...and two from my days in the Service.
" This officer is not the sort of man to set the world on fire, but should he find it so he would be one of the first to put it out."
and, when on Varsity's:
Pilot Officer xxxxxx operates the throttles of the Varsity with the enthusiasm of a beserk Lascar seaman operating the bilge pumps of a sinking tea clipper, rounding Cape Horn, in a force nine gale."
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Lou Scannon