#4410106 - 03/11/18 09:29 PM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Fullofit
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Deej, welcome to the ... where are we?
"Take the cylinder out of my kidneys, The connecting rod out of my brain, my brain, From out of my arse take the camshaft, And assemble the engine again."
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#4410109 - 03/11/18 09:31 PM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
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BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
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Gentlemen let me add my vigorous enthusiasm, oh and by the way, the bat is now being offered up for service! Barkeep, three fingers of Lagavulin if you please, and let the games begin!
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#4410496 - 03/14/18 10:47 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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RAF_Louvert
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
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BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
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After the last two days of celebration and general revelry I've been moved to recite some of my WOFF-inspired poetry. Blatant plagiarism of Kipling to be sure, but then I only steal from the best.
(Lou clears his throat, takes a long draw off a fresh pint of stout, then climbs atop the nearest upright table and begins)
There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, And it serves in such barmy detachments, That it's poor understood by the rest. Our forebeares they left us their blessing, They taught us, and groomed us, and crammed; But we've shaken the ancient few pixels To go and find out and be damned, Dear lads! To go and get shot and be damned.
So some of us fly for the Kaiser, And some of us soar for the King, And some rise up for La Marseillaise, And some for old Sam take to wing: And some of us drift up to Ypers, And some drift across to the Somme, And some share our tucker in Soissons, And some at St. Mihiel do bomb, Dear lads! At St. Mihiel get giddy and bomb.
We've painted old Flanders vermilion, We've washed the old Alsace in red, We've shouted on simulat battle, We've flown until we were dead; We've laughed at the world as we found it, From high in the spurious air, From Zeebrugge on down to Mulhausen We've battled with nary a care, Dear lads! We've flown with nary a care.
The damned depths of Hell were our portion, And Heaven at large was our share. There was never a skirmish too windward But the Virtual Legion was there: Yes, somehow and somewhere and always We were first when the trouble began, From a recce flight over old Lille, To a dogfight on high over Thann, Dear lads! We mounted and fought over Thann.
We preach in advance of the Army, We skirmish ahead of the Crowds, With never a general to help us When we're dying above in the clouds. But we know as the cartridges finish, And we're filed on our last little shelves, That the Legion that never was listed Will send barmy ones as ourselves, Good men! Hundreds barmy, just as ourselves!
Then a health (we must drink it in whispers), To our wholly unauthorized horde, To the line of our dusty foreloopers, The RB3D'ers adored. Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter, For flight simmers won't wait for the train, And the Legion that never was listed Goes back into quarters again! Regards! Goes back in the skies once again. Hurrah! The Sop and the Alby again. Here's how! The Vickers and Spandaus again. Salute! Wings O'er Flanders Fields once again!
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#4410572 - 03/14/18 07:11 PM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Robert_Wiggins
BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
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BWOC Survivor!...So Far!!
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Ahhh!, The Ode to the BWOC! How sweet to my ears! I believe that the basic melody of that tune comes from "My Bonnie lies over the ocean".
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#4410594 - 03/15/18 12:35 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Mr_Dirt
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#4410597 - 03/15/18 01:15 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Deejan
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Words of pure elegance Lou!! A beautiful ring to the ears! Hear hear! Barkeep keep these Barmy fellows awash in fine spirits and ale! Aye say I, that my backside has survived the bat! A tray of drinks to the piano...as I stagger that way...I toast you all, good sir Robert, Raine, HumanDrone,DukeIronHand,Shredward, Fullofit, Mr_Dirt, MFair, and of course Lou!! As well as too all the others that I have not mentioned. Cheers!!
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#4410599 - 03/15/18 01:30 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Fullofit
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Why is my head spinning? Oh wait, that is not my head! Beautifully done Lou. I see you’ve had one more than the rest of us.
"Take the cylinder out of my kidneys, The connecting rod out of my brain, my brain, From out of my arse take the camshaft, And assemble the engine again."
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#4410887 - 03/16/18 06:47 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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MFair
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Barkeep, another round has been requested by my good friend MFair, flagons of ale and glasses of fine spirits please! Cheers!! Thanks Deej. And that will be my limit.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end. BOC Member since....I can't remember!
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#4410904 - 03/16/18 11:17 AM
Re: The Barmy OFFers Club: Have you what it takes to be one of the daft, the touched, the Barmy?
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Maeran
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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