Ho Ho Ho Ho! Greetings!

[JD Baillie]

I'ld like to wish each and every one of you all here at MLU a very merry Christmas and a safe if not sober new year. It has been a pleasure reading/posting here. I look forward to next year with you all.
Take care and bless you all.

Rgds
JD
Vic BC

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by JD Baillie
I'ld like to wish each and every one of you all here at MLU a very merry Christmas and a safe if not sober new year. It has been a pleasure reading/posting here. I look forward to next year with you all.
Take care and bless you all.

Rgds
JD
Vic BC

Well, thanks, JD.

Not being much of an Xmas type guy, your sentiments are appreciated.

Still stuck in bull low, four wheel drive?

Originally posted by JD Baillie
I'ld like to wish each and every one of you all here at MLU a very merry Christmas and a safe if not sober new year. It has been a pleasure reading/posting here. I look forward to next year with you all.
Take care and bless you all.

Rgds
JD
Vic BC

Well ... I'll be darned. I got in to actually POST!!!!! Have been trying all day to reply to some posts but it hasn't worked for me ... until now!!!!!!!! I'm using someone elses computer that has two different browsers going on it and that MAY be the problem :

Your Merry Christmas must have worked for me JD ,,, thank you so much for the Merry Ho-Ho's and wishes for a safe {and sober } New Year. Little Miss MA is pretty happy to have a very different scene this X-mas and 2005 should unfold many a new experience ... all good to go My youngest daughter Elysia (21 til Feb) will be here. We saw each other last ... last Christmas so one of my favorite and best gifts (tho certainly not the ONLY one, for several amazing positive gifts of varying types have kinda-sorta blessed my life) will be to lay eyes and a huge long hug on her

All the best to YOU and YOURS as well ... for both Christmas AND 2005. May your Master Arthur Itis begone from doze ole bones

Karmen

PS: MARKO and OTHER OLD FARTS ... you KNOW where I'm headed right now, don't you. Ye think the wee bittie Little Miss Ma did NOT notice yore activities of late? Well ... some of you will get to meet my frying pan after all ... SOONER than you may think. So watch yore old heinies )

[JD Baillie]

Jon,

Still stuck in four wheel drive:
sung to 'Dashing through the Snow':
Here we go,
In Bull Low,
Stuck in four wheel drive,
Swamp aboders on my tail,
I don't know how to drive,
But we don't care,
'Cause we don't scare,
Especially when we're drunk,
We don't fear the two towed sloth,
Nor the creature from the swamp!

Hear us laugh and sing,
For we have made a goof,
We drove into the lake to find,
Our truck's not water proof,
When you hear those engines roar,
You know that Sigs is here,
But when you hear the burps and farts,
The linecrew's got the beer.

Now Betsy she's our truck,
She runs real good on liquer,
And when she starts to buck and bump,
She's love sick for the wrecker,
Now you may have your doubts,
That Betsy guzzles juice,
So how do you explain the fact,
Winington-ball has raped the duce??

Happy holidays.

JD
VVV

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by JD Baillie
Jon,

Still stuck in four wheel drive:
sung to 'Dashing through the Snow':
Here we go,
In Bull Low,
Stuck in four wheel drive,
Swamp aboders on my tail,
I don't know how to drive,
But we don't care,
'Cause we don't scare,
Especially when we're drunk,
We don't fear the two towed sloth,
Nor the creature from the swamp!

Hear us laugh and sing,
For we have made a goof,
We drove into the lake to find,
Our truck's not water proof,
When you hear those engines roar,
You know that Sigs is here,
But when you hear the burps and farts,
The linecrew's got the beer.

Now Betsy she's our truck,
She runs real good on liquer,
And when she starts to buck and bump,
She's love sick for the wrecker,
Now you may have your doubts,
That Betsy guzzles juice,
So how do you explain the fact,
Winington-ball has raped the duce??

Happy holidays.

JD
VVV

JD:

You just brought a long ago forgotten tune back into my head!

Line crew indeed!


Also, "We're Signals, we drink alcohol
We're Signals, we do bugger all
We're Signals, so if you're a queer,
Bugger off and be an Engineer".

Signals, once
Signals, twice,
Holy, Jumpin' Jesus Christ
Pass your message, Out"

V V V

[JD Baillie]

"Line crew indeed!"

052 will do you.

How about:
Roll me over, signal soldier,
Roll me over, lay me down & do it again....

Or

I've been workin' with the line crew,
All the live long day,
I've been layin' lots o' cable,
Just to pass the time o' day,
Can't you hear the Sgt. yelling,
Burr Head climb that pole,
Can't you hear the Sgt. ye-elling;
The strand chair is your goal..
Etc
(to Dina)
OR
(12 days of...)
On the first day of MilCon the CO gave to me,
A warning that I shouldn't get drunk...
On the second day of MilCon, the CO gave to me,
Two line trucks and a warning that I shouldn't get drunk,

Three reels of cable and a warning that I shouldn't get drunk,

Four crook sticks....

Five! kegs! of beer!, and a warning that I shouldn't get drunk,

Six Warrants wishing...

Seven Looies leaping...

Eight Captains cringing....

With nine Generals Gawking...

Over ten switch board operators...

Eleven Linemen drooling...

Twelve charge reports for...

.... AND A WARNING THAT I SHOULDN'T GET DRUNK!

Well Jon, that's some of my carols at this time of year! Enjoy.

JD
VVV

[Jon Skagfeld]

Ho, Ho, Ho Greetings, indeed.

MOC 052...independent movement, due to operational requirements, meant doing a recce for the nearest beer store...then grabbing a RadOp to send, in clear, certain codewords (cobbled together previously from bastardized CANFOROPS CODE or CANFORNAGEN) so that the rest of the MilCon guys could "suck back and re-load".

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

All the best at Christmas and New Years from the management and staff at MILITARY MANUALS..We thank you for your patronage in the past and look forward to you visiting our extensive collection of military manuals..with the largest collection of Canadian military vehicle Manuals(Copies) offered for sale in the world..
New additions are regularly added and the list has grown to almost 150 manuals...a combination of American and Canadian(CMP) vehicles used by Canadian forces in WW2 and the Korean war...
We ship world wide and would like to take this opportunity to thank you and wish you and yours the best in the new year.
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[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Christmas fast approaches, although given the frustrations of the last moving week, it doesn't seem like it

Anyway... I would like to pass the best of the season on to you, my friends around the world, from both Ma Yappy and myself, from our snow-dusted rooftop apartment in the east end of Old Toronto. Our hearts are with all of you.

Now, would you Aussies PULLEEEASE send us some of your summer?!

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Now, would you Aussies PULLEEEASE send us some of your summer?!

Wednesday
Fine and sunny. Light southeasterly wind and fresh afternoon and evening seabreezes.
Current Temperature: 21 C
Forecast Max: 25C
Wind Direction & Speed: WNW at 3 knots
Humidity: 50%
Pressure: 1012.6 hPa

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Wednesday
Fine and sunny. Light southeasterly wind and fresh afternoon and evening seabreezes.
Current Temperature: 21 C
Forecast Max: 25C
Wind Direction & Speed: WNW at 3 knots
Humidity: 50%
Pressure: 1012.6 hPa

I just have ONE thing to say to the likes of yore Aussie assie ...

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Wednesday
Fine and sunny. Light southeasterly wind and fresh afternoon and evening seabreezes.
Current Temperature: 21 C
Forecast Max: 25C
Wind Direction & Speed: WNW at 3 knots
Humidity: 50%
Pressure: 1012.6 hPa

Thanks for the weather report, Keefy....... now PISS OFF and go back to chasing sheeps around Max's pasture...

PS: The windchill factor here yesterday was -39C... much better now, danke gott, but bloody merciless for a time, I tell you!

[Keith Webb]

Thursday/Friday
Tonight and Friday Fine tonight. Mostly fine tomorrow with just the chance of a shower or two. Moderate north to northwesterly wind shifting moderate to locally fresh south to southwesterly wind during the early morning.
Current Temperature: 35 C
Forecast Max: 22C
Wind Direction & Speed: W at 1 knot
Humidity: 18%
Pressure: 1002.1 hPa

Well, it's a little cooler, I'd say high 20s, 8.27 PM in Melbourne and I'm sitting on the deck with the Powerbook, wireless of course in shorts, sandals and my TORONTO Canada T-shirt enjoying a glass of chilled white wine. Just off to the left is my trusty CMP, Christmas Eve tomorrow, wonderful.
The birds are settling in the trees, I can hear noisy mynahs and the occasional Kookaburra.
If I could bothered getting my camera out I could take a relaxed self-portrait with a S.E.G.
This is the lucky country. Does life get any better? Possibly, but this is pretty good.
Stay warm, Canucks and at least vicariously enjoy our weather.

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Now, would you Aussies PULLEEEASE send us some of your summer?!

Only if you can send an esky full of snow to put our beer into!

An old Aussie Infantry Christmas carol (part, thereof):
To the tune of "Oh! Christmas tree!"

"We like it here, we like it here,
F***in' oath,
we like it here!
And even thoooooooooough we have malaria,
We still patrol the F***in' area,
We like it here, we like it here,
F***in' oath, we like it here!"

Merry Christmas to all Canucks, Poms, Yanks, Dutchies and Swedes (Mates every last one of you). We will celebrate Xmas hours before you, but 2 hours behind the Kiwis! Special Xmas greetings to Mexicans, Banana Benders, Sandgropers and Crow Eaters! (You know who you are!)

Well, there is certainly no need to dream of a white Christmas as we have the real thing : Beautiful to look at ... but gotta drive in it in about 3 hrs

(Merry Christmas to all from Ma Yappy )

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

No snow in Stockholm today - but a sunny day so far.

At 12H15 today changing of the Guards will be performed at Stockholm Palace.

After retiring from active service I am in charge for the Guards Military Band.

I attach a photo of the Band wishing You all A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!

Originally posted by Tony Smith
Only if you can send an esky full of snow to put our beer into!

Hey! Ripper mate.
Have 'em send you a bucket of Atlantic prawns too. . . . . . . . . .

Merry Christmas.

24/12/04 at 10:53 GMT no matter what the MLU clock says.

R.