Mrs Bloggs 'At Home' Etiquette/Protocols
They don't make them like this anymore..!
I prefer "Broadsword calling Danny Boy!"..
MM's probably staring out of the kitchen window - wondering what he's got himself into now that he's been invited back to the colonel's for dinner/fishing/fixing the electrics..
I prefer "Broadsword calling Danny Boy!"..
MM's probably staring out of the kitchen window - wondering what he's got himself into now that he's been invited back to the colonel's for dinner/fishing/fixing the electrics..
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I reckon Muscles has set us all up! His profile says... Last Activity: 23rd Nov 2010 05:58...
So... he hasn't been into the forum for the last 19 DAYS!!... to consider any of the highly useful advice posted, in that time!!...
There can only be two scenarios. One, he's sitting back having a great chortle about leading a vast number of PPRUNEr's up the garden path, so to speak...
Or... Two... he's been posted to a foreign location, far from any "At Home" event... thus making it so easy for him, to advise of his inability to take up the kind invitation....
So... he hasn't been into the forum for the last 19 DAYS!!... to consider any of the highly useful advice posted, in that time!!...
There can only be two scenarios. One, he's sitting back having a great chortle about leading a vast number of PPRUNEr's up the garden path, so to speak...
Or... Two... he's been posted to a foreign location, far from any "At Home" event... thus making it so easy for him, to advise of his inability to take up the kind invitation....
Was a flight plan filed? OAT or GAT? Should appropriate agencies be notified and overdue action taken? Are 121.5 and 243 being carefully monitored? Any PLBs audible anywhere?
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Have Colonel and Mrs Bloggs threatened MM with social/Parish Council/Village Hall Committee/WI exclusion if he breathes so much as a word on PPRUNE about yesterday's goings-on? Are there severe village life-limiting measures the At Homers can take against the unwitting Mr & Mrs MM? Was it such a cracking good do that MM will keep quiet of his own volition?
Either way, we need to know! Hurry!
Either way, we need to know! Hurry!
New Conspiracy
MM's wife discovered his pprunery and threatened withdraw of privilages and other sanctions unless he desisted. Potential for domestic schism and public shaming in region of Nether Wychway, convinces MM to go to ground.
Mrs MM uses computer at work to set up alterate pprune ID and monitors MM's compliance.
US serviceman in Iraq records details of Thread and posts same to Wikileaks as evidence of secretive group of dissidents operating in UK since publication of SDSR and using complex coded messages to communicate. MI5 & 6 now on trail of contributors and several 'Mods' under close surveillance, with arrests thought likely!!
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Mrs MM uses computer at work to set up alterate pprune ID and monitors MM's compliance.
US serviceman in Iraq records details of Thread and posts same to Wikileaks as evidence of secretive group of dissidents operating in UK since publication of SDSR and using complex coded messages to communicate. MI5 & 6 now on trail of contributors and several 'Mods' under close surveillance, with arrests thought likely!!
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What a laugh it would be if MM as the instigator of this thread was to consign it to history like with Ann Widdecombe by deleting it! Wonder if he knows he can do that or am i guilty of treason by alluding to this possibilty?
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It's too quiet Carruthers .....I don't like the sound of it.
thegypsy If he does delete the thread, your Courts Martial will be swift and decisive. ''March the guilty barsteward in!''
thegypsy If he does delete the thread, your Courts Martial will be swift and decisive. ''March the guilty barsteward in!''
Tonight's drama - "One of Our Airmen is Missing"
Yeh, how did it play out..."High Noon", "Mission Impossible", "The Great Escape" ...??
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Jack
Yeh, how did it play out..."High Noon", "Mission Impossible", "The Great Escape" ...??
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
Jack
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So... he hasn't been into the forum for the last 19 DAYS!!... to consider any of the highly useful advice posted, in that time!!...
There can only be two scenarios. One, he's sitting back having a great chortle about leading a vast number of PPRUNEr's up the garden path, so to speak...
Or... Two... he's been posted to a foreign location, far from any "At Home" event... thus making it so easy for him, to advise of his inability to take up the kind invitation....
There can only be two scenarios. One, he's sitting back having a great chortle about leading a vast number of PPRUNEr's up the garden path, so to speak...
Or... Two... he's been posted to a foreign location, far from any "At Home" event... thus making it so easy for him, to advise of his inability to take up the kind invitation....
Or, three, he read the sage-like advice without logging in.
Sorry, that spoilt the conspiracy a bit, didn't it
May be the Colonel's daughter has still got him tied down to the snooker table. Might explain the silence .... after all, if she was more of a fine filly than an old nag, I can't see too many of us being in a hurry to leave to write the POR if we were in that situation 
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It might be possible, that at the gathering, MM overheard someone talking about PPRuNe and some irreverent Thread about etiquette. There are spies everywhere
y'know
Even as we post....................................
y'know
Even as we post....................................
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Or it might be the case MM is a wind up merchant...... If so, no worries, this thread has been one of the best on PPrune, entertainment value....100% and hey, sitting in a tent at night with my engineer in the middle of nowhere at -25C and above, we were well entertained. I was accused of being a colonial on page 2, I do believe.......
so MM if you are reading, please accept my thanks for instigating humour at its best......and keep the posts coming. We can salvage this yet chaps, if MM fails to debrief.......
If so, no worries, this thread has been one of the best on PPrune, entertainment value....100% and hey, sitting in a tent at night with my engineer in the middle of nowhere at -25C and above, we were well entertained. I was accused of being a colonial on page 2, I do believe....... so MM if you are reading, please accept my thanks for instigating humour at its best......and keep the posts coming. We can salvage this yet chaps, if MM fails to debrief.......
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We could start our own...............
The snow made a devil of a time getting to the home but after we alighted from the car, in wellies, carrying our indoor footwear in a F&M bag which the host commented on being a good idea. (so thanks fellow PPruner's).
....... anyone willing to carry on ?
The snow made a devil of a time getting to the home but after we alighted from the car, in wellies, carrying our indoor footwear in a F&M bag which the host commented on being a good idea. (so thanks fellow PPruner's).
....... anyone willing to carry on ?
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Naturally we were amongst the first to arrive - I guess it must have been the anticipation instilled by my loyal PPrune colleagues who had done their utmost to prepare me for this encounter. Now the Col and his better half (whom he continually referred to as 'she who has to be obeyed haha') did not have the heating on - something about being poor retired military - so I opted to keep my green wellies on, especially as they went so well with my 40-year old tweed ensemble and flat cap.
........... but then I realised that I had stepped in some dog pooh and it was all over the white carpet, so i took my boots off and my socks had holes in the toes and were actually an odd pair anyway.
However, Colonel Bloggs, who Mrs B referred to as 'the colonel' offered me a drink and when I said; 'a beer please', he gave me a frosty look and came back with a can of lager which he said had been left over from the summer barB and when I popped the can it was flat and he didn't offer me a glass so I was drinking from the can when one of the retired general arrived.
"Are you raf chappie that's just moved in" queried he. "Always wondered why you fellows want to come and live in the country when you spend most of the time in some centrally heated place and only ever venture out when there's some of us wanting a lift, can't see why you're all not badged 'corps of transport' make life so much easier".
At this point, the colonel's daughter put in an appearance and well, I can tell you ..................
TO BE CONTINUED
However, Colonel Bloggs, who Mrs B referred to as 'the colonel' offered me a drink and when I said; 'a beer please', he gave me a frosty look and came back with a can of lager which he said had been left over from the summer barB and when I popped the can it was flat and he didn't offer me a glass so I was drinking from the can when one of the retired general arrived.
"Are you raf chappie that's just moved in" queried he. "Always wondered why you fellows want to come and live in the country when you spend most of the time in some centrally heated place and only ever venture out when there's some of us wanting a lift, can't see why you're all not badged 'corps of transport' make life so much easier".
At this point, the colonel's daughter put in an appearance and well, I can tell you ..................
TO BE CONTINUED