PA announcements

[CRR]

Having been a regular at the Pod since it opened in 1966, I've heard quite a few announcements over the PA which have stuck in my memory as being extremely funny or surprising in some way.

The funniest announcement I ever heard at the Pod was in the early 1980's when the Pod didn't have flush toilets but had thunderboxes, ie just a hole in the ground basically. It was a summer time meeting when the toilets were really humming. The commentator, probably John Price, got everybody's attention when he said "We're looking for a knight in shining white armour to help a lady in distress". He then went on to say that a woman had dropped her handbag down the toilets and would somebody be brave enough to rescue it! Somebody must have been really brave because Pricey came on 10 minutes later and thanked the man concerned.

Clive

[CRR]

Another one that springs to mind and made me laugh was in 1982 at the height of the Falklands War. The RAF had got the upper hand and were shooting down most of the Argentinian planes. At a Pod meeting at this time, a little old biplane flew sloooooowly over the strip, and Pricey said, "There goes the remnants of the Argentinian airforce."

[CRR]

That's why it always starts raining at Shakey at the startline first because, as with most runways, it's also in a SW/NE direction, but they run in the other direction to the Pod.

This is getting a bit Anoraky isn't it!