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26-04-2008, 02:42 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Scotland
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You're Top Poster: #12  | 292138, Welcome aboard! Always happy to "swing the lamp" and look foward to your postings. Feel free to tell us a little about yourself and your interests if you wish. Regards Hugh
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26-04-2008, 04:52 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northamptonshire
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You're Top Poster: #8  | Hi Well I've googled "swing the lamp". I wasn't sure what it meant and wondered if 292138 was your phone number! I hope you are ex navy and if so what does the expression mean? Welcome aboard. These people are awesome!!!!
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26-04-2008, 06:14 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Dunno but am now seriously worried about what lamp it is he's swinging. Welcome to the forum numbers. Any questions about posting or anything just shout out and we'll help.
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26-04-2008, 06:58 PM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Sounds to me like telling a long winded yarn!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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26-04-2008, 10:05 PM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Quote:
1) Put on Tin Helmet 2) Pull up a sandbag 3) Swing the Lamp!
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29-04-2008, 12:51 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bedford House - soon to be Melbourne, Victoria!
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome mate, hope you enjoy it here.
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29-04-2008, 07:39 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008
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You're Top Poster: #76  | Thank you and hello again... It might be useful too clear something up here: At times, there will be two of us writing posts here, myself (292138 is/was my service number) and Junior (lets call him '53'..his age!) as I am an old codger who has failing eyesight and arthritis in every joint! '53' owns the computer and allows me to play with it if I'm good......... Right, both '53' and I are ex-Navy. He with the 'Andrew', me with the merchant service. I was ( *swing that lamp* ) a mere lad who saw service on deep sea recue tugs between 1943-47 as a 'greaser' on HMRT Destiny and later HMRT Goodwin. '53' is ex-Fleet Air Arm and saw his service firstly at HMTS Ganges as a mere lad and then with HMS Ark Royal and HMS Eagle, as a fireman. Hope that clears things up and I ( and 53) look forward to chatting some more, but its time for breakfast now and he's cooking it, so later folks.
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