This made me chuckle

[Bonzo]

A little story passed onto me


As a young lad I spent a few years as an RAF cadet, great fun. One summer we're spending a couple of weeks at RAF Sealand and someone's planned a game for us.

It was basically Capture The Flag, red team advance on an objective guarded by blue team and try to nick it. Only we're doing this at night.

The Blues (me) were outnumbered 2:1 but we were equipped with walkie-talkies to coordinate our defence. The (adult) flight sergeant assigned to supervise Blue team decided his time would be better spent propping up the bar at the local NAAFI and he brought his radio along in case things went pear shaped.

Two hours later. Two long, cold, wet, dark and very boring hours later we hadn't seen anything of Red Team when a voice came over the radio, it was one of our lads who was obviously as bored as I was. "Are there any friendly teddy bears out there ?"

A few moments silence was broken by another lad on the radio, "Yes, I'm a friendly teddy bear."

Then another, "I'm a friendly teddy bear too." "Me too, I'm a very friendly teddy bear." "I'm the friendliest teddy bear ever." Then someone started singing The Teddy Bears Picnic.

Now our irate and slightly sozzled Flight Sergeant came on the air and promptly turned it blue. He effed and blinded a lot about messing about with official RAF kit then added a few more adult type words that were educational to a 14 year old and judging by the backround laughter were entertaining to the NAAFI barflys.

When he finished his tirade the radios were silent for a full minute then a very quiet voice was heard, "Well you're not a very friendly teddy bear are you ?"

Apparently the NAAFI erupted in laughter. It didn't help that Flight's first name was Edward and when we went back the next year he was known to his peers as Flight Sergeant Bear."

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Made me laugh but then, I told you all that I was bored today

[flyerncle]

Must be somewhere you can get help.

Sitrep

SNAFU

[robo]

Brilliant.

Bob

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

Must be somewhere you can get help.

Sitrep

SNAFU

Tried the Samaritans Paul

Hung the phone up on me

[HandyAndy]

talking of walkie talkies .....

When I was in the Merchant Navy one of the first things a new crew member on their first trip was given to do once we set sail was to go on "Whale Watch"....

It would involve them being kitted out in all the wet weather gear, given a walkie talkie & told to go and stand at the bow of the ship for a 4hr "Watch" & to radio the bridge if they saw any whales in front of the ship .............The walkie talkies didn,t have any batteries fiitted

Another joke we used to play on new first trip crew ....

We,d all receive an Electric Bill under our cabin door with instructions that the bill must be paid at a specific time at the pursers office that day....we were all "in on it" & so we used to queue up to pay our bill......only after the new crew member had paid their bill would we tell them the joke & the money from their Bill was used to buy everyone a drink in the bar ( the bill was only usually £10 or so )

cheers
andy

[flyerncle]

Me too Ronnie,dont feel too bad about it

One of the Sams lives along the street and I dont get on with her either !