FAQs 2012 update

**MANICHAEAN** · 01-12-2012, 03:31 PM

Hill

Thanks for lightening up the beginning of this year with your piece. I laughed out loud, upsetting my gin & tonic and disturbing the flight crew. You seem however to have missed out one of the more significant of the usual suspects, namely "country doc." He is in a class of his own when reviewing the threads of others. ROAR.

Mention might also be made of those, who seem to copy and post, page after page of religious doctrine with seemingly no real intent at discussion. I do however smile at the tomes of Turkish Ottoman history submitted by "mesolzhenitsy." He is not trying to convert a soul, and his video of himself playing Davids Harp would redeem him anyway.

**Hawkman** · 01-12-2012, 05:01 PM

Hi hill,

Very amusing, if not entirely acurate

With regard to my listing in your Ususal Suspects, you seem to have confused me with Dafydd Manton in your bio. My area of service was altogether more watery - lol. It was my father who was RAF, although he flew bombers.

Like me you will have grown up in that period when the most popular enquiry in the playground was, "What did your dad do during the war?" Considering that the vast majority of schoolboys' literary intake was derrived from "Tuppeny Bloods," amongst one's contemporarys, it was perhaps unwise of me, having wearied of this enquiry, to respond that my father had been a U-boat commander, especially when living in a British port and Naval Base. The fact that I was believed, and subsequently treated as a pariah, has forever coloured my perception of the level of intelligence prevalent in the general population.

Typically, when I told my father of this many years later, he roared his head off and was quite tickled at the thought of being described as a U-boat Ace. Interestingly, there are at least 3 U-boat commanders with similar sounding surnames, so maybe the photos of him in his RAF uniform are fakes! It might explain his predilection for Wagner....

Live and be well - H

**hillwalker** · 01-12-2012, 07:24 PM

Thanks for entering into the spirit of the piece @Aunty – so you really are American? (kidding)- and so what if your pom poms aren’t what they used to be. You still give good feedback.
Special dispensation for #7? Mhmm.

Let me think.

No.

@MANI – hope I didn’t cause too much turbulence. And my oversight of certain members was not intentional – a case of selecting those who are around most of the time and deserve some flak.
As for the doorstep religious peddlers – they’re harmless of course so don’t need any warnings posted.

@Hawkman – I was actually confusing you with Biggles – apologies. For some reason I assumed your knowledge of aircraft and love of all things winged came from your WWI exploits. :-)
Funnily enough when I was knee-high to a pigeon our neighbouring small-holding was occupied by a family of East German refugees who had three sons and I remember trying to beat up the youngest, Wolfgang, after arguing whose dad was the best soldier. I reckoned mine was because he won the war. Wolfie thrashed me, of course, but we became great friends.

Thanks for all your comments.

H

**Haunted** · 01-13-2012, 02:18 AM

Hill, this is a riot. I was doubled over laughing and almost rolled off the Empire State Building.

This FAQs couldn't come soon enough. I was wearing a uniform the whole time, I didn't know! Question: will we get banned for PWN? (Posting While Naked)

I confess I have had a few bouts of CPS. They released me after performing a lobotomy. So if you find me scattered brain, now you know why.

**hillwalker** · 01-13-2012, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by Haunted

Question: will we get banned for PWN? (Posting While Naked)

You probably need to check with the Moderators - or failing that post a few pix in your album and let's hold a poll!

H

**PoeticPassions** · 01-13-2012, 08:50 AM

Quite clever, Hillwalker. If only everyone on here had a sense of humor... well, actually it wouldn't be as interesting. I like the weirdos as well, with the ultra-confusing posts.