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Oh-no!!! We're back to talking s**t on the board!
LOL!!! :oP
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:33)
Ooh, yes indeed.
I suppose the -- clingfilm has really hit the fan now, eh?
>>By ortlieb (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:38)
I don't want to picture that clingfilm hitting the fan either Ortie - that's just postponed dirt
>>By Lynn (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:43)
Gosh guys it's only monday and we're allready on them "tulips" here.
Bad way to start the week.
Hey there we're on page 130, well Mr. Mcnab this is all your fault!
"click-click!"
"what was that him answering me???"
>>By borisette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:44)
Orty and Lynn,... the fan,.... what fan... the PenyFan????
>>By borisette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:49)
No! HE wasn't answering you, Borisette... that "click-click" is the fan flapping around all that tangled clingfilm...
Uh-oh! Now I'm flapping! It's oscillating on High!!!
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:53)
You fan, me fan, everybody fan here Borisette
>>By Lynn (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 15:57)
Hey Lynn did you see Orty's new pic???
BULLIES must have given him some inspiration, and he's got his secret thing, the one that glows.
Ok this is getting silly I'm off now , this is the McNab board so let's talk Mcnab!
>>By borisette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 16:01)
It's never too late to put your mouths where your boots seem to be most of the time.
http://www.skiclub.co.uk/skiclub/
noticeboard/item.asp?intItemID=1888
The "in't it" is a good way of doing something regular and watching everybody else start up doing the same, like if you pick up a cup and drink the person talking to you does the same. Have you noticed that? Whatever you do they mimic, and we men got a habit of picking our noses and you can bet the next man will do same.
I can talk all proper but if I do that I shall have my officer hat on and you in't in favour of officers. NCO Army from Lance Corp to Warrent Officer non commissioned ranks. I won't go into Naval lower ranks because it might come across as rude. Don't suppose you've heard of the Navy Lark? Old radio series.
Lynn, got to say at last someone remembered why you're all here. Poor McNab will be checking that mirror out wondering if he's lost it, what do you reckon he would come here as? Wouldn't use his psuedonym would he? You wouldn't believe it was him if he said so and I reckon he'd come as a woman so the men wouldn't feel inadequate seeing as you women would go all gooey.
>>By readit (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 16:24)
What about a game of spot McNab?
Officer hat on now. Check your private mail, sort the facts from fiction, and report back with findings. I would say the old-timers have been around long enough to sort wheat from chaff and there's enough intel here to pick the narcissitic little bugger if he's skulking behind a skirt. Scotsman he isn't so forget looking up kilts!
>>By readit (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 16:31)
Readit: "You wouldn't believe it was him if he said so"
Maybe I will, maybe I did.
>>By Lynn (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 17:00)
Spot Mcnab :
Just checked my email , and this is what I found:
- LowRateAdvisors -Home owners get cash
out!
-LowestPriceSmokes - Bargain Marlboros and
more,.. free shipping
-PayDayRightAWay - Get 500 transfered to
your account
- Miracle - ZeroBalance Your
CreditCards
_ Suzy - I got bigger boobs
Now tell me where does McNab hide, so I can go all goooey ????
>>By borisette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 17:03)
Uhm... maybe is there a clue in the last email, Borisette... I mean, it is "Suzy"... ;o)
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 17:06)
Ohman! I'm in the mood for perverse laughs today:
"we men got a habit of picking our noses and you can bet the next man will do same"
Well, duh!!! Think you readit guys are making that very apparent -- what with you sharing the same orange hat and all. Now quit flickin' those boogers, will ya!?! Yuck!
"I reckon he'd come as a woman so the men wouldn't feel inadequate"
Well, then I'd say that was downright nice of him to be so considerate of you, readit! Maybe it's something in your posts, tho, seeing as you seem a bit preoccupied with male adequacy issues...
"there's enough intel here..."
LOL! Now this has to be a huge Freudian... and a first!!!! You can't possibly be saying there's actually "intelligence" here, can you? And yes, double entendre intended!
HAHAHA!!!
Fanx for the laughs, boys! (and I'm using that term loosely!)... :o)
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 17:44)
Looks like AM is targeting a younger audience. Wonder what this means for Nick Stone?
"BRAVO YOUNG BLOOD
Andy McNab, who has made a fortune writing thrillers since he left Britain's Special Air Service, is hauling in another million-plus with a contract for six adventures for teenagers. A 17-year-old boy will be the hero of the series, appropriately called Young Blood. A by-product of the project will be three one-hour television dramas. McNab, best known for Bravo Two Zero, says he will be taking advice from his daughter, Kate, 16.
She's a Harry Potter fan, his real enemy this literary battle."
-Taken from The Weekend Australian (January 17, 2004 Saturday NSW Country Edition)
>>By Majorette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 19:24)
Andy's lagging behind Chris Ryan though. CR has quite a few
(don't know how many... 4-5?) teenager books out now. Alpha Force, isn't it ?
And he's had his own TV-show up and running for some time (Ultimate Force), where he actually played a guest-role.
Wonder if Chris and Andy call each other up now and then to compare their bank-accounts..... they're laughing all the way to the bank anyways, that's for damn sure!
>>By ortlieb (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 19:56)
Guess Young Blood will be based on McNab's personal experiences as a boy soldier. Wonder if the character will be married by the age of 18???
>>By Majorette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 20:49)
Orange Hat? Explain!! Not with you on this ref.
McNab's teen book is about a 17 yr boy and he's taking advice from daughter? Is he serious? Just lost all faith in the guy.
A girl know what a boy is thinking and saying as she walks away arse swaying? Bad enough in my youth and it don't bear thinking about what boys say these days. My mates son can shock us on occasion with unrecognisable words the graphic detail follow up sort off this planet.
So which one of you or more is looking to sign up for SAS are good enough?
>>By readit (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 20:56)
No Freudian slip. If you read him read all his books you'd hear his voice kind of unique. Has a way of saying and writing things that stand out like beacons.
On second thoughts he'd come as the idiot forgetful confused one and pull every pisser going and suck them in like a vaccum cleaner. Same way he pulls women when he isn't instructing men in skirts .Funny ha ha borisette but hey you is getting closer to McNab than the rest here. Excellent work keep at it.
>>By readit (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 21:10)
Am I more interesting than McNab because I am getting a bit self conscious over here. All this attention in my direction. I've tried getting you all talking about his books but you all keep coming full circle back for another side swipe at me. This new for me. I'm used to girls giving me the eye and then looking none too sure if they've bitten off more than they can chew between them. Guess it must be something to do with the ski gear . Sexy so I've been told!
>>By readit (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 21:17)
Readit-
That loud thud you just heard was the sound of me falling out of my chair laughing. Sexy, eh? You didn't mention that before. Well then, let's have a look at you. Send your pic our way and we'll give you an honest evaluation.
Ski gear definitely optional!
>>By Majorette (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 21:50)
ok, putting on my false lashes again, don't know if I can look better, but I look better. Eyes are all on you Readit.... High expectations now...
>>By Lynn (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 22:54)
well with all the classics turning up in 'jr.' versions (the young indiana jones, young mcgyver etc), no wonder AM decided to get in on the share...
i actually asked last monday, if anyone had read ratcliffes eots or ashers shoot to kill/trb20 and also horsfalls fighting scar(r)ed, but it apparently didn't strike a chord at that time.. a week has now passed, and i've downed 3 books out of the four i got, and if anyone wants to discuss them, i'll be glad to throw in my tuppence.
i have to admit, that the b20 puzzle got even more confusing after 'the real b20', and i assume that only 5 ppl + god will only ever know what REALLY happened. then would be the ones present at the debriefing. for us readers, it will be like putting a puzzle together upside down, and then checking if you were even close to what the picture should have looked like.
i wanted to believe AM, since his writing was the first that i got across, therefore he must have been telling the truth (little naive young me), and a huge, worldwide conspiracy had been set up, but like asher said, iraqis would have had very little to gain by lying to him.
on the other hand (this is one reason scientists arms should be chopped off, so that they can't say 'on the other hand'), saddam's regime was still quite active at the time of asher's visit, and didn't break up until last year. Uday was still very powerful at that time, and might have fooled asher and the bbc with great skill.
damn, whatever... i'll just continue being paranoid about these things myself, and reconstructing my own puzzle. like it's been said, guess we'll have to wait for s5.
i've found 2 interresting coincidences. the allied bombings of iraq started on the same day i started school in england, and all eight members of b20 were very much in the field on my birthday.
flame at will (i'm not will)
>>By trident (Monday, 19 Jan 2004 23:40)
re: majorette, last thursday... S A S vs. sass
"The term SAS was never used in Hereford, and to turn it into one sound - 'sass' - was sacrilege. It was referred to as 'The Regiment' by anyone who had actually been a part of it."
-Robin Horsfall, "fighting scared", chapter 8, pp.92
>>By trident (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 08:37)
TRidy : never trust an arab (don't want to sound racist here), but I've worked with these people for one year and whatever they always told me I had to check it out for myself if it was true or not, if it was done or not. I don't thinkwe'll ever know the truth about B20 not even by reading S5, everybody will have his own version of the facts, as things are seen from different angles and experienced in different ways. One is tougher emotional another can be more physically resistant and so on....
Andyway : when and how did AM become a Sergeant!
Don't know if I'll be interested in reading his teenbooks and by the way do teens nowadays still read, thought they'd be all computer-freaks, or watching MTV.
REadit : ski-outfit, naaah walking with those ski-boots, looks a bit clumbsy to me.
Give me a guy with worn - out jeans and nude torse (without the beer-belly offcourse)! But I guess that's a bit too cold to ski with.
>>By borisette (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 10:07)
Oooh, Research! ...kinda limited tho... :o(
AM had reached the rank of Infantry Sergeant when he passed Winter Selection in 1984:
"... After Selection we lost our rank but kept the same pay since we hadn't qualified yet as Special Forces soldiers. I became a trooper but was still receiving a sergeant's infantry pay, which was less than a trooper earned in the Special Air Service. To qualify for SF pay, I would have to get a patrol skill—either signals, demolitions, medical, or a language. ..."
As of July 1986, when AM was in Belize with F Troop, he had not yet reached the rank of regimental corporal:
"... F Troop was part of a garrison and all the bullshit that that entailed. Our hut was part of the sergeants' mess, but unless we were a Regiment corporal or above, we couldn't use it, even though we were still expected to pay the monthly fee the mess claimed. The team was therefore split into two groups, those who could go in the mess and those who couldn’t, and I hadn’t joined the Regiment for that sort of bullshit. Tiny was with us for three weeks, filling in space between changeovers. Being a regimental corporal, he could have gone in the sergeants’ mess but chose to come down to the cookhouse..."
But beyond that point in time, AM does not mention his rank again in either IA or B20...
Okay, so that was the serious bit. But speaking of IA, Belize, and cooking:
“It was incredibly hot this particular night, and as soon as we got in, we took our clothes off and hung around in our skiddies and flip-flops. My head was spinning. Everybody was sitting on the beds honking about all and sundry, and we finally decided to have a scoff.
I got the hexy burner out on the step and frying up bits of Spam. There was stuff strewn all over the place because everybody was pissed, and by now even the skiddies had come off.
Unfortunately, just as our barbecue party was in full swing, all the officers and their wives started to come out of the mess. The ruperts and an instant monk on because there were these naked squaddies lying on the grass in star shapes, farting and shouting at each other, giggling, pissed, and falling over. Spam was flying everywhere, and in places the grass was on fire. ..."
That's definitely on the list of favourites! LOL!!!! :oD
>>By am-i-binned (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 13:02)
(ooops, some typos... but you know that story! hahaha!)
>>By am-i-binned (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 13:05)
Amnesia?
"I've mentioned ol' Ratty earlier!! Seems like I'm not the only one around here with random lapses of amnesia... ;)"
I know you did, that's why I said it!!! I knew you'd answer my question ta mate.
>>By Bethan (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 13:31)
I'm not sure about these teen books. Not unless he undergoes a complete writing change - no f*** words allowed! Will it be SAS tradecraft diluted down?
>>By Bethan (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 13:38)
Thanks AIB for the info! Guess he remained a sergeant till he came out of the SF then.
What's the highest rank in the SAS?
Just checked my email again, to see any Mcnabbies, and yeah found something strange indeed.
- Law Enforcement Career - Earn a criminal Justice DEgree online (hmmmmm.....)
- Meet Soulmate - Click here to see photos of your potent...... (haven't checked yet)
- Romance Pros - Let us match you with a REAL Person (now what the ****! haven't checked it yet)
- Trimlife : Pilates the best workout accelerated
(hey isn't his current wife a Pilates teacher? Is he trying to commercialise her too now)
>>By borisette (Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004 14:04)
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