I RESIGN!
About August/September 1940 would have been the height of the battle. Seeing as how quickley things were getting done it could be argued that the Mk2A played a big enough role to have been the dominant model. I’m not saying it was but it might have been. I suppose we would only know by looking at the stats for that period.
Thanks for the info on the Mk9 I didn’t know that but here is a question. Was the Mk1 the most prevalent model in the BoB or was it (as I believe) the Mk2A?
I am not going to answer that. *&^% off I’m full!
Okay then I am.
I think this is a sport now between the the RAF and the RAFO. Who can fly the lowest? So far I think the RAFO is winning the contest. They love it and cannot get enough of low flying. Absolutely top draw professional outfit the Omanis. Very steady.
Unfortunately I am at work and the firewall won’t let me into any of them. Apparently there is the smal matter of ‘bad language’. Never.
ACCOUNTANCY SHANTY
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It’s fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
It can be manly in insurance:
We’ll up your premium semiannually.
It’s all tax-deductible,
We’re fairly incorruptible,
We’re sailing on the wide accountan-cy!
Composers: Eric Idle/John Du Prez
Authors: Eric Idle/John Du Prez
(spoken)
The world today is absolutely cracked.
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There’s fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It’s depressing, and it’s senseless, and that’s why…
(singing)
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
They only come up to you knees,
Yet they’re always friendly and they’re ready to to please.
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
There’s nine hundred million of them in the world today,
You’d better learn to like them, that’s what I say.
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
They come from a long way overseas,
But they’re cute, and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.
I like chinese food,
The waiters never are rude,
Think the many things they’ve done to impress,
There’s maoism, taoism, eging and chess.
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
I like their tiny little trees,
Their zen, their ping-pong, their ying and yang-eze.
I like chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confusious taught,
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The chinese will survive us all without any doubt.
So, I like chinese,
I like chinese,
They only come up to you knees,
Yet they’re wise, and they’re witty, and they’re ready to please
Wo ai Zhong-guo ren [Wo, I chumba run]
Wo ai Zhong-guo ren
Wo ai Zhong-guo ren
Ni Hao Ma? Ni Hao Ma? Ni Hao Ma? Zai zhen [Ne hamma? … Chi Chen]
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
They’re food is guaranteed to please,
A fourteen, a seven, a nine and li-chese
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
I like their tiny little trees,
Their zen, their ping-pong, their yin and yang-eze
I like chinese,
I like chinese,
(fade out….)
We are the knights of Camelot
We eat jam and spam and ham a lot
I HAVE TO PUSH THE PRAM A LOT!!!!
No we shall not go to Camelot, it is a silly place.
I like Chinese………………..
I’m Brian and so’s my wife….
Bruce you g1t I was going to say that! Right! You asked for this……….
I only said the was trubble at mill, I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are two things that typify the………no no, there are only three things……no hang about there are 4 no 5 things
There are only five things that typify the Spanish inquisition…
Guile
Ruthlessness
Suprise
Religion
A fanatical dedication to the pope
and comfy pillows
So there you have it, 5 things……….no ………sorry………..6 things that typify the Spanish inquistion……….
Oh bugger I’ll do that again.
I want to be a woman!
I think in the BoB he mostly flew Hurricanes and he was shot down over France in a Mk5A (a mark 5 Spitfire with machine guns only, no cannon because he didn’t trust them even after they had been pretty much perfected by mounting them in the wings on thier sides) He flew a Mk14 (I think) in the famous fly past over London at the end of the war.
Regards
Phil
He! Started it!
As a film Braveheart is well made I grant you that. It is not a bad film per se (scuse my French, you have better English) but it just annoys me. Mel Gibson was on a chat show here in Britain claiming to be a celt. Well fine but I can just imagine him calling me a Saxon (not saying this is a bad thing, I just see myself as more Celtic) because I was born in England. It seems to be how he views all people who live and work in England. Its called a double standard and there is no way you could put him straight because he simply would not listen.
I agree, it is not a bad film, but I can’t watch it, or the Patriot, because Mel Gibson has got it all wrong. His portrayal of the British during the Independance War was way out of line and totally inacurate. He is an inteligent man and I like him, all he has to do is read up on what really happened. The fact that he doesn’t suggests that he has his preconceptions about my country and will not brook any argument. You should see how the French were portrayed in Patriot. In reality France was instrumental in the American victory yet he reckons they didn’t turn up until the fighting was done and dusted. I lost a bit of respect for the bloke after those films.