Truisms

[JAVELINBOY]

If your boomerang doesn't come back it was probably a stick

[DirtyProp]

If your stick doesn't come back, you have a dumb dog.

[goudie]

Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.

[denachtenmai]

It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission

[denachtenmai]

If it doesn't say that you can, then you can't. RAF.

If it doesn't say that you can't, then you can. Navy.

Den, (ex RAF, but did some time with the fish heads)

[Pontius Navigator]

Originally Posted by denachtenmai

If it doesn't say that you can, then you can't. RAF.

To which you can say "It is safer and easier to say No, than to say Yes"

And the corollary,

"If you bypass the CoC and approach the big cheese he will say yes."

[Basil]

Originally Posted by denachtenmai

If it doesn't say that you can, then you can't. RAF.

If it doesn't say that you can't, then you can. Navy.

Den, (ex RAF, but did some time with the fish heads)

"Intend depart Gan 17May1969 1400Z to Masirah for calibration task*."

(* "Thereby permitting two days beach and bar activities on Gan." Not transmitted.)

[Penny Washers]

There is a perfectly sensible and obvious answer to the problem . . . . . but for the moment it escapes me.

[West Coast]

A woman's body is God's greatest masterpiece.
A woman's mind is God's biggest mess.

I'm gonna go test that one on the missus....let you know.

Kansas is so flat you can watch your dog run away for a week...

Friendly fire isn't.

[Pontius Navigator]

Work expands to fill the time available.

If you want a job doing give it to busy man.

If one man takes half a day to dig a hole two men will take a day. Three men will take a day and a half, and four never.

[Shiny10]

Sign above my engineering desk

If we can't fix it then it's not broken!!!!!!!!


"Home is where the Air Force sends you".

[langleybaston]

Have we done

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move paint it.

Then there is the most frightening sight in the world to a Pongo: an officer with a map.

Ditto to a bootneck: a matelot with a rifle.

[Penny Washers]

Quite right, Pontius. A similar one is:

A boy is as good as a man.

Two boys are as good as half a man.

And three boys are no use to anyone at all.

[Penny Washers]

Wind is made by trees, waving their branches about.

[Pontius Navigator]

Originally Posted by Shiny10

If we can't fix it then it's not broken!!!!!!!!

If it works before British Gas services it they will repair it and return again and again.

[ricardian]

Originally Posted by Cazalet33

Half-height half-blind half-cripple, pickled in brandy.

You've obviously met one or more of my flight commanders from my time in the RAF (1959-73)

[ricardian]

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)

[Rosevidney1]

No good deed goes unpunished. Ever!

[DirtyProp]

If it ain't Boeing....
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....it's gotta be Airbus!

[DirtyProp]

A picture is worth a 1000 words....