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Old 5th Jul 2007, 06:43
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chuks
 
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Did someone say "Crusade"?

Sign me up! I used to get out my C.O.D. (Concise Oxford Dictionary, purchased from a "When I" who had been issued it by the very Royal Air Force), fire up my word processor and write sort of counter-memos for the bulletin board.

At one time I even reeled in Captain Wahallah-Belly. He had written a three-page, single-spaced screed to Redhill Management and all the ships at sea, complaining about a cod memo re: tuning of satellite channels at the BRC, not realising that it was a complete spoof. Not even the bit where we had voted by grunting and waving our hands tipped him off. Unfortunately wiser counsel told him that he might not want to hand that one in, when he retreated to try and think things over.

Aviation is a target-rich environment for crusaders against big words that mean nothing. On the other hand, crusaders usually never rise above being line-slime, so you have been warned!
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