When I was in The Met, I worked at several visits by the good lady Princess Anne. Apparently, she sometimes asked the paid workers their names etc. So I was always placed far far away so that she wouldn't get to speak to me.
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That wasn’t because of your name though
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Don't worry, I had a client in the late eighties who would cend me to the project with the biggest security risk whenever the CEO came to visit. I had apparently got drunk one night and mooned him when he told me to behave.
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I know where you live & what car you drive. Oh, and have you seen the FB about your local werewolf that I copied you to? That's coming your way, that is. Soon.
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Actually it was, well she had heard his name and Gaynors entwined. So they ensured he was otherwise occupied, not mucking out the stables for once.
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I met her when doing work for British Steel in the early 90s. They had just released a range of "Wrinkly tin" construction products for the agricultural community and, for some unknown reason, asked her to launch it. When shown the colour palette that farmers could choose from when designing their barns etc, she remarked: "Well, that shit brown right there will really please my big brother!"
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Another Princess Anne anecdote - my boss at BAe was ex-Life Guards and was mucking out at the Hyde Park Barracks one day when he heard what he assumed was one of the younger lads swearing mightily. Aware that civilian visitors were passing to and fro, he gave the time-honoured "Oi! Mind your fuckin' language!" response only to discover it was herself. Soon after, he was transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards where he ended up commanding a tank filled with what he told me were "the only actual Irishmen in the entire regiment".FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:58 pm So they ensured he was otherwise occupied, not mucking out the stables for once.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Was that one of the Shotton Colorcoat products ?BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:00 pm I met her when doing work for British Steel in the early 90s. They had just released a range of "Wrinkly tin" construction products for the agricultural community and, for some unknown reason, asked her to launch it. When shown the colour palette that farmers could choose from when designing their barns etc, she remarked: "Well, that shit brown right there will really please my big brother!"
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Does anyone have recommendations for 28mm Medieval Polish, Rus or similar to take on my Mongols?
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If you can bear plastic Fireforge are pretty good.
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