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“Don’t stand in front of me when I’m steering ... I might bump into something.”
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"Higgins - I've told you before! If you shout "Dive, Dive, Dive!" one more time, you're back on submarines for good!"
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"You might well have come off bombers - but there's no point shouting "Corkscrew, Skipper!" - we don't allow any sharp objects on board!"
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"Tower, R101 - Request Join for run and break"
ATC: "Certainly, request your ETA!"
"R101 - how about next Tuesday?"
ATC: "Certainly, request your ETA!"
"R101 - how about next Tuesday?"
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One day they will install windows like this in a military transport aircraft.
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I think you will find that it is a speaking tube - but it could of course be both! Not at the same time, though. Well, perhaps it would work if you felt like giving someone an earful!
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Mein Kapitan... really..., wiz all due defference, you must realise that gepisst from the gondola is frowned on by zer Fuhrer!
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Gare à l'eau! !!
++The word gardyloo is a warning cry uttered before throwing wastewater (literally and euphemistically) out of a window. Every source I've found has traced this word back to some French phrase translating as "watch out for the water." However, the specific French phrase seems to vary.
Historically it is supposedly why men are always to walk on the curb-street side when escorting women- Since the 'morning' waste water/effluent in the day was tossed out from the 2nd or third story windows ( hopefully ) into the gutter ..
++The word gardyloo is a warning cry uttered before throwing wastewater (literally and euphemistically) out of a window. Every source I've found has traced this word back to some French phrase translating as "watch out for the water." However, the specific French phrase seems to vary.
- Wiktionary: "Garde à l'eau"
- The Free Dictionary: "Gare à l'eau"
- oxforddictionaries.com: "Regardez l'eau"
- unusuedwords.com: "Garde de l'eau" or "Gardez l'eau"
Historically it is supposedly why men are always to walk on the curb-street side when escorting women- Since the 'morning' waste water/effluent in the day was tossed out from the 2nd or third story windows ( hopefully ) into the gutter ..
Last edited by CONSO; 2nd Oct 2018 at 22:45. Reason: explain the term