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The lapel pin is nice. Nice to see the old jokes about marching style are still going on. The Army and Air Force always laughed at us at Naden years ago.

MUCH better!! So much easier on the tired, old eyes. Hawk

Great story. Next time he should call his cat Fluffy! Hawk

This is terribly Anglican of me, but I like the old one better. This is way too hard on the eyes Hawk

Just adds one more reason why I'm leaving Winnipeg - in fact getting right out of Manitoba - once I get the estate settled and save up enough money for the move. This city spends money like a drunken sailor on shore leave (sorry Navy - but you know what I mean!!), except on what's needed, and...

9-1-1 calls not billed??? I called 9-1-1 for help when my husband had a heart attack. I got billed $450.00 by the City of Winnipeg for ambulance service. Adds insult to injury when you're coping with death of your spouse. Hawk

Absolutely! And that's the reason for the poll! Every time one of them phones me I automatically tell them to put me on their Do Not Call list. I have no time for them! Hawk

I worked for Ipsos-Reid. Their call floor is in downtown Winnipeg. The way the polls work is this. They ask you about your support for the Government's commitment to having the troops in Afghanistan: "a. strongly support, b. support, c. oppose, or d. strongly oppose". If they punch in an "a" or...

I think I've said somewhere in one of these forums that I work for a company that sells, among many other things, guns. Heard at work last week: A customer phoned in to mail order complaining that he'd got an e-mail from us that there was some sort of problem with his gun order. I asked him...

I just watched it too. He was certainly a good sport, and he appears to have learned quite a bit - except the getting there on time thing! Well done, Big Mac! Hawk

Hey - I didn't say I disagreed!! My Dad (WWII Vet) called them Quacks! The ones I met were reserves. The Air Women were WDs, and as they couldn't make much out of WRENS, we got jokes about nests, and arms flapping like wings! All just part of the teasing we put each other through. Some of my...

I don't know . . . when I ran into a bunch of CWAC in the '60's they took GREAT exception to being called Quacks!!! :cdn: Hawk

Stone frigates!! I knew there was another expression, and I was too tired to put it together!  Cement frigate and land locked frigate were expressions we used at Esquimalt in the 1960's. :cdn: Hawk

Used to be called cement frigates or landlocked frigates :cdn: Hawk

Has anyone heard about an incident on the West Coast where a Canadian ship accidentally fired on Port Angeles and took out a cow, shopping cart and clothes line of laundry? Our PO on course told us about it in the late 1960s and I've never been able to find proof. Sounds like an urban legend to...

At East End community center in Brandon, MB when I was 17. We were steadies (how's that for old!!) till I joined the Navy at 18, wrote for awhile, dated some when I was home on leave, and went our separate ways. 17 years later, we re-encountered each other. By that time I had a 2 year old son...

Well, I don't know - I looked up some info on the 1997 flood, and this is really early for break-up, and we did have that big storm the other day. They've already had flooding between Winnipeg and Selkirk, and they're still sandbagging up there. There are houses built on the flood plain in...

My - PM'd you :cdn: Hawk

Hello Joan and June! I remember you both. I knew about Capt Ferguson, but not PO Cotterell. Last I heard of Penny she was married, but didn't know she or Irene were gone. I remember the airforce rec spec, but can't think of her name. either. Others I've found are Linda K (Wren) who teaches in...

Good for her - beats the story about the woman in England who fended off a would-be burglar with her flash camera and a garden gnome!! You want to watch it when you attack Grannie  ;D :cdn: Hawk