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Old 03-10-04, 16:32
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Oh gawd, another sigs type! :

Stellan, we have at least three sigs people here anyway who can communicate quite effectively in morse... can you, still? If so, I'm putting out a call for one of you to start a thread here which shall be nothing but code - no grammatical English. A hell of a challenge for the rest of us! I dare you...



A stoker, eh? Fascinating profession, but I wouldn't want to be one of the black gang when the torpedo hits...
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Well, well --- first I have to find my old handbook on the Q-code. I was trained in morse in 1963 but becoming a NCO I was naturally (like allways in the Army) never used for that purpose.

Instead I was given a mobile telephone exchange waggon. However in 1965 I was for a month or so back in the radio service but was soon transferred to teletype and ciphers.

In 1967 I was transferred to the Infantry, but still in a sigs job (12th Inf Div HQ) and wearing sigs uniform. My most interesting job in the sigs was 1972-74 with the National Defence Radio Institute (FRA) - then very secret. FRA cooperated with NSA when it came down to hear what they were talking about in the Soviet Union (now declassified).

In 1975 I made my last day in signal service beeing outdated and old fashinoned but it took to 1st July 1977 before I was formally transferred to Infantry.

Stoker: Yea, but only on tugs in Stockholm harbour and on small passenger ferries in the archipelago. I even made greaser.

Now my favourite pub is open!


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Old 03-10-04, 17:12
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Default It takes an irishman to play the pipes

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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
An easy one:

"It takes an Irishman to play the pipes!"

Title (of course), name of principal, object of comment and significance, please.


A little more obscure:

"Home is the sailor, home from the sea..."

Betcha won't get this one, but I have the movie in VHS, so I'm one-up onya...
Easy,The Longest Day-Sean Connery,talking to his mate,just before they cross the Pegasus Bridge.Don't know the second one though??
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Old 03-10-04, 17:18
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A little more obscure:

"Home is the sailor, home from the sea..."
It is a quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson originally, but I do not think that to be the answer you are thinking of?

What about this one;

"Don't tell them your name,....."

Those not from the UK may not be familiar with it.

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Old 03-10-04, 17:30
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Easy,The Longest Day-Sean Connery,talking to his mate,just before they cross the Pegasus Bridge.Don't know the second one though??
Quite so. A very young Sean Connery, even before the Bond series.

He was wailing about the piping of Bill Millin, who piped Lord Lovat's mob ashore on D-Day and hence. His famous pipes are now ensconced for all time in Edinburgh Castle, and furthermore, our own Nigel Watson was photographed with him only a couple of years ago. Somewhere in this electronic box of tricks I have that scan, and will try to find it.

The second quote... I will give you only this hint... it was an expendable American sailor repeating the poem...
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Old 03-10-04, 18:30
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Glowworm:

Re: "It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?"


A: Starwars. First Movie; spoken by Princess Leya.


Pronto .. I think we're quoting the same movie..

Art Johnson: You got it! Zulu.


New Challenge:

" .... a mixture of dirt unt sveat keeps ze zkin vaterproof."
(spoken in Hollywood's best mock german english)



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Old 03-10-04, 18:34
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Geoff,

'home is the sailor, home from the sea'

Would that be 'Cruel Sea'?

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Old 03-10-04, 18:50
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
[B]Oh gawd, another sigs type! :

Stellan, we have at least three sigs people here anyway who can communicate quite effectively in morse... can you, still? If so, I'm putting out a call for one of you to start a thread here which shall be nothing but code - no grammatical English. A hell of a challenge for the rest of us! I dare you...




Bring it on Sunray.

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Old 03-10-04, 19:20
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From the movie ZULU.
Oi!!!!!
C'mon you colonials, I said that 8 posts previously; in a roundabout and cryptic way that is.
Skags saw right through it though!

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Old 03-10-04, 19:26
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Hmmm...

Player's Navy Cut...?

Lyle's Black Treacle...?

Arran Provisions Scottish Orange Marmalade...?

C'mon, FV623, give over.
Heh, heh, heh.
IIRC you can see the name on the snorkers tin in the film and I do believe one of the cast picks one up and muses over the name, something like Mrs. Somebodies tinned sausages, however, the actual navy rations were:
Palethorpe's pre-cooked sausages.

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Old 03-10-04, 19:37
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JD Baillie
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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Oh gawd, another sigs type! :

Stellan, we have at least three sigs people here anyway who can communicate quite effectively in morse... can you, still? If so, I'm putting out a call for one of you to start a thread here which shall be nothing but code - no grammatical English. A hell of a challenge for the rest of us! I dare you... Bring it on Sunray.

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Old 03-10-04, 19:43
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Glowworm:

Re: "It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?"

A: Starwars. First Movie; spoken by Princess Leya.
Yes!!!

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Old 03-10-04, 21:02
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It is a quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson originally, but I do not think that to be the answer you are thinking of?

What about this one;

"Don't tell them your name,....."
Tongue now missing. . . . . . . . . .

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Old 03-10-04, 21:07
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You, talking to me, while trying to get Veare out of your face?
"You're being a very silly man, a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you."

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Old 04-10-04, 00:21
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OK, Glowworm...you being a veritable font and cornicopia of knowledge, what
was the plate number of the last Brough Superior ridden by Shaw/Ross/Lawrence?

Hint...it's not the same as the one in the movie.
Oh bugger. Had you been a few hours earlier I could have nipped down to Bovvy
and checked, now I'll have to use my brain.

I think "Boa", as TE called it, was GW 2275 and this is reputed to be the bike
of the fatal crash, difficult though as he had seven of them, six SS100's and
one SS80.

Will this do?

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BTW, Micklewhite doesn't raise as much Caine as he used
to.
Excellent!!!!!

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Old 04-10-04, 03:42
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You know, Harry; I always wanted to ask you but didn't because I knew you so very much wanted me to; but why do you always carry that umbrella?
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Old 04-10-04, 04:16
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He could never remember the pass word, but he knew that no German would be carrying an umbrella.

It’s from “A Bridge Too Far”
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Old 04-10-04, 09:27
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"Don't tell them your name,....."

Those not from the UK may not be familiar with it.
"Your name vill alzo go on ze list, vot is it?"

Very subtle Richard, with the key word missing you can't even Google it!

For the benefit of the gathered colonials, ex colonials et al, that august publication from the BBC still known as the Radio Times and first published in 1923, ran a survey within the last two years or so to find the top ranking quote from British TV, the subject one is it.

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Old 04-10-04, 12:04
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The film everybody is struggling with is 'They were not Divided' a very fine 1946(I think) film concerning the Welsh Guards 1944 European tour.
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Old 04-10-04, 14:27
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The film everybody is struggling with is 'They were not Divided' a very fine 1946(I think) film concerning the Welsh Guards 1944 European tour.
Yes, I've been trying for years to unearth a copy of that one, but it's not in production anywhere, and I've never seen it on TV. Supposedly, it's really well done.

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Old 04-10-04, 21:19
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"Your name vill alzo go on ze list, vot is it?"

Very subtle Richard, with the key word missing you can't even Google it!

R,

I knew you would guess it, but a bit slower than I expected with this one. Now we know how you have been so quick of the mark, you've been Googling, put him in in the back of the class, Geoff

The Aussies should know this one as they tell me it has been shown there.

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Old 05-10-04, 00:10
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R,

I knew you would guess it, but a bit slower than I expected with this one. Now we know how you have been so quick of the mark, you've been Googling, put him in in the back of the class, Geoff
Not my fault, the BT broadband pipe used by Demon has been off for hours over the last two days.

Now really!! Seeing the RT survey response you don't think there's anyone here doesn't know the phrase, surely? We just Googled it to check the off-shore security
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The Aussies should know this one as they tell me it has been shown there.
They're all doomed; doomed I tell you.

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Old 05-10-04, 00:20
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They're all doomed; doomed I tell you.


They don't like it up 'em

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Old 05-10-04, 00:39
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They don't like it up 'em

Richard
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Old 05-10-04, 22:40
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Default Back to Movie Quotes!!

"Maybe we can beat them at hockey!"
Now I know the Auzzies won't get thi one.They're to busy fighting among themselves if you note the above threads.
GWB-you know this one but stay out-.Hint to the rest-close to your hearts.
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Old 06-10-04, 01:39
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Have fun with this one!

"War starts at midnight!"

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Old 06-10-04, 06:18
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Hi All
Interesting thread. This is from one of my favourite films.

"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolph Hitler!"

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Old 06-10-04, 16:14
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Hi All
Interesting thread. This is from one of my favourite films.

"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolph Hitler!"

Bob

I know that one! That is one of my Top Ten all time favourites as well. It's Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in "Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".


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Old 07-10-04, 03:43
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Anyone get Gunner's

"War starts at midnight"?

Seems so familiar.

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Old 07-10-04, 17:57
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The movie my quote comes from was made during the war and Churchill tried to supress its production by refusing any technical aid and vehicle sp to the studio... they asked the US army who were glad to help. Thus British troops are roaring all about the English countryside in CCKWs. etc.

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Old 08-10-04, 01:31
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