The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, October 20, 2025
Memes that made me laugh 282
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
More next week.
Peter
7 comments:
Bob Gibson
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When I started my aircraft maintenance career, I had a spool of Flite Line and a spray bottle of soapy water with labels for Prop, Jet, and Rotor Wash in my toolbox ready to apply as needed. As it turns out, they never were.
Bob Gibson, we sent the new guy for a bucket of prop wash at the nearest PCA. They told him they didn't stock it there and sent him out to the flight line PCA. He made it around most of the plant before someone explained to him what prop wash was.
B.G.: At my first base it was a regular thing that every new guy in the shop got sent all over the maintenance complex to get x, y, z from other shops and bring it back. Seems everyone but the new guy was in on it and strung him (including me) along, sending to yet another shop in search. And don't forget left-handed wrenches. :-)
My brother had to find some "eye d ten-t" forms when he was assigned to and aircraft carrier. Apparently that was a ship tradition, because when he finished (after writing it down) he had a basic idea of where everything important in the ship was.
A Naval tradition: We would be "all out of fallopian tube amplifiers" and send the new guy to another shop for one. The trick was to call the first shop before he got there (it takes a while to get anywhere on an aircraft carrier) and clue them in. They, of course, were also out but were pretty sure this other shop had some, etc. One of the smarter new guys looked for the needed amp by immediately changing into civvies and going AWOL. He came back the next day explaining that no one on board had any so he went into town looking for Radio Shack. He was advised that it was funny but don't do that again.
7 comments:
When I started my aircraft maintenance career, I had a spool of Flite Line and a spray bottle of soapy water with labels for Prop, Jet, and Rotor Wash in my toolbox ready to apply as needed. As it turns out, they never were.
Bob Gibson, we sent the new guy for a bucket of prop wash at the nearest PCA. They told him they didn't stock it there and sent him out to the flight line PCA. He made it around most of the plant before someone explained to him what prop wash was.
B.G.: At my first base it was a regular thing that every new guy in the shop got sent all over the maintenance complex to get x, y, z from other shops and bring it back. Seems everyone but the new guy was in on it and strung him (including me) along, sending to yet another shop in search. And don't forget left-handed wrenches. :-)
Don't forget the METRIC adjustable wrench!
My brother had to find some "eye d ten-t" forms when he was assigned to and aircraft carrier. Apparently that was a ship tradition, because when he finished (after writing it down) he had a basic idea of where everything important in the ship was.
Then they got a new guy....
A Naval tradition: We would be "all out of fallopian tube amplifiers" and send the new guy to another shop for one. The trick was to call the first shop before he got there (it takes a while to get anywhere on an aircraft carrier) and clue them in. They, of course, were also out but were pretty sure this other shop had some, etc. One of the smarter new guys looked for the needed amp by immediately changing into civvies and going AWOL. He came back the next day explaining that no one on board had any so he went into town looking for Radio Shack. He was advised that it was funny but don't do that again.
had a radioman on (all male) navy ship on a search for a fallopian tube
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