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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbird67 View Post
    Not seen many references to 'hippocrocadillapigs' of late!
    Well, you haven't been on much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 762baynet View Post
    'Smash' is also an effect verb, not an official one of course, but we would all know what to do if we were ordered to 'smash the enemy at GR 345987'.
    totally agree. indeed, had an oppo say to me just last week, and I quote "we'll smash this meeting, get into the chinky and smash the buffet, then get on the smash until we get the train into town"


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    'Harry' is very old; my father tells me it was in vogue in the RAF in the 1950s, along with 'wizard'.

    Current irritations: 'cool and the gang'; 'coolio'; 'hoofing'; 'smalley' (there are lots of fishheads where I work).

    I quite like 'bigger than Ben Hur'.

    'gleaming' still heard quite a lot; is it me, or do the porridge wogs use this more than others?
    i'm guilty of saying "cool and the gang" quite a lot. I also say "gleaming" and have done since i was posted to the Guards in '94. Sorry
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    Quote Originally Posted by 8256Mick View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taff49 View Post
    soft drink walt. stims are only availabble in Brunei
    'Stim' was the brand name of a soft drink bottling company in Aden back in the day, guys would call all soft drinks 'Stims' Aden veterans of 1KOSB serving in Belize in 1978 continued calling all soft drinks 'Stims' - it obviously caught on!

    Can't recall a 'Stim' company in Brunei - but then again it's been over 40 years!
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    [QUOTE
    i'm guilty of saying "cool and the gang" quite a lot. I also say "gleaming" and have done since i was posted to the Guards in '94. Sorry[/QUOTE]

    "Cool and the gang" was prevalent in the army decades ago, the riposte was "Sly and the Family Stone!"
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    and I can report "fuckadoodledoo" is on the rise around a certain project

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    Quote Originally Posted by Busterdog View Post
    'Stim' was the brand name of a soft drink bottling company in Aden back in the day, guys would call all soft drinks 'Stims' Aden veterans of 1KOSB serving in Belize in 1978 continued calling all soft drinks 'Stims' - it obviously caught on!

    Can't recall a 'Stim' company in Brunei - but then again it's been over 40 years!
    Spot on Busterdog, the Aden bit anyway, the rest I don't have any idea about

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    Who can forget that famous flour advert's catch phrase: Nice one Cyril!

    That certainly got done to death!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbird67 View Post
    Not seen many references to 'hippocrocadillapigs' of late!
    Has someone proffed your mirror?
    If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have made the mistake that taught me what I know now, but didn't know then.

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