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Old 12th Jan 2007, 16:28
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Melchett01
 
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GK121 - I guess what goes around comes around. My ex UAS instructor was a Nimrod driver who once told me that he got no end of stick from US crews in Gulf 1 when he said that he flew a Nimrod. Cue sniggering at the back of daily briefings etc etc etc

So to find out that you have decided to call your new steed Poseidon will no doubt amuse him greatly. Especially when, if my Greek mythology is correct after all these years, Posiedon was a bit of a naughty boy who was thought to have raped Aethra thus fathering the famed Theseus. And if that wasn't bad enough, he was also one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi.

So, we called our sub hunter Nimrod after a biblical hunter of renown and had the p1ss taken out of us. At least we didn't name it after a janitor with a rape conviction Sorry, very childish I know, but it's been a long week and I couldn't resist
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