Dreadnought HolidayPermit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.
"You lad!"
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
Geoff đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż@DreadShips I'm hearing that in the voices of Thompkinson's Schooldays.
"You boy, what are you making?"
"Scale model icebreaker sir!"
"On what scale?"
"1:1 sir!"
"Then it's not a model, is it? It's an icebreaker. Melt it down at once."
"Yes sir."
"And don't let me catch you doing it again. Silly boy..."
â Fish Id Wardrobe@_thegeoff @DreadShips I don't understand why Ripping Yarns is all but forgotten. A genuine masterpiece.
Phil Haigh
David Cantrell đ@fishidwardrobe @_thegeoff @DreadShips it was recently repeated, and all but one episode (Across the Andes by Frog) was on iplayer, but only for a month. Next time it's repeated it will be at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ls8p/episodes/guide
