The Never Ending Story

[turboplanner]

.........Raj, who had left his Kenworth at Moree and was flying back to India to become a fighter pilot. There were actually 387 others in blue singlets and shorts, all going home to become fighter pilots and there were Kenworths parked up the full length of the Newell and Bruce Highways.

 

And that's not all; all the Roadhouses that served the munchy curry that gave you the runs on a long trips, leading to aboriginal site names being replaced by names like "Whiteass Pass" were gone to fight in the Indian Army.

 

"Walruss Team 6" had been carefully selected, so Cappy and Turbo could be Joint 3 Star Generals, not required on the front line, and The Observation Officer was bull who given a weird looking grey thing and a pair of Chinese binoculars. bull was a natural of course because you only had to look at the dilapidated aircraft he flew to know he could keep anything flying. Sergeant CT was in charge of the Snipers, and RSM One Track was in charge of logistics, transport and purchasing.

 

As WT6 left Australia ..........

Edited Wednesday at 11:36 PM by turboplanner

[Captain]

21 hours ago, turboplanner said:

As WT6 left Australia ........

...... they opened a few boxes in the back of the Herc and realised the dodgy quality of the vehicle spares and the cheap food, all of which were one day off their expiry date ..... including the oysters.

 

And there was sand in all of the boxes, so the RSM was called to the office beside the dunny in the Herc, to .......

[turboplanner]

.....have the equivalent of a Telephone Box comnversation. This was difficult because the civvy OT had been so reliable. Could it be that he had been stitched up?, Could it be that he loaders had filled the boxes with the easily recognisable Kalgoolie sand? Or Could OT have been the victim of fowl play?

As Turbo and Cappt locked OT in the Dunny they both agreed this wasn't like the Khyber which was an ANZAC operation where NZ Bob supplied stores like clockwork, but.........

[onetrack]

.....this time there had been an abject failure in procurement. However as the telephone box conversation proceeded, it was revealed from the box labels, that OT had outsourced the supplies procurement to a little-known company in Kapooka, curiously titled, "Cappys All You Can Eat Pte" - a company with its main office in Singapore, and sourcing its products from a wide range of el-cheapo, dubious street food suppliers based in China. Some of the boxes still had Chinese labelling, such as "Happy Treasure Golden Time Chinese Bao Buns" - all dated pre-COVID.

 

"I can't believe this!" cried Turbo to Cappy. OT was obviously relying on you supplying good tucker with your contract, and you've sub-let the supply to a bunch of street food hawkers in Shenzheng!!"

"What do you think this is going to do to the troops morale, when we get to the Khyber and open the boxes and find this rubbish?"

 

"Well", said Cappy, "I was hoping I was going to be far away when that happened, so I couldn't.................

[bull]

On 08/05/2025 at 9:33 AM, turboplanner said:

.........Raj, who had left his Kenworth at Moree and was flying back to India to become a fighter pilot. There were actually 387 others in blue singlets and shorts, all going home to become fighter pilots and there were Kenworths parked up the full length of the Newell and Bruce Highways.

 

And that's not all; all the Roadhouses that served the munchy curry that gave you the runs on a long trips, leading to aboriginal site names being replaced by names like "Whiteass Pass" were gone to fight in the Indian Army.

 

"Walruss Team 6" had been carefully selected, so Cappy and Turbo could be Joint 3 Star Generals, not required on the front line, and The Observation Officer was bull who given a weird looking grey thing and a pair of Chinese binoculars. bull was a natural of course because you only had to look at the dilapidated aircraft he flew to know he could keep anything flying. Sergeant CT was in charge of the Snipers, and RSM One Track was in charge of logistics, transport and purchasing.

 

As WT6 left Australia ..........

......in a mahindra G8 airvan [long over due avref] and hugged the coast as they flew into the heart of the dragon. Now not everyone knows but WT6 had been trained to do  a very ...............................

Edited 20 hours ago by bull

[onetrack]

Dear NES'ers, it has come to our attention that some contributors to the NES fail to refresh their web browser, and pick up posts from a week ago, to add their contributions, thus leading to much disconnection and confusion in the story thread.

If this continues to happen, the Moderators need to seriously consider whether those offenders should be sent to an NES re-education camp - or at the very least, sent to a computer training authority to bring them up to speed from 1986 and MS-DOS. This is an issue that demands serious action. Thank you.

[Captain]

16 hours ago, onetrack said:

Dear NES'ers, it has come to our attention that some contributors to the NES fail to refresh their web browser, and pick up posts from a week ago, to add their contributions, thus leading to much disconnection and confusion in the story thread.

If this continues to happen, the Moderators need to seriously consider whether those offenders should be sent to an NES re-education camp - or at the very least, sent to a computer training authority to bring them up to speed from 1986 and MS-DOS. This is an issue that demands serious action. Thank you.

Oh, I knooowww Onesie, I knooowww.

Aren't they terrible?

Something has to be done, and as one of the most active and conservative of this site's Moderratti, rest assured that I will get it sorted.

Those slack "contributors" will feel like the Houthi Rebels while having their Easter baked dinner, when about 1500 missions were about to be flown (avref) against them.

Edited 1 hour ago by Captain

[Captain]

On 17/02/2008 at 2:59 PM, Admin said:

He looked out and saw that the aircraft wasn't actually approaching but was at full throttle...was it moving he thought to himself...he couldn't decide and then suddenly saw that someone had placed on his airstrip a...

 

 

..... long grey ....

Edited 5 minutes ago by Captain

[Captain]

18 hours ago, onetrack said:

Dear NES'ers, it has come to our attention that some contributors to the NES fail to refresh their web browser, and pick up posts from a week ago, to add their contributions, thus leading to much disconnection and confusion in the story thread.

If this continues to happen, the Moderators need to seriously consider whether those offenders should be sent to an NES re-education camp - or at the very least, sent to a computer training authority to bring them up to speed from 1986 and MS-DOS. This is an issue that demands serious action. Thank you.

I support the Singular Root completely on this.