Re: Land Rovers & MPs (and Paras, the guilty parties, of course)

["Roger Stenning" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn Mulock wrote...

> The Defender was the best damn off roader out there.

Agreed - you tell me what damn yuppiemobile out there can do a 60%
tilt side-on without doing a ro-ro-ro (roll on, roll off, roll over)?
none bar the ol' trusty lannie!

> They may
> have been a bit touchy on the shifter. But they still went wherever
you needed
> them to. Unlike most of the SUVs out there that simply stuck a
rugged looking
> body on a road chassis, the Defenders were made for going into the
rough spots
> or "terrain unsuitable for conventional ground effect vehicles".
Here in
> Calgary, Landrover is picking up all the Defenders being sold off by
BATUS,
> reconditioning them and selling them off as "Real SUV's". They did
up the 90's
> in white or yellow paint with a black roll cover, it looks really
sharp...

Cool!

> "Here come the MP's! Act normal..."

An old hoary tale, right out of the Duty Room...

In a land rover, mid winter, in an exercise in Germany in 'The Good
Old Bad Old Days' of the Cold War, probably during "Ex. Iron Hammer",
a new Lance Corporal is being shown the ropes by an experienced full
Coporal, who's about to be boosted to Sergeant....

Experienced Corporal:
                                "Acting normal, eh? Nick the lot of
'em!"
Bewildered plastic Lance Corporal, right out of Chichester:
                                "Corporal?!"
EC:
                                "They're bloody Paras ain't they? Do
they
                                  EVER act normal, unless they've done
                                  sommat evil?!"
BL/cpl-r-o-o-C:
                                "Ah! Cheers! - OI! I WANNA WORD WIV
                                 YOU LOT!"
EC:
                                "ohshit. So much for subtlety. Now
look what
                                  you done you bloody gormless half
wit.
                                  They're f*cking legging it!"
BL/cpl-r-o-o-C:
                                "oops"
EC:
                                "Well get yer fu*ckin' skates on lad!
AFTER 'EM!"

Best regards,

Roger Stenning
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www.the-isg.co.uk
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