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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 This Brightened Up My Day! #57622 02/18/02 08:24 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi OP Carpal Tunnel OP Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Today, the Royal Marines invaded Spain at La Linea. Twenty of them off one landing craft. The invasion was fearlessly repelled by two local policemen, who also pointed out that they should have turned left instead of right before rushing the beaches. Read all about it ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1827000/1827554.stm The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57623 02/18/02 08:40 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York hehehe... thanks for the laffs, CapK. I love this bit of Brit understatement: The British Ministry of Defence said it was a situation it would "rather not have taken place". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57624 02/18/02 09:19 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear CK: start a collection to buy the Royal Marines a couple dozen GPS units. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Muddied Up My Day! #57625 02/18/02 09:24 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 "rather not have taken place" Boy, howdy! I'd sure like to see me the whole quote and not just only this exerp. I'm having me some trouble tryin to figger out how this ain' passive. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57626 02/18/02 10:48 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 144 London, UK R rkay member rkay member R Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 144 London, UK Aaaah, the MOD - always the masters of the glorious British understatement! So timely as well, seeing as how we're about to start arguing over who owns Gibraltar anyway! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #57627 02/19/02 12:03 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57628 02/19/02 12:05 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 >Dominique Searle, editor of the Rock's daily newspaper, The Gibraltar Chronicle said: "What a boob." Not what you would like your marine officers to be known as I would think Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57629 02/19/02 09:15 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi OP Carpal Tunnel OP Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England According to The Independent, a corporal on the landing craft said "The mistake was caused by the most dangerous thing in the world - an officer with a map." You just gotta love these squaddies, doncha? The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57630 02/19/02 09:32 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York R Rubrick addict Rubrick addict R Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York Today, the Royal Marines invaded Spain at La Linea. Twenty of them off one landing craft. The invasion was fearlessly repelled by two local policemen, who also pointed out that they should have turned left instead of right before rushing the beaches. And this is the nation which colonised half the known world?? Explains a lot. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This Brightened Up My Day! #57631 02/19/02 11:01 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Kiwi, I'm giggling helplessly. Thank you. "The mistake was caused by the most dangerous thing in the world - an officer with a map." Sounds pretty much like cross-county driving tirps in the keiva family. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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