Tell us Something Really Trivial about your Life (VOL 30)

[DickyC]

You've just come round from the latest batch of sugary what, for heaven's sake? If there are petit fours up for grabs we should have been informed earlier. It's only fair.

[DickyC]

You did well. So well in fact that a new official position beckons. You could be Chronicler in Chief. The insignia is a quill pen embroidered on each epaulette in silver thread. What do you say?

[DickyC]

Are you suggesting you weren't formerly inducted but remained "in waiting"? This is highly irregular. Did you complain?

[DickyC]

There's an Induction Trolley doing its rounds later. Head it off at the pass.

[DickyC]

nonsequitur said:

Not very well, I'm afraid. Total gibberish. (To anybody not a member of the Magnificent Seven.)

Can I be Kikuchiyo?

Assuming I'm one of the seven.

Which, thinking about it, is a bit of an assumption.

[DickyC]

Hold on. "The kitchen pass"? The kitchen pass synonymous with Mrs Brassington?

You made a pass at Mrs Brassington?

[DickyC]

Your secret is safe with me.

[DickyC]

That was an unfortunate accident as well you know.

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

I’m in Brighton next week

Corks at the ready

Corks burned in candle flame? Covert Ops? Rollover, one action, commando stuff, safety off, left and right, both barrels through the Pavilion.

[DickyC]

No, that's Frank Admissions.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

Been thinking of all those Brave young men who were traveling to France tonight in 1944 They had a gigantic task ahead and many would not see the following day

RIP
REMEMBER THEM

Well said.

[DickyC]

So who do you picture in the lead roles when you sell the film rights?

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

I find it embarrassing that WW1 & WW2 are not taught as part of the history curriculum in schools today, it's such a hugely important part of this country's, if not the worlds, history!!!

There might be a few books available if you would like to study at home.

[DickyC]

fatboy18 said:

Apparently his body did get repatriated back to the USA some years later.

Having a cup of tea mid-researches at the National Records Office in Kew I got talking to an Aussie who was over to look at First War records. He asked me to guess how many Australian servicemen who died in the First War are buried in Australia. The answer is two; the most senior officer and the Unknown Soldier.

Tough for family. It's tough enough going to visit the War Graves without having to travel halfway round the world first.

[DickyC]

Was it Penfold?

[DickyC]

Bomma220 said:

DickyC said:

Was it Penfold?

Very close.

Well, His name wasn't Very close of course, I mean your answer is very close.

The reason I suggested it was that the Gibson family company made its money from supremely clever inventions. Guy Gibson's middle name, Penfold, was in honour of an invention made by his grandfather for a folding pen. It was just unfortunate that this was was premature as the idea never reached production. The convenience of owning and carrying a folding pen with its space saving advantages was nullified by the necessity of carrying a bottle of ink with you after the failure of the company to master the ink reservoir to nib sealing problems for the pen during its folded phase.

[DickyC]

My middle names are Splash Fk It Look At My Trousers.

The vicar dropped me in the font.

[DickyC]

TT - The Trivial Trousers Tread.

Hello CC, good to see you. Pop in more often.

[DickyC]

Jim AK said:

George was the Hippo in Rainbow with Jeffery & Zippy.

There’s a bloke locally to Jim AK Acres who was a pilot of some sort, a Mr Flack.

He’s known as Ack Ack!

Brassington?

There was a lad at school called Flack. Unusual name.

[DickyC]

Barker, Bradley, Brooks, Brown, Carter, Cutler, Davis, Day, Fallowell, Glascock, Green, Hall, Hambledon, Harpur, Hayes, Henderson, Ings, Jones, Law, Ludkin, Macklin, Napper, Oates, Sheed, Weakford, Flack. 

Sheed, Weakford and Flack all arrived after the start of term but Sheed and Weakford arrived in alphabetical order.