Originally Posted by
drichard
A couple of observations.
(1) The old Paddy Ashdown joke. He was in a meeting in his HQ in Bosnia, which was next door to a petrol station. His staff were getting all worked up about this being a dangerous location - what if the baddies were to blow up the petrol station?
"Have any of you lot actually tried to blow up a petrol station?" asked Paddy.
"No", they said.
"Well," said Paddy, "I have, and it's bloody difficult."
(2) Marquess of Bristol. Smoking whilst refuelling his chopper at Cambridge. Then took off straight from the pumps, none of this taxying to where ATC told him to or any of that nonsense.