Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Nemo on January 28, 2016, 06:24:00 pm
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Today, when sailing my Atlantis: 'Look darling, a galleon' {-)
Heard any similar?
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Any smaller it might have been Pinta
Ned :D
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I don't know what they were going to buy between themselves but I once heard 'three of us are going halves!' :o It made me laugh....... U2
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Any smaller it might have been Pinta Ned :D
As in Drinka Pinta Milka Day? ;) Or maybe you are too young to remember the Ad?
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Pinta was one of Mr Columbus's trio.
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Ned 74 in 2016 O0
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Me too Ned! July. :-)) Not forgetting the Nina! O0
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I have stood lakeside with a controller and told people I have a sub, then staid there for an hour twiddling!
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One of my greatest amusements is that almost every time I sail my HMS Skirmisher someone points to it and says "Look, the Titanic !" Black hull, three buff funnels seem to be enough for a positive ID. Occasionally a passer by will claim it is a "Battleship" instead, which makes a change and is at least closer.
Of course these are usually followed by the inevitable two questions "Did you make it yourself?" and "How much did it cost?".
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As in Drinka Pinta Milka Day? ;) Or maybe you are too young to remember the Ad?
"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases"
I can't listen to the German national anthem without hearing Mr Hancocks renditition
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I have stood lakeside with a controller and told people I have a sub, then staid there for an hour twiddling!
I think I once met your brother, sitting on the kerbside with a fishing rod held out into the traffic.
To humour him, an old lady asked him how many he'd caught.
"You're the fifth" he said.
(They don't tell 'em like that any more.....well, not often)
DM
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Many kinds of wildfowl inhabit my sailing venue. Once a small girl approached me and asked in the most perfect English 'What are you doing? ' pointing at my radio. I explained to her in what I thought was the way to explain the workings of R/C to a possible 7 year old. she replied, 'Thank you, but I understand you perfectly', at which I was a bit startled. To change the subject, I pointed to the lake saying, 'Look at that Mother duck and all her baby ducks following her', and she gave a huge sigh and said. 'Ectually, they are goslings!' Put me in my old man place that did! %)
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All is not lost in our educational system then..
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I also hear........no boat today? Or you bring them and put them on the table but we never see them on the water.......answer to that is I sail at 10am you get here at 11 am, do the maths.
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Klunk, how very, very true! The other old chestnut as I got yesterday, whilst lugging my 35 pound Atlantis from the car-park to the waters edge and struggling to erect my sails, rigging and masts in a breeze - 'Are you going to put it in the water?'
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Normally people fall over when I put a boat on the water! And do you notice no one offers to help lugging an atlantis around!
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Hi Klunk we get do they all work plus I like your battleship when you have a corvette with you.
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How fast does it go, mister?
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Is that an army ship mister?
No it's HMS Illustrious. >>:-(
Ned
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>>:-( Man comes up to me and asks "where did you buy the boat my son wants one" I explain that I made it,bemused look on mans face "but where did you buy it" I then gave up and carried on sailing >>:-(
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when ever i bring out a submarine...
always, very first question...
"you mean it really goes under water?"
followed by "how deep will it go?"
then "does it fire torpedoes?"
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when ever i bring out a submarine...
always, very first question...
"you mean it really goes under water?"
followed by "how deep will it go?"
then "does it fire torpedoes?"
You get a better class of punter! We get "Does it sink mister?"
" No my young whipper snapper, the correct term is 'submerge'"
I then get a well deserved torrent of abuse for being a stuck up t*t!
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Last summer three of us were sitting on our plastic chairs at the lakeside playing with our boats, watching the ducks and generally saying nothing to each other. A young lady, with a French accent, walks past, looks at us, grins, and asks "Last of the Summer Wine?"
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Normally people fall over when I put a boat on the water! And do you notice no one offers to help lugging an atlantis around!
Before I even got it rigged yesterday a man asked 'What range does it have?' To which I gave my usual reply, 'About 3 miles' O0
Another classic which I am sure I am not alone in being asked - 'What do you do if it gets stuck in the middle'. My usual response is always 'In the middle of what?'
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Last summer three of us were sitting on our plastic chairs at the lakeside playing with our boats, watching the ducks and generally saying nothing to each other. A young lady, with a French accent, walks past, looks at us, grins, and asks "Last of the Summer Wine?"
Sure that wasn't - 'Last of ze Summer Wine?' {-) Haw he haw.
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the best I have had was whilst doing a viking re-enactment, cooking a chicken over an open fire on a spit - someone came up and asked - is that plastic?
Grendel
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remember once i was sailing my la sub and a woman said "look at shark" near dropped my tx
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On Sunday I was asked by a young lady how long it took to build my 'tug-boat'. O0
This is my 'tug-boat'! %%
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Easy mistake !!
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remember once i was sailing my la sub and a woman said "look at shark" near dropped my tx
Graupner used to make a submarine called the "Shark", maybe she knew more than you thought...
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While sailing a Victoria (yacht) - "What makes it go?"
I sometimes wonder how, where and why we got a reputation as a seagoing nation. A thought that gets repeated every time I see someone in one of the hire rowing boats making a determined effort to row it backwards. Or two rowers working in opposition and being mystified as to why they were just spinning on the spot.