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24 Oct 06 - 06:48 AM (#1867066) Subject: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Paul Burke US Navy threatens Clyde ferry! How to win friends.... |
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24 Oct 06 - 08:23 AM (#1867111) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Rapparee Let's see what the Coast Guard reports. |
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24 Oct 06 - 09:57 AM (#1867222) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Paul from Hull Perhaps they were reluctant to board it, with potentially, a dozen or more Glaswegians on board... |
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24 Oct 06 - 11:14 AM (#1867287) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: SINSULL "They were never in any danger." If that means that the warship would never have opened fire, there is another chink in our armor. Watch for an influx of students with beards getting ferry captains' licenses but having no interest in docking techniques. |
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24 Oct 06 - 11:15 AM (#1867288) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Paul from Hull *ROFL* Nice one, Sinsull! |
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24 Oct 06 - 11:18 AM (#1867292) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Megan L Hells teath if there were more than a dozen Glaswegians on board even auld nick wid be wise tae leave it alane :) |
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24 Oct 06 - 11:32 AM (#1867305) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Skipjack K8 Sins, that is a classic! Funniest thing I've read in weeks. Brilliant! |
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24 Oct 06 - 12:57 PM (#1867374) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: McGrath of Harlow There has to be a song about it. |
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24 Oct 06 - 04:46 PM (#1867573) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: GUEST,Inevitable guest The US Navy Dept.has come clean and admitted a sat-nav malfunction.The warships over-reaction was due to being wrongly placed in the Shat-Al Arab. Coincidentally,Captain MacFish also believed himself wrongly placed in the Shat... |
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25 Oct 06 - 04:37 AM (#1867953) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Dave Hanson Given the amount of times the US Forces have opened fire and KILLED friendly forces, I think there was a real danger. If they had known there were Glaswegians on board it may well have panicked an American warship. eric |
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25 Oct 06 - 05:41 AM (#1867983) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: GUEST,Diva Its awful chust..if Dougie was here he wid tell you himsel!!!!! I feel a ballad coming on |
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25 Oct 06 - 07:03 AM (#1868020) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Sung to the Skye Boat Song Sing me a song of a ship that is gone, Joining the foreign fray Born of the Clyde, filled with Scots pride On schedule to Gourock she lay Kilcreggan was astern, enroute to her port, US Cruiser on the starboard bow. Threat from her guns, and sinking her sport Where is that story now? The radios blast, as the cruiser rushed past was all her passengers see The US Navy will defend to the last Their right to be wrong at sea |
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25 Oct 06 - 09:25 AM (#1868155) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: GUEST,Nellie clatt US Naval Intelligence, oxymoron |
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25 Oct 06 - 10:25 AM (#1868248) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Bunnahabhain It is slightly better than them ordering a lighthouse to change course. Somewhere off canada, a few years ago, IIRC |
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25 Oct 06 - 10:35 AM (#1868259) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: McGrath of Harlow What is the US Navy doing in Scottish waters anyway? The Scots never invited them, that's for certain. |
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25 Oct 06 - 10:40 AM (#1868268) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: GUEST,Och eye They're looking for Scots Wahabi Wali Spread. |
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25 Oct 06 - 12:24 PM (#1868381) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Mingulay "Bluidy Yanks again" "More steam Mr McPhaill, more steam. They're no molesting ma sister again" |
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25 Oct 06 - 01:18 PM (#1868422) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Cap'n ye cannae have muir steam, they sold a'w ma coal and put a bluidy diesel in ma engine room.... Dinnae tell me they're at puir Maggie again? thats the fourth time this week.... |
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25 Oct 06 - 01:20 PM (#1868426) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: McGrath of Harlow Here is the BBC News version of the story - Ferry receives US warship warning "It was human error, plain and simple, someone pressing the wrong button," said a navy spokesman. Which is the kind of comment to send chills down your spine. After all, the Cold War may be done with (for now anyway), but there are still thousands of nuclear weapons in service. |
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25 Oct 06 - 01:52 PM (#1868457) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Megan L ach Mcgrath dae ye no ken theres some right bonny ladys in Dunoon |
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25 Oct 06 - 02:10 PM (#1868480) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Micca Ach its just Sunny Jim having a pant! |
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26 Oct 06 - 10:35 AM (#1869110) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Bunnahabhain If you want bearded religious fanatics, speaking in an inconprehensible accent, running ferries about in Scotland, the Western isles are a better bet. |
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26 Oct 06 - 01:03 PM (#1869229) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: GUEST The thought of men in skirts is kind of frightening. |
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26 Oct 06 - 01:08 PM (#1869232) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Peace "If they had known there were Glaswegians on board it may well have panicked an American warship." wregian to English? Who would they get to translate from Glaswegian to English? |
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26 Oct 06 - 01:24 PM (#1869245) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Megan L Ach haud yer wheesht we spik thion furn english chust fine an so we do |
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26 Oct 06 - 03:25 PM (#1869334) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: McGrath of Harlow Pedantic note: I'd doubt if the crew on board would have been likely to have been Glaswegians, any more than Para Handy was. |
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27 Oct 06 - 10:03 AM (#1869959) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: Diva quite right macgrath and the vital spark the finest puffer that ever sailed on the clyde chust |
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27 Oct 06 - 10:17 AM (#1869974) Subject: RE: BS: Para Handy joins Al Qaeda? From: greg stephens Chust sublime. Chust sublime. The Boat Band, on one occasion in the Firth of Clyde, were invited to board a USA navy ship in similar circumstances, as they wanted us to play them a tune. Unfortunately we had a somewhat pacifically inclined anti-American musician with us, so we declined the offer. Alas: i would have found it interesting. |