Well, f--k me and f-k me again, I might have previously seemed to take the piss out of the Scots ( of course, they never take the piss out of the...
Re: what ever You have just got to be kidding !? You actually knew somebody who was a Cheif Petty Officer on this ship ?! This is quite...
You got that right, compadre ! It does say a lot about the girls !! As I understand it from one of my tenants, he and the girls got stopped by...
The trouble is, Tom, that here in England the days are long gone when a policeman could exercise any discretion. Apart from the fact that they all...
Re: porkies I've lost track, amigo, having been in civvy street for well over thirty years, but isn't Welbeck the Engineer's college ? My...
Although I have properties in Vermont, NYC and North Carolina (well, that is only a plot of land), the houses I refer to in this Osama post are...
Re: BBB I wouldn't worry too much, Merlin, since I doubt that anyone could mistake your posts for mine ! I am however intrigued as to your...
Thanks a lot. This is useful corroboration or counter corroboration and both are invaluable to the researcher. As it happens the book is finished...
Yes, that's right, and it didn't get much response then, either ! The purpose of the second message was to get as much confirmation as I can of...
Thanks for your interesting message, Che, but I am really more interested in any use the Germans may have made of flamethrowers in...
I may have mentioned before that when in Las Vegas last autumn I fired off a few mags. through a Tommy and a Schmeisser MP 40. From the choice...
It is widely known that for much of it's history (which is one that I, at least , am very proud of ), the British Army not only allowed but...
It is intriguing that NBF entered the CSA as a private, since he always appeared to me to be first class officer material. I believe that he also...
Anyone know anything about this ? If true, there could be a good book in it. Apparently, the Royal and Merchant Navies, being concerned about...
Oh yeah, I was well aware that subs. have stern tubes, but I can't work out how Fluckey fired FOUR fish from them and got EIGHT hits on SIX...
Thank you, Majorwoody10, for your kind words of support. You are quite right as to my alluding to the fact that the US Army IS much more likely...
Re: Bull! "On mountain bikes and fuelled with booze" - is there any other way of doing it ?
As I recall it, the American forces had previously invaded Canada and burnt down significant public buildings in York ( which was some sort of a...
I remember this incident very well and always thought that the actions of the police were OTT, especially when they could have used either CS gas...
This reply is the most logical and relevent response I have yet received and goes a very long way towards accounting for the seeming lack of use...