poultry warning device...

[gt102]

what is a "poultry warning device"?

and why would an RCR member be offended if "Holy crap, when was the last time you polished your poultry warning device?" was said?

I was just wondering for the past few days :-\

 

[McG]

There is a common bastardised expansion of the RCR acronym with the "C" being for "Chicken".

 

[Korus]

hee hee.. this is going to be funny.  ;D

 

[Edward Campbell]

Oh well, fools rush in, etc ...

The alleged incident is said to have involved a soldier from A Company of 1RCR who, so it is said, relieved his sexual frustrations â “ due to too long a time in the company of men, only â “ on a chicken.   There are various versions: Korea, Fort Lewis, etc ... live chicken, plucked chicken (the 'pl' is important!) and so on.

Suffice to say that call-sign 19 (not just in 1RCR, either), every now and again, has the silhouette of a rooster sewn on the company pennant as a means of trying to turn the inevitable foul (and fowl related) nickname to advantage. (I seeem to recall Art Hunter doing that when he was OC A in 2RCR, way back in the '60s, and was getting his company's teams ready for Prix LeClerc, Nimejen and so on. Some colonels object, others take it in the right spirit.)

 

[Steel Badger]

There is of course a rumour that an alleged incident took place with the Mascot (read Goat) of the RCASC in the 50's

While an Officer-instructor in Borden, my father was told about an alleged incident where by a private soldier from the RCR was caught rogering the RCASC mascot.......

talk about sticking it to the remfs!!!

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDY!

 

[aesop081]

DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDY!

Same stories go around about the  R22r mascot.......

When i was growing up it was :

RCR : Run Chicken Run / Rocking Chair Rangers / Chicken F****rs
PPCLI : Piss Pot Cleaners and Latrines Inspectors / People Protected by Canadian Little Idiots

But the again i was raised by a vandoo.........

 

[George Wallace]

I understand that a certain MCpl, a real joker, taught all his Recruit Crse, most of whom were going RCR, that the Col of the Regiment was Col Saunders.  I guess the CO of the Regiment paid the Crse a 'visit' and asked a couple if they knew who the Col of the Regt was and was not at all impressed with the answers he got.

GW

 

[aesop081]

I understand that a certain MCpl, a real joker, taught all his Recruit Crse, most of whom were going RCR, that the Col of the Regiment was Col Saunders.   I guess the CO of the Regiment paid the Crse a 'visit' and asked a couple if they knew who the Col of the Regt was and was not at all impressed with the answers he got.

GW

I guess he wouldn't............no sense of humour i guess...

 

[48Highlander]

Only derigatory expansion of PPCLI I ever heard was Penis Pumpin' Cock Lovin' Idiots.

I really like the PPCLI, but after hearing that, every time I see their cap badge, that's what I think of

 

[George Wallace]

Please Protect Canada's Little Indians was the version I heard.  Or was it Idiots.  Picklies were very touchy about anything you called them.

Bambis don't take Musslehead or Zipperhead as insults.

GW

 

[Steel Badger]

Ping Pong Champions of Long Island?


Or Like my old regiment the G&SF

Ground Hog and Squirrel ^%&*ers......
(Praise the Lord, and pass the gun tape.)

 

[bossi]

When Col Saunders of KFC fame passed away, somebody was actually tricked into lowering the base flag to half staff ...

And then there was the story from Germany:  When the PPCLI were doing their recce prior to replacing the RCR, some of their recce party were participating on an exercise.  An RCR M113 going down a steep hill picked up too much momentum ... with the result that it couldn't negotiate the bend in the road at the bottom and went crashing through a fence ... and demolished a chicken coop - feathers were sent flying skyward in a plume ...

Then, on the radio net, an "unknown" callsign (but probably the PPCLI observers): 

"The legend lives on ..."