The Pedant's Revolt

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

The Bow of the Ship is, exactly, where the Jack Staff ---- IS !

And this -- from an Army Man

[Angela Woodford]

I thought the bow was the front and the stern was the back? I want to be posing at the front!

It's confusing for me. My sailing experience is limited to a rowing attempt on a leisure pond sometime early Sixties.

I still hear the megaphone cry though, "Come in, no 20!"

[Fjgrogan]

Well done, Maria, your father will be proud to hear that you have remembered his frequent exhortations that it is only a Union Jack when flown from the jack staff of a ship. One of the useful things one tends to pick up when 'married' to the Sea Cadet Corps for 42 years.

[sejintenej]

I thought the bow was the front and the stern was the back? I want to be posing at the front!

One house I was brought up in had just such a figurehead over the stairs - perhaps 100 years old, off a clipper ship and very very wooden where the toredo hadn't burrowed. (She was discretely unclothed!)

JR I don't know if she was on or off the Good Ship ........

[J.R.]

I thought the bow was the front and the stern was the back? I want to be posing at the front!

One house I was brought up in had just such a figurehead over the stairs - perhaps 100 years old, off a clipper ship and very very wooden where the toredo hadn't burrowed. (She was discretely unclothed!)

JR I don't know if she was on or off the Good Ship ........

They can be worth a fortune !!

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Why I should be watching TV advertisements for Women's hair products, I don't know --- I am expecting something better !
HOWEVER --- I notice an increasing mangle of English,


VOLUMEISING !!! --- I ask you ?

(To avoid the "Gender" accusation -- I would say the same about a man's advert !)

[englishangel]

They are all a load of Boswelox if you ask me.

[J.R.]

My Doctors pharmacist doubts my sense of humour.

Yesterday, I was prescribed a steriod nasal spary for a lingering Sinus infection.

I phoned her to say that it had given me a severe gippy tummy.

'Why's that ?' She asked.

'Because the label said I must shake extremely hard before use !' I informed her.

Some people just don't have a sense of humour !

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Earlier on this Thread, we discussed giving names to "Reception"
I went into Munchen Gladbach Military Hospital, and when asked, I gave my full name --- Neill Purdie Evans,
The Officer behind me (An RASC Major) gave his Surname,"Moncrieff" and when asked for his Christian name, replied "I don't use my Christian names"
I instantly twigged --- but the Clerk didn't -- "I'm sorry Sir, but I must have your full names ------- "Right" says the Major, and proceeded to give about eight of them -- the Clerk is scribbling in the margins !
As we sat down I giggled and asked "Are you the "Moncrieff of Moncrieff " ?
He replied "No I'm a junior member of the Clan, and I have a crumbling Castle and an Estate which keeps the Castle --- I earn my living as an Army Major !!!

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

On leaving Big SChool at the 60+ Re-union I was confronted by a sign -----

LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S TOILETS
I was pleased to note, although I could not stop to admire (!!!) that Apostrophes at CH, are still placed correctly !

Be of good cheer --- the World is not ending !

[sejintenej]

My Doctors pharmacist doubts my sense of humour.

Yesterday, I was prescribed a steriod nasal spary for a lingering Sinus infection.

I phoned her to say that it had given me a severe gippy tummy.

'Why's that ?' She asked.

'Because the label said I must shake extremely hard before use !' I informed her.

you forgot to rattle and roll

[sejintenej]

Earlier on this Thread, we discussed giving names to "Reception"

During a not-so-recent conflict his wife rang my cousin at the base to which he had been seconded. She asked, logically, for Commander Major only to be told in contemptuous tones by the American telephonist at the naval base: "We don't have majors here". The stupid merkin then slammed the phone down.

[englishangel]

I remember an interview with Larry Hagman who as a GI requested permission to marry his Swedish fiancee, Maj. he was told that an enlisted man was not allowed to marry a female officer.

[jhopgood]

In Colombia I worked with a Nigel Yeo, from the West Country. He had the habit of just saying his surname when answering the phone, i.e, Yeo, which sounds like Yo, meaning I, (or me), in Spanish.
He had various "Who's on First" type conversations as the caller tried to work out who was answering.

[englishangel]

In Colombia I worked with a Nigel Yeo, from the West Country. He had the habit of just saying his surname when answering the phone, i.e, Yeo, which sounds like Yo, meaning I, (or me), in Spanish.
He had various "Who's on First" type conversations as the caller tried to work out who was answering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M