Nicknames
Teeteringhead
Classic (pun intended) and I only wish I knew the Latin for "O Teeteringhead, you are a one"!
Jack
Classic (pun intended) and I only wish I knew the Latin for "O Teeteringhead, you are a one"!
Jack
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When Plod officers used to have APM (Assistant Provost Marshal) on their armbands....
Mind how you go, sir....
diginagain,
I make no apologies for the thread drift, but your post reminds me of a footballer, Mike Trebilcock, who scored twice for Everton in their 3-2 FA Cup Final win over Sheffield Wednesday in 1966 (yes I know I'm showing my age). The joke on Merseyside afterwards, was that in celebration, he married the Beverley Sisters!
Back to the thread - do people remember when UpDick appeared on Jim'll fix it? Jim, take two paces sideways to distance yourself from him!!!
I make no apologies for the thread drift, but your post reminds me of a footballer, Mike Trebilcock, who scored twice for Everton in their 3-2 FA Cup Final win over Sheffield Wednesday in 1966 (yes I know I'm showing my age). The joke on Merseyside afterwards, was that in celebration, he married the Beverley Sisters!
Back to the thread - do people remember when UpDick appeared on Jim'll fix it? Jim, take two paces sideways to distance yourself from him!!!
Many of us know "Animal". Was anyone better nicknamed?
Saw him at the Winthorpe V-force reunion earlier in the year - he doesn't seem to have changed a bit!
Good to see how many hard-drinking, fag smoking, jockstrapping averse V-bomber aircrew were still in excellent form and enjoying life.
A few more Aussie ones:
Bloke of surname Ward nicknamed Warthog, so when a younger Ward turns up at the same squadron he gets Piglet.
Spew (prone to airsickness in his early flying days),
Loadmaster called Phantom because he was hardly ever at work,
'Discrepancy', now a rather well known A380 captain whose surname sounds not unlike the nickname,
'Slops' Hislop, another loady
bloke named Stu, nickname 'Pid'
too many to list
Bloke of surname Ward nicknamed Warthog, so when a younger Ward turns up at the same squadron he gets Piglet.
Spew (prone to airsickness in his early flying days),
Loadmaster called Phantom because he was hardly ever at work,
'Discrepancy', now a rather well known A380 captain whose surname sounds not unlike the nickname,
'Slops' Hislop, another loady
bloke named Stu, nickname 'Pid'
too many to list
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One from a transport sqn.
I once heard one of the Co-Pilots described as "The submarine Co". This stemmed from the fact that
1. He only surfaced every 6 months
2. He was massive and no one ever knew where he was.
Not sure it was once those 'to your face' nicknames.
I once heard one of the Co-Pilots described as "The submarine Co". This stemmed from the fact that
1. He only surfaced every 6 months
2. He was massive and no one ever knew where he was.
Not sure it was once those 'to your face' nicknames.
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We had three Marks on the Chinook OCU early on so they were naturally referred to as Mk1 Mk2 and Mk3... The RAF decided to do some recruiting posters and did some air to air sessions with the Chinook, then printed up the new posters and sent a sample for us to see, clear as day written in the exhaust staining on the back end of the fuselage was Mk3, ( who was a sooty ) the posters I believe we're scrapped 
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The 3 Marks story reminds me of a chap who was known as Westie. Apparently there were 2 people with the same surname on his flying training course: once from Glasgow, the other from Edinburgh. The instructors named them Eastie and Westie. Westie is still in, not sure about Eastie?
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There was a rather large Ops officer in the late 90's that was nicknamed FAITH, Fattest Arse In The Hangar.
Funny times, especially when people actually though that was her name...
"Why does everyone call me that......?"
Funny times, especially when people actually though that was her name...
"Why does everyone call me that......?"
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One of my colleagues at 4FTS a long time ago - he had a gorgeous Red Setter by the name of 'Tasha - Wildpig was a sterling bloke
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Sterling bloke indeed - and a beautiful Setter. He held a sword in the air at my wedding in Forfar - Wildpig not the Setter. Later on I watched him playing Polo in Happy Valley at Epi.
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Gentleman Aviator
There was a rather large Ops officer in the late 90's that was nicknamed FAITH, Fattest Arse In The Hangar.
Funny times, especially when people actually though that was her name...
"Why does everyone call me that......?"
Funny times, especially when people actually though that was her name...
"Why does everyone call me that......?"
She was known as Fiona - Falkland Islands Only Nice Arse - and some people also thought it was her real name ......