June 10, 2004 at 8:23 am
Was reading the local (free) newspaper this morning when I noticed the TV-listings for tonight. National Geographic is showing a documentary about the Dambusters. I do think though that the guy who wrote the description hasn’t really seen it himself….. or is it that some people just don’t get it?? :confused:
Anyway, here’s what it says:
In the spring of 1943 a squadron of Lancasters breached two large dams deep in Germany using a spinning garbage can filled with explosives.
😮 🙁
By: JDK - 10th June 2004 at 20:55
Hi dH,
No, I wuz listnin real careful like, an he sayd ‘Aeroplanes’ like a good ol boy outa. 😀
By: DazDaMan - 10th June 2004 at 18:02
The RAF wouldn’t use a ‘garbage can’ or a ‘trash can’. It’d be a ‘bin’!
Presumably the self-service version of the ‘wheely bin’ – a ‘bouncy bin’.
Isn’t that Ted Rogers’ pal? 😉
By: dhfan - 10th June 2004 at 15:06
Nothing to do with this thread, but regarding JDK’s signature.
I know you lot did a great job of training and re-educating our tame Yank, but are you sure he didn’t say “airplanes”?
By: JDK - 10th June 2004 at 13:21
The RAF wouldn’t use a ‘garbage can’ or a ‘trash can’. It’d be a ‘bin’!
Presumably the self-service version of the ‘wheely bin’ – a ‘bouncy bin’.
By: Morley - 10th June 2004 at 13:09
Maybe the writer of that comment knows more than you do? Or possibly it was meant as a joke!
By: DazDaMan - 10th June 2004 at 08:28
That’s British ingenuity for you 😉
The jet engine was really just a guy who’d eaten too many cans of beans stuffed into a tube, too 😉