isn’t PoW in the Atlantic on its way to exercises?
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Could be worse, I believe only two of the four diesel powered subs purchased from the UK in 1998 by Canada has ever been in service, a combined total of 214 days. 3.5 million spent on spare parts though….
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Remember a conversation with a colleague who was on the sea trials for one of the Canadian boats. When they submerged the, now hot, exhaust vents stuck open. Lot of water coming in where it shouldn’t be at a disconcerting rate.
Willy.
They wanted to send our rescue helicopter out to assist, but it was in for repairs.
All in all, pretty embarassing really. I sincerely hope the US of A never decides to invade Canada. That’d be a right nasty weekend.
Remeber … Canada is 3000 miles long, and about 50 miles wide. The rest is tundra …
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Well, they did at least once in the past.
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Two men have been lost in the desert for weeks and are at death’s door. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a tree off in the distance.
As they get closer, they can see the tree is draped with rasher upon rasher of bacon. There’s smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life-giving juicy nearly-raw bacon, all sorts.
“Oh my, Pepe” says the first bloke. “It’s a bacon tree! We’re saved!”
“You’re right!” says Pepe.
So Pepe goes on ahead and runs up to the tree salivating at the prospect of food. But as he gets within five feet of the tree, there’s the sound of machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets. His friend quickly drops down on the sand, and calls across to the dying Pepe.
“Pepe! Pepe! What on earth happened?”
With his dying breath Pepe calls out, “Ugh, run, run! It’s not a Bacon Tree…it’s a Ham Bush”
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One of our relatives was a Lt. at the Battle of Crysler’s Farm He was mentioned in dispatches for breaking the attack by a group of American irregulars who tried to use the woodland to attack the British flank.
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If anyone on this forum had the same geography teacher that I had at school, you would remember that the diagram below was all about Raquel Welsh and the Crocodiles. Great teacher and the school friends I still talk to remember that lesson.
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They tried, but we also burned the White House down.
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Charlie Muggins: “What’s a nice girl like you doing with an old cow?”
Girl: “I’m taking her to the bull.”
Charlie Muggins: "Couldn’t your father do that?
Girl: “No, it must be the bull.”
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The results aren’t always irony, it all depends on the metal; they could also be coppery or silvery or a whole host of other colours.
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But - ionic, yes?
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A mature lady gets pulled over for speeding…
Woman: Is there a problem, Officer?
Officer: Ma’am, you were speeding.
Oh, I see.
Can I see your license, please?
I’d give it to you but I don’t have one.
Don’t have one?
Lost it, 4 years ago for drunk driving.
I see…Can I see your vehicle registration papers, please?
I can’t do that.
Why not?
I stole this car.
Stole it?
Yes, and I killed and hacked up the owner.
You what?
His body parts are in plastic bags in the boot if you want to see.
The Officer looks at the woman and slowly backs away to his car and calls for back up. Within minutes, five police cars circle the car. A senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.
Officer 2: Ma’am, could you step out of your vehicle, please!
The woman steps out of her vehicle.
Woman: Is there a problem sir?
Officer 2: One of my officers told me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner.
Woman: Murdered the owner?
Yes, could you please open the boot of your car, please.
The woman opens the boot, revealing nothing but an empty boot.
Officer 2: Is this your car, ma’am?
Woman: Yes, here are the registration papers.
The officer is quite stunned.
Officer 2: One of my officers claims you do not have a driving license.
The woman digs into her handbag and pulls out a purse and hands her license to the officer. The officer examines the license. He looks quite puzzled.
Officer 2: Thank you, ma’am, one of my officers told me you didn’t have a license, that you stole this car, and you murdered and hacked up the owner.
Woman: Bet the liar told you I was speeding, too.
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Yes, right, but that was when the Brits were running things here. Everyone invades the British holdings. The Brits just have something that everyone else wants … probably Marmite …
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