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Old 26th Aug 2020, 10:43
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And then we pour out the liquid and send it to Salisbury disguised as perfume...

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Would-be trench artists make a beginners' error.
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Advisors training insurgents on IED manufacture find their audience has suddenly disappeared.
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 12:44
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Typical Army. The shells are fitted with the wrong fuses. The spanner is missing from the toolkit. And to top it off, all our howitzers were shipped to Vladivostok by mistake.
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 12:48
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"Yes, this is a scale model of the building known as the Gherkin; and we are training to remove its roof. Now, no more questions, please. Top Secret."
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When I said it's your turn to splash out on a round, I didn't mean this.



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Old 26th Aug 2020, 14:47
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They always said he was a chip off the ol' Soviet Block...
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 14:50
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"Airfix!!! The parts never quite fit."
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 14:52
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Leftley loosely init.....
yes but this is a Irish shell...
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“They say if you hold your ear to a shell, you can hear the sea. You try, Sergei ...”
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 16:44
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This type of fuse has a bayonet fitting, but it seems that we must have the wrong size of bayonet.
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 17:07
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And if we just tap the mould gently we will have a perfect model of Salisbury Cathedral. Did you know, Sergei, it has a 123 metre spire?
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 19:37
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Even ' The Repair Shop' struggle to dismantle the item brought to the workshop.
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Old 26th Aug 2020, 20:07
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I've met some badly clogged-up salt-cellars in my time, but this one takes the biscuit.
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Due to poverty, Boris tries to get break into the charity collecting shell outside the barracks in Moscow
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. . . 10. . . 11. . . 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nope, must be an 18 pounder.
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Old 27th Aug 2020, 04:20
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I honestly thought that the Tsar Bomba was bigger than this.
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"This is the last time that I buy fireworks over the internet".
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"Well Bloggs - You're Chopped"!
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Just in case this goes wrong, I brought a spare leg.
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