im new!!

[tara]

Just wanted to say that dont know if i really belong in here (brother in law in 45 commando) but you all seem a great bunch! I feel part of your family! just wanted to say hi! Hope you are all well!

[Andy O'Pray]

Hi Tara,

Welcome, come on in and have a seat.

Aye - Andy

[tara]

Andy, thanx! Been viewing this site for quite a while now but felt a little bit out of my depth replying to any topics (after all im only a student midwife and dont know as much about royal as you guys!) Thanx for welcoming me aboard!

[harry hackedoff]

God, I wish I was new

Wellcome aboard, and please give my regards to Mr and Mrs Palmer-Tomkinson.
Aye

[tara]

H, sorry but im not one of the privileged!! my ma and da called Mr and Mrs Smith!!

[owdun]

Gerraway,Mr and Mrs.Smith,could be right!!!

Only joking love,welcome aboard,advice,ignore anything Hackdoff says,

he's trouble,with a capital T.


Aye Owdun.

[Sea Soldier]

Welcome Tara,

Just being related to a Bootneck makes you "Family",so pull up a Sandbag & enjoy the fun !

Don't be put off by Corps "slanguage" ... if unsure,just ask ... someone's sure to put you right

If you haven't already,check out the "families" pages too !

[El Prez]

Now we've gotten rid of the polite talk perhaps I could interest young and curvy Tara, trainee midwife, in an immediately vacant position as Nurse's friend in my booming Theoretical Gynaecology practice. (The booming noise is coming from distraught customers husbands banging on the front door.)
As soon as I finish this PHD I should be able to work without surveillance cameras, parole officer or strait jacket. The offer has been made, pick up the gauntlet and give Nurse a break!
Typical pilot type, smooth as a badgers bum

[Sea Soldier]

Rob,

Good luck with the PHD ... I understand its very difficult & the Final Exam being particularly tricky ... the ability to wallpaper the Hall through the Letterbox

I remember reading,years ago that "Doc" Jolly was a Gynaecologist by trade but felt perfectly at home in the Corps ... as Bootnecks were such a bunch .... NO DON'T !

Bet Tara is having second thoughts now we've found "the level"

[dave barrett]

You are right about Doc Jolly's trade, Yorky. In the late 70's when he left the RN for a spell, but was making a visit to Stonehouse, I passed him and saluted, his reply was "You don't have to salute me anymore Sigs, Im a C*** Doctor now".....My riposte was obvious and immediate:
"You always were Sir!!"

Great Guy though!!

Regards Dave B.

[Sea Soldier]

Dave,

Ever read Doc's book "Jackspeak" .. The Pussers Rum Guide to Royal Navy "Slanguage" ? ... published 1989 by Palamanando Publishing,P.O.Box 42,Torpoint,Cornwall (ISBN 0 9514305 0 5).... not sure if its still in print,but I highly recommend it !

My Kids gave me a signed copy for Fathers Day 1989 ... a complete side splitter from cover to cover & the sort of book,you keep "dipping" into !

Needless to say "Royal" gets more than his fair share of "menches"
& the Cartoons by "Tugg" of Navy News fame are brilliant !

[JulesB]

"Jackspeak" is available through Amazon.co.uk in case you were wondering...................

Jules

[El Prez]

When my brat was at Raleigh she went in for her medical to be met by Doc Rick; he made a picture frame with his hands and looked at her quizzically, and then asked her "Was your dad a bootneck pilot?"
This was the umpteenth time the same question had been asked, including the RSM who conducted her first interview at the Recruiting Office.

To return to my demented thread. The final exam is quite difficult, but the really hard part is finding suitably gullible prey for the practical exam. It's also quite difficult removing certain parts of their clothing with your teeth, due to the inflexibility of the jacket without arms; the British Medical Council have been very kind in their interpretation of the law concerning medical practitioners mental states. Of course being schizophrenic has been a boon, I can look at the problem from both sides.
Nurse has just tiptoed into the room, there's a funny gleam in her eye, must be that yellow stuff the vet uses to look for fight damage. i remain yours in talcumed latex, etc etc

[owdun]

Give us a break,Rob,I read these items late at night usually,and I can't

sleep if my ribs hurt.




Aye Owdun.

[dave barrett]

ref Doc Jolly's literary career, as well as those mentioned above he has also published "In Confidence" a collection of amusing dits from S365a's and officers confidential reports, things like: The men will follow this officer anywhere....Out of sheer morbid curiosity!
I think he donated the proceeds of that to SAMA. He also did "Red & Green Life Machine", about his gang of Medico's on FI. He has also re-released his first book, a novel "For Campaign Sevice" about Royal in N.I. Initially he used a nom de plume...C. Hawke...He was serving at HMS Seahawk at the time... All his books are damn good reads, and a lot of his royalties go to charity...Yes Yorky, sad old git that I am I have signed copies of them all.
regards Dave B.