Discuss Stumpy and the Auld Sapper in The NAAFI Bar on The Army Rumour Service; blue-sophist: only wish it had been a lot more - but hopefully the book auction will make up for it!...
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blue-sophist: only wish it had been a lot more - but hopefully the book auction will make up for it!
- 20-06-2012, 17:41 #1252Senior Member
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Friday. I'll do it Friday. Stop nagging!
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.
Henry Reed
Proving that nothing has changed since World War Two
- 20-06-2012, 18:01 #1253This is why I got 5 of them
Originally Posted by davidflies 
One for me
One for the future Mrs Mac
One for the future father-in-law (an old sapper himself)
One to keep in pristine condition as a first edition
And one because I know that if I lend it out it'll be 'arf-inched (and it has already, my thieving twunt of a brother!)
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- 20-06-2012, 18:04 #1254Senior Member
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I so wish there were many more with such a public spirited mind set mac!
No I'm not going to remainder any books.
- 20-06-2012, 18:07 #1255
Of course you wish there were more like me, your flogging them and raking in the millions in a Rowling-esque fashion.
After you'd fobbed the drunken QUALITY FAMOUS PUBLISHED AUTHOR off with a couple of bottles of Lidls brandy and a pickled egg in lieu of royalties
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- 20-06-2012, 18:09 #1256Senior Member
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and a pork pie and a deep fried Mars bar! He isn't cheap
- 20-06-2012, 18:12 #1257
There's probably chicks all across Ulster that could refute that
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- 20-06-2012, 18:22 #1258Senior Member
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Right, that's it, book read, closed, picked up and bits re-read, bits read out to other people to show what I was laughing over.
What's next? I'm ready."Patience is counting down without blasting off."
Author Unknown
- 20-06-2012, 18:23 #1259Senior Member
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Try our history of Bomber Command or the Royal Navy - great reads and I promise no laughs
- 20-06-2012, 18:24 #1260
Getting the drunken old fool to knock up a screenplay for the movie
Bagsie I get to play a fat useless RCT driver
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