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Post by cv10 on Aug 24, 2017 17:29:09 GMT -6
So I'll start with this quote from the British sitcom show Get Some In about 4 RAF Conscripts in the 1950s. I should preface this by explaining that one of them, Christopher Lily, led a really sheltered life as the son of a CoE Vicar. This is from an episode where that focuses on the poor quality of the food in the cookhouse. I think that this is PG-13, but if it isn't I'll be happy to delete it.
Chris Lily: "What do they put in the tea here?" after spitting out his tea.
Bruce Leckie:"Bromide"
Chris Lily:"What's bromide Bruce?"
Bruce Leckie:"It keeps ya from gettin Randy"
Chris Lily: "What's randy Bruce?"
Bruce Leckie: "Nothin that concerns you"
From the same episode after DI Marsh and Corporal Jenner think that they've killed Lily by locking him in a freezer:
Marsh: "I'll shop you to the SPs"
Jenner: "I'll shop you to the CO"
Marsh: "I'll shop you to the Air Ministry"
Jenner: "I'll shop you to the House of Lords"
Marsh "Well don't you worry son. I'll shop you to the Queen!"
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Post by cv10 on Oct 14, 2017 12:54:52 GMT -6
So this one comes from the Russian Empire:
"Ingrate!"
After the Decemberist Uprising in 1825, Tsar Nicholas I had the portraits of complicit officers taken down from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace taken down. However he also has some of them turned around so that the blank back of the paintings faced out. He that had the above word written, so that passerby would know what that person was.
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Post by randomizer on Oct 14, 2017 13:26:14 GMT -6
"All that matters Is we have got The Maxim gun And they have not"
Hilaire Belloc explains successful Imperialism
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Post by oldpop2000 on Oct 14, 2017 22:42:28 GMT -6
An old Navy saying: When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of airplane, only then can it fly.
Trust me, its true.
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Post by cv10 on Oct 14, 2017 23:10:59 GMT -6
"Government figures report that there are currently more civil servants at the Department of Inland Revenue than there are sailors and officers in the Royal Navy. Perhaps the Government feels that a tax is the best form of defense"
Frank Weisel quoting a newspaper Yes Minister. Here's another exchange from the same show
"We have 4 captial ships, so we need only 4 admirals and one admiral of the fleet," -Sir Humphrey Apply
"How many admirals have we got?" -Prime Minister Hacker
"Sixty," -Sir Humphrey Apply
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Post by cv10 on Oct 14, 2017 23:51:18 GMT -6
This is less of a quote, but here it is
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Post by cv10 on Dec 17, 2017 1:01:11 GMT -6
In the spirit of Christmas:
"Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer dead over Madrid after colliding with a 747 passenger jet. Eyewitnesses report that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane"
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Post by williammiller on Dec 17, 2017 11:15:29 GMT -6
In the spirit of Christmas: "Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer dead over Madrid after colliding with a 747 passenger jet. Eyewitnesses report that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane" LOL...glad I was not drinking my coffee this morning!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Dec 17, 2017 19:30:51 GMT -6
In the spirit of Christmas: "Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer dead over Madrid after colliding with a 747 passenger jet. Eyewitnesses report that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane" LOL...glad I was not drinking my coffee this morning! A moment of silence for Rudolph......
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Post by Enderminion on Dec 18, 2017 13:33:52 GMT -6
I would tell a chemistry joke but I don't think I would get a reaction I would tell a chemistry joke but the good ones argon
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Post by cv10 on Jan 8, 2018 16:05:45 GMT -6
“What do they mean by sending the mutinous ships to me? Do they think that I will be hangman to the fleet?”
Admiral John Jarvis, 1st Earl of St. Vincent
This quite was said in response to ships that had mutinied at the Nore being sent to the Mediterranean Fleet, which he commanded. This was apparently done in part due to his own ferocious reputation regarding mutineers. He once relieved an subordinate for objecting to hanging two mutineers on a sunday and on another occasion, threatened to sink a warship when its crew refused to carry out another mutineer's hanging (they quickly changed their minds). He also broke a midshipman for letting a boarding party pillage a ship and then assigned the midshipman (post-breaking) to scrub the the heads of the flagship
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Post by cv10 on Feb 7, 2018 10:48:06 GMT -6
"Heil Boothby!"
Lord Robert Boothby was a was a british politician who, in the 1930s, managed to obtain a personal meeting with Hitler during a trip to Germany. Slightly intoxicated and no one having explained protocol to him, he was ushered into Hitler's office. Hitler stood, gave the nazi salute and the perfunctory "Heil Hitler!" Boothby, unsure of how to respond and not wanting to seem impolite, replied by returning the salute and shouting "Heil Boothby!"
He later remarked that the meeting left him convinced that Hitler was mad.
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Post by cv10 on Feb 15, 2018 15:36:39 GMT -6
"If I can trip up Sam, the Government’s bust!"
During the acrimonious debate over the Government of India Bill in 1935, Winston Churchill accused Samuel Hoare (Secretary of State for India) of breach of parliamentary privilege by meddling in the testimony of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Select Committee that was considering the matter. Churchill's opposition to it was seem by many in his own party as disloyalty, and they thought he had hopes of pulling down the leadership. During a parliamentary debate on this, Leo Amery quipped "fiat justicia ruat caelum" which means "may justice be done, though the heavens fall". Churchill, who had failed the Latin entrance exam while at Harrow, demanded he translate it. Amery replied with the above quote.
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Post by cv10 on Mar 7, 2018 17:15:05 GMT -6
Mike Crosley was a fighter pilot in the Royal Navy during World War II. In 1945 his squadron was aboard a carrier sent to the Pacific and while docked at Port Said, he and several friends went ashore. They passed by a bordello, having been told a cautionary tale about a group of officers in Cairo.
"We had been warned about such things by the more experienced officers on board. Our Chief Engineer, Commander Holt-Wilson, told us how some friends of his in another ship had fared one night in Cairo, earlier in the war. They had been caught with their pants down in ‘Mary’s’ — a house of evil repute in Cairo. The reason they had been caught was because Mary’s suffered a direct hit with a bomb. They thought they had better submit ‘Hurt Certificates’ in case their visit had any long-lived consequences — from the bomb damage. When they came to the column in the Hurt Certificate which asked them to ‘Name the place of duty where the injury occurred’, they gave Mary’s address. Their Lordships returned their certificates, demanding what duty they were performing there. Back went the reply to the Fleet Medical Officer at Alexandria, that they were blown in through the front door by the bomb blast as they happened to be walking past. So they received their certificates in due course."
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Post by cv10 on Jul 3, 2018 12:21:40 GMT -6
Radar O'Reilly: "Sir, HQ just called. They said we could be expecting an enemy attack!"
Colonel Blake [Hungover and have just endured a very loud and tense conversation with Major Houlihan]: "Radar, that's the nicest thing I heard today,"
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