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Beagle - busy after retirement?

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Old 19th Dec 2003, 14:09
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Beagle - busy after retirement?
Does Beagle have a new career?

or is it Son of Beagle ?

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Old 19th Dec 2003, 15:32
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Due to leave the Mars Express in a couple of minutes, keep your fingers crossed.....
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That explains the delays in postings from the esteemed BEags . . .
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Not exactly high tech, tiz going to be flung on its way by means of a coiled spring.
Had the luuvies not shut down Spadeadam,and our space program prolly would have been a Englishman standing on the surface of Mars watching it come down.

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BEagle you know as soon as you step on the Martian surface, some Admin wallah will appear from nowhere and insist you fill out an "Oxygen request form" - of course in triplicate and in black ink.
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... and then of course the Admin wallah will mistype the data into SAMA and your pay statements will be more bug.gered than Huntley in the prison showers!
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Old 19th Dec 2003, 17:21
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I'm on my way to the Red Planet - vehicle separation went fine!
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BEagle,

Watch out for MARS bars in batter !!

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Mind you,30 million quid does seem a bit steep forra tichy little bit of kit like Beagle, I'm sure I cudda knocked one up in me shed for a lot less than that.
The landing balloon is a good idea though,they might think of looking ito that system for those Ejector seats you chaps use, no tricky parachutes or ropes to get mixed up, just encase the pilot in a large balloon.
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"Heave Bang!woosh!swish! bounce! bounce! bounce! bounce! bounce! bounce! bounce!bounce!bounce."

Just like having fun with a fat WRAF?

I can say that nowadays because WRAFs no longer exist!

Mind you, bouncing 30 metres up into the air...
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Watch out for the Martian Space Gremlin Beag's three quaters of all Martian space missions ends in disaster
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So Beags, a Maas bar, The Swan at Swinbrook maybe or was that the Smart place to be?.
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Ah-now you're pulling a few Levers in my memory....!!
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.......all that bouncing from BEagle made me think that a "Load Mattress" was what he really needed to ensure a soft arrival.
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Just like having fun with a fat WRAF
Will you be having one for Christmas? They take a lot more cooking than a WREN and you need an oven the size of an A330 hangar. Don't go for a WRAC they're strictly for the yanks.
Merry Christmas
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Old 20th Dec 2003, 01:13
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Hmm, not sure about that...

Giving friendly advice to a concerned young WRAF did once have its compensations. Poor little lass had been moaned about by some even older fart than I and was very grateful for a friendly shoulder. Well, that's what I assumed when she knocked on my OM room door and then came in wearing a thin black T-shirt, short shorts and a little smile. And nothing else - not even shoes. Plus she was clutching a bottle of gin.......

And that, dear readers, is all I have to say about that

There's a big red planet thing in front of me....hope it's friendly!
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Well said

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Puts the Ki-bosh on this "Men are from Venus" cr@p...

And we can still see BEagle on Mars... in a far off sort of a way...
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