Milspec bog paper at Northolt
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Milspec bog paper at Northolt
I had the pleasure yesterday of visiting RAF Northolt, on a press trip down to Newquay and back in an Air Atlantic Metro. All good fun, esp. the low-level display from two pointy things after we landed in Cornwall.
But I wasn't prepared for two aspects of airbase life: first, the glass cabinet stuffed with booze and fags that's pretty much the first thing you see once you get past the FOD board. Excellent -- even if it wasn't breakfast, as I'd hoped. Second, and far more worrying, why is the bog paper suitable more for cooking fairy cakes on than its ostensible purpose? I thought that sort of sphincter masochism went out with the War Ministry. Or does it improve bombing performance?
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But I wasn't prepared for two aspects of airbase life: first, the glass cabinet stuffed with booze and fags that's pretty much the first thing you see once you get past the FOD board. Excellent -- even if it wasn't breakfast, as I'd hoped. Second, and far more worrying, why is the bog paper suitable more for cooking fairy cakes on than its ostensible purpose? I thought that sort of sphincter masochism went out with the War Ministry. Or does it improve bombing performance?
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Ahh memories after 20years at Her Majesties pleasure and 3 at Northolt....We used to call it John Wayne paper, It's rough it's tough and it takes no **** of anyone!!
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It's probably one of those apocryphal stories! I was told about it back in the early '70s. It seems that a royal-only thunderbox was installed at some god-forsaken outpost of empire in preparation for a Royal Visit. The sewage outfall was, predictably, direct into the adjacent ocean. But they'd reckoned without the cunning of the good old erk. With the aid of a stopwatch and a potato, the lads timed the interval between flush and ocean.....and waited for the real event. The royal flush took place, the stopwatch was started and a shrimp net carefully retrieved the 'item' in question. Which was then dried, varnished, sprayed silver, mounted on a piece of polished wood and placed in the Officers' Mess silver cabinet with a small label inscribed 'Presented to the Officers of RAF ******* by HRH ******* on the occasion of her visit on .........!!'.
Probably totally untrue - but certainly plausible!!
[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]
Probably totally untrue - but certainly plausible!!
[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]
kbf1 - yes, many were the sheets of Izal medicated which I used to pinch from the bog at my prep school to use for tracing maps etc! Gave one's exercise book a characteristic chemical odour.
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... at least you could write on it if you had the solution to the world's problems while on the throne. I find that double soft stuff extremely difficult to use when all I have is a trusty 2B pencil.
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nearly spot on, only said airfield in middle of nowhere (Indian Ocean) had only three letters (beginning with G, ending in N) and was displayed on wall behind entrance door.
Ah the good old days of 14 days of SAR Standby for the truckies (and others!)
nearly spot on, only said airfield in middle of nowhere (Indian Ocean) had only three letters (beginning with G, ending in N) and was displayed on wall behind entrance door.
Ah the good old days of 14 days of SAR Standby for the truckies (and others!)
Those who were around a (long)while ago may remember that the supplied bog paper used to have a little box printed on the top of each sheet. It's purpose? ... the user was required to tick the box after use ... 
: now that COULD have been apocryphal.
The HRH story BTW was from El Adem and the outfall was onto the 'bundoo', not the sea.:
: now that COULD have been apocryphal.The HRH story BTW was from El Adem and the outfall was onto the 'bundoo', not the sea.
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I thought that sort of sphincter masochism went out with the War Ministry. Or does it improve bombing performance?
We Colonials figured the real trick out a few years ago: rather than using the offending paper in the standard way, swallow several sheets of it as the final course of one's meal — it wipes completely "hands-off" as a result of coming out last!
