7th Aug 2011 Giggles - Army Rules & Military Communications

Army - Appropriate Clothing Must Always Be Worn

Brigadier Preston-Jago of the Royal Army Maintenance Corps was undergoing a court-martial for an incident where he was found to be chasing a young lady through the hallways of the Grafton Hotel, Catterick, Yorkshire, England, in which they were both residing.
Neither of them were wearing any clothing whatsoever. The main charge was that of "being out of uniform." 

The Brigadier's lawyer, a clever cove, argued that the officer was not "out of uniform", as the regulations read, 'An Army officer must be at all times be appropriately attired for the activity in which he is engaged.'
Brigadier Preston-Jago was acquitted.

Military Communications

 

One reason the Services have trouble operating jointly is that they don't appear to speak the same language.

• For example, if you told Navy personnel to "secure a building," they would turn off the lights and lock the doors.
• Army personnel would occupy the building so no one could enter.
• Marines would assault the building, capture it, and defend it with suppressive fire and close combat.
• The Air Force, on the other hand, would take out a three-year lease with an option to buy.

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7th Aug 2011 Things You Have No Need To Know

I am sure I have posted this one before, but I thought it's interesting to take a second look ... as I have forgotten half of it!

 

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ' lollipop' with your right.
• A ' jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words 'racecar', ' kayak' and 'level' are palindromes. They read the same whether you read them left to right or right to left.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

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7th Aug 2011 The Nude Diver & The Mama Mop

The Nude Diver ~

In the midst of the Arctic, with temperature at 1.5 below zero C. Natalia Avseenko, Yoga expert, dived in amongst some white whales (it's more correct name is beluga, large sturgeon fine caviar comes from), trying to domesticate them, using meditation technique to hold their respiration for several minutes. This rather risky experiment is photographed by Viktor Lyagoshkin, of KNS News. She did not dive into the deep water nude by script, but by imposition ... of the belugas, as they don't like being touched by any artificial material like that of the diving suit.

The Mama Mop ~

Three baby owls some 4 weeks old became orphans, squat and crouch down under their Mama - in this case, a floor mop, in the Rescue Centre of Wild life in Somerset, England. That ordinary domestic mop is converted to a comforting refuge for these little babies because those cloth strips seem like the wings of Mama they don't have anymore. Only when seeing how the little creatures snuggle up under the mop strips for warmth and comfort, the care-takers caught on the idea that the Mop can serve as surrogate mother.

 

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