's solution (string, teeth, heavy door) would work if they...
Forum: Mess Deck 13th February 2025, 15:09
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Posted By Varley
Woodward's Gripe water (better than town gas for...

Woodward's Gripe water (better than town gas for settling the little ones down Nanny reckoned).
Propter's Nicodemus pills. (Sold by aged uncles the world over)
Potter's Catarrh pastils (Tunes may...
Forum: Mess Deck 12th February 2025, 11:50
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Posted By Varley
5 Star? It must have been Conoco that arranged...

5 Star? It must have been Conoco that arranged that (joining and leaving C. Europe) Mimco would have chosen something a little more down market.

Only cure for a passing looseness is Capt....
Forum: Mess Deck 11th February 2025, 13:14
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Posted By Varley
I remember Phoenicia as an OK gaff. Might get...

I remember Phoenicia as an OK gaff. Might get ashore there for a dinner or two.

(Sister-in-law tells me on this week's Sunday sked that she has booked insanely cheap all in to Malta - from ...
Forum: Mess Deck 9th February 2025, 12:28
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Posted By Varley
I think you should ask E-S about that. He is on...

I think you should ask E-S about that. He is on the Island to the West. But Wanganella? Is this some ailment of the social kind?
Forum: Mess Deck 3rd February 2025, 13:26
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Posted By Varley
As I repeated to any of the 'up and coming'...

As I repeated to any of the 'up and coming' brethren. "If it was difficult Mrs. V's little boy would not be good at it".
Forum: Mess Deck 1st February 2025, 13:11
Replies: 9,678
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Posted By Varley
Being down to earth and having shorts are topics...

Being down to earth and having shorts are topics of which we do not speak.
Forum: Mess Deck 31st January 2025, 17:51
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Posted By Varley
That is no Leckie that is a Suez Canal Leckie....

That is no Leckie that is a Suez Canal Leckie. Something like the reverse of what M&S would like us to think an M&S Leckie would be like.

Just because he partakes of Tawny doesn't make him an...
Forum: Mess Deck 27th January 2025, 16:30
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Posted By Varley
It can't be errant skiddies. Either mine or...

It can't be errant skiddies. Either mine or E-S's. After Eaowyn they'd be off St.Petersburg by now (one tree down, fortunately fell in and not onto Peel Road, and coal hole blocked by some...
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