http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-138540 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:35:46 +0000 dvo4fun 138540@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>OK. Own up! Heard a rumbling noise and room started to shake. Being a sad old git I thought 'sounds like a Rolls Royce Merlin engine'.<br /> I was wrong, it was four engines and the bloody thing has just flown over my house. Didn't have the bomb-doors open so perhaps it was just a warning. But who grassed? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135891 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:12:55 +0000 Jonny Shlep 135891@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I say! Wizard prang skipper!</p> <p>Cabbage crates over the old briny chaps. Let's bag a few hun before tiffin.</p> <p>HUZZAH! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135888 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:18:40 +0000 Midfield Diamond 135888@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, congrats dvo. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135887 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:06:36 +0000 Perks 135887@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fine FP Dvo </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135194 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:41:08 +0000 dvo4fun 135194@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks</p> <p>@Sinnick - probably right about Terry but having found it never flew in anger I couldn't resist The Joke #2.</p> <p>@Boutros - I had it in m' head [wrongly I've now found]that FP length was up to 450 words. The add-ons took it to c. 430, so good point.</p> <p>Edit: Won't bump it again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135180 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:29:04 +0000 Boutros 135180@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good. A bit long maybe. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135169 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:07:21 +0000 Sinnick 135169@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good, but the reference to John Terry is a little off-topic.</p> <p>Hope to see this as a NiB </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135161 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:15:50 +0000 Yikes 135161@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good stuff! </p> <p>The additions look spot on. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135129 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:12:24 +0000 dvo4fun 135129@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't usually do re-writes but thought I could add the John Terry bit to the first paragraph from line 3, so it now reads:</p> <p>The RAF’s only airworthy Lancaster bomber was effectively ‘shot down’ yesterday, in a prank played by the pilot of a German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft. Both airplanes had been performing at an air show at Duxford air museum. Lancaster PA474 was only built after the war in Europe had ended and so never actually flew in combat. Nevertheless, for many years now it has been flown around the UK, appearing at all manner of festivals and indeed national celebrations, taking the plaudits for a win in which it took no part. A sort of aeronautical precursor to John Terry, but lacking the latter’s immense destructive capability. </p> <p>And a new last sentence to the second paragraph:</p> <p>Following a recent restoration the WW2 Me 109 is visiting the UK on a Nelson Mandela Goodwill &amp; Reconciliation tour. German air force pilot Jurgen Morfflung, who as a serving military officer cannot be named for security reasons, was putting the machine through its paces and ‘hunting the enemy’ as part of a WW2 re-enactment. He outlined the events to reporters today “Of course, contrary to your UK propaganda, the Me 109 had the edge on the bomber’s Spitfire and Hurricane escorts and I soon out- manoeuvred them both. As I banked round over the runway, the Lancaster appeared in my sights and I let it have a ‘pretend’ 3 second cannon burst. I’d quite forgotten that we’d loaded it up with paint balls – mostly red but with a yellow and blue tracer - and it made quite a mess. A bit like John Lennon’s ‘psychedelic 1960s Rolls Royce, only a little more tasteful. Anyway, if they didn’t want to be shot at, why paint a target on the fuselage?”</p> <p>Maybe I really should get out more. </p> <p>cheers </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-135128 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:12:23 +0000 dvo4fun 135128@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't usually do re-writes but thought I could add the John Terry bit to the first paragraph from line 3, so it now reads:</p> <p>The RAF’s only airworthy Lancaster bomber was effectively ‘shot down’ yesterday, in a prank played by the pilot of a German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft. Both airplanes had been performing at an air show at Duxford air museum. Lancaster PA474 was only built after the war in Europe had ended and so never actually flew in combat. Nevertheless, for many years now it has been flown around the UK, appearing at all manner of festivals and indeed national celebrations, taking the plaudits for a win in which it took no part. A sort of aeronautical precursor to John Terry, but lacking the latter’s immense destructive capability. </p> <p>And a new last sentence to the second paragraph:</p> <p>Following a recent restoration the WW2 Me 109 is visiting the UK on a Nelson Mandela Goodwill &amp; Reconciliation tour. German air force pilot Jurgen Morfflung, who as a serving military officer cannot be named for security reasons, was putting the machine through its paces and ‘hunting the enemy’ as part of a WW2 re-enactment. He outlined the events to reporters today “Of course, contrary to your UK propaganda, the Me 109 had the edge on the bomber’s Spitfire and Hurricane escorts and I soon out- manoeuvred them both. As I banked round over the runway, the Lancaster appeared in my sights and I let it have a ‘pretend’ 3 second cannon burst. I’d quite forgotten that we’d loaded it up with paint balls – mostly red but with a yellow and blue tracer - and it made quite a mess. A bit like John Lennon’s ‘psychedelic 1960s Rolls Royce, only a little more tasteful. Anyway, if they didn’t want to be shot at, why paint a target on the fuselage?”</p> <p>Maybe I really should get out more. </p> <p>cheers </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134984 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:13:50 +0000 button 134984@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice one dvo </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134983 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:11:07 +0000 dvo4fun 134983@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Now I have 'Lauren' 'Polo' &amp; 'Ralph' tags ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134952 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:59:06 +0000 Perks 134952@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep, what they said, except for the bit about Ralph Lauren.</p> <p>'A bit like John Lennon’s ‘psychedelic paint-job' 1960s Rolls Royce, only a little more tasteful' made me chuckle, stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134890 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:44:39 +0000 nickb 134890@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yup </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134889 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:36:59 +0000 custard cream 134889@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant, well done, max. stars! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46942#post-134870 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:29:24 +0000 dvo4fun 134870@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The RAF’s only airworthy Lancaster bomber was effectively ‘shot down’ yesterday, in a prank played by the pilot of a German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft. Both aircraft had been performing at an air show at Duxford air museum. </p> <p>Following a recent restoration, the WW2 Messerschmitt 'Me 109' was visiting the UK on a Nelson Mandela Goodwill &amp; Reconciliation tour. German air force pilot Jurgen Morfflung, who as a serving military officer cannot be named for security reasons, was putting the machine through its paces and ‘hunting the enemy’ as part of a WW2 dog-fight re-enactment. He outlined the events to reporters today “Of course, contrary to your UK propaganda, the Me 109 had the edge on the Lancaster's Spitfire and Hurricane escorts and I soon out- manoeuvred them both. As I banked round over the runway, the Lancaster appeared in my sights and I let it have a ‘pretend’ 3 second cannon burst. I’d quite forgotten that we’d loaded it up with paint balls – mostly red but with a yellow and blue tracer - and it made quite a mess. A bit like John Lennon’s ‘psychedelic paint-job' 1960s Rolls Royce, only a little more tasteful.”</p> <p>The Dulux ordnance covered the windscreen and blocked the air intakes of the Lancaster’s engines, with the result that the five man crew had to bail out. Morfflung denied rumours that he then circled round and strafed the parachuting air crew “I was just checking they were all OK and my thumb must have accidentally hit the ‘Fire’ button. Five times in fact. I’ve no idea how their flight suits became covered in red paint with flecks of yellow and blue.” </p> <p>All of the Lancaster’s crew were uninjured and its pilot Squadron Leader Thomas Edwards was philosophical about the loss of the aircraft. “I’m sure Jurgen didn’t mean anything like this to happen. But as I was trying to steer my parachute and avoid landing in the sewage works, he flew past slowly with the cockpit canopy pulled back. I could swear I heard him say ‘For you Tommy, ze war is over’.” </p>