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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-03-25 17:05
I'm sure they've had more than just the one clarinet go awol.
Always makes me nervous when I've been stop searched at the main gate on leaving Portsmouth Navy base (that's Portsmouth in the UK) - especially when they've asked 'Have you got any MoD property with you?'
Usually it's my own instruments I have with me, but I had been working on several Selmer saxes belonging the RM band so if I said 'Yeah, I've got a couple of SA80s with me' I wonder what the response to that would be?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Dori
Date: 2011-03-25 17:06
Could an effer be considered a dangerous weapon?
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Author: BartHx
Date: 2011-03-25 23:05
I know if I were in battle and reached for my clarinet only to find it had been stolen, I would be furious!
It reminds me of the old, old story about the factory worker who left each day with a wheelbarrow full of straw. The guards very carefully searched the straw, but never found anything hidden in it. After he retired, the worker admitted to the guards that he had been stealing wheelbarrows.
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Author: Baz
Date: 2011-03-26 01:23
t reminds me of the old, old story about the factory worker who left each day with a wheelbarrow full of straw. The guards very carefully searched the straw, but never found anything hidden in it. After he retired, the worker admitted to the guards that he had been stealing wheelbarrows.
This one reminds of the story of a guy in the UK who ran a car park in a town for many years charging cars and coaches to park, all of a sudden he stopped turning up so the council was contacted for a replacement, they had never heard of the guy and did not know about the car-park, work it out for yourself!
Baz
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-03-26 19:06
Well, I guess if you're on the front line and you run out of ammunition you can always through your reeds and clarinet parts at the enemy, or worse, threaten to play it. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-03-26 20:36
It's perfectly obvious. The clarinet is to play. The anchor is to hang from your lower lip to strengthen your embouchure. And the fuselage is a nice, resonant practice room.
Ken Shaw
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2011-03-26 22:11
I swear I didn't do it.
DS
Former Naval officer, former airplane owner/pilot, and current clarinetist
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-03-26 22:19
David Spiegelthal wrote:
> I swear I didn't do it.
I could have sworn I saw an aircraft wheel attached to the peg of your Frankenhorn...
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Ben
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Author: Phurster
Date: 2011-03-26 23:00
Look at the astonished faces when you tell them you have a B45 at home. And that you are working with M15.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2011-03-26 23:36
tictactux wrote:
> David Spiegelthal wrote:
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> > I swear I didn't do it.
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> I could have sworn I saw an aircraft wheel attached to the peg
> of your Frankenhorn...
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And an arrestor hook on your Fiat ...
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Author: RJShaw0
Date: 2011-03-27 01:55
Reading through the whole article, how the hell do you steal "a bridge"?
Also a helicopter rotor????
RJS
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2011-03-28 07:03
I heard the car park guy was at Bristol Zoo. Can anyone corroborate this urban myth?
Thing with the MoD is, how do they know this stuff was actually stolen and not just misplaced? (think the end of Indiana Jones). It's a big organization...
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