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Old 28th Jul 2013, 07:03
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ambidextrous
 
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Keep growling SASless, go get em boy!
An uncorroborated anecdote from days of yore at Aberdoom follows:
Inbound Slowbird arrives on the helicopter runway to be greeted with "Hold for the arriving "Rainbow 123" (visit of Phil the Duke), then pass behind and taxi to helicopter dispersal". Response from horny handed smallholding helicopter pilot went something like this as I recall "Hold for that waste of taxpayer's money & then pass behind & taxi to dispersal"! By the time our 'son of the soil' had reached dispersal a message from the Chief Pilot/Ops.Director et al awaited him. Following the no-doubt interview without coffee a grovelling apology was written, the threat being that the forthcoming Shell/Brent renewal would go to another operator if an apology wasn't forthcoming.
Anybody who thinks they live in a parliamentary democracy should think again!
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