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Title: A Modern Major General
Post by: Steve J on 12 August 2014, 07:27:48 AM
I,ve just noticed that I am now a Major General, so drinks are on me at the officers club this evening :). Full dress uniform required ;)
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 12 August 2014, 07:46:33 AM
Congrats Steve. :-bd

Full dress uniform ?.....Jeans and a sweatshirt then ?
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 12 August 2014, 07:50:49 AM
A fine rank for a fine officer, sir! Now say something about a necessary new range.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Leman on 12 August 2014, 07:51:42 AM
Well done that man.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Hertsblue on 12 August 2014, 08:56:50 AM
Does this mean you've been posted? Unlike my order, that is....

Congrats, Steve.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Ithoriel on 12 August 2014, 09:13:52 AM
Had to go find a thread I'd posted in (not difficult!) to see what rank I was.

Apparently I'm now a Brigadier. Assuming that kicks in at 1500 I've been a Brigadier for a week or three, without realising.

So, G&T Major General? Don't mind if I do!

"A Bloody War or a Sickly Season, gentlemen!"
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 12 August 2014, 09:31:51 AM
Int dat

"A short war and a bloody battle"

IanS
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Ithoriel on 12 August 2014, 09:37:24 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 August 2014, 09:31:51 AM
Int dat

"A short war and a bloody battle"

IanS

To be fair, "A Bloody War or a Sickly Season" is the RN version and since the ranks here are Army your version is probably more appropriate.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 12 August 2014, 11:02:09 AM
Congrats to you too, I. :)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 August 2014, 01:42:05 PM
Congratulations Steve,
Mine is a lemonade shandy!  8)
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Orcs on 12 August 2014, 07:18:01 PM
Congratulations Steve

Mines a pint of Absinthe - Need it to cope with Stepdaughter
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: fsn on 12 August 2014, 07:19:42 PM
How many posts to get promoted from a Brigadier?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: fsn on 12 August 2014, 07:20:03 PM
Is it 2500?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: fsn on 12 August 2014, 07:20:27 PM
Alas, no.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 August 2014, 07:34:52 PM
3000 old bean. Pass the port.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: fsn on 12 August 2014, 08:07:57 PM
Ah well. Cheers!

Where's the cheese board gone?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 12 August 2014, 11:35:56 PM
Awww...the cat's eaten it!
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 13 August 2014, 06:31:12 AM
Has he ?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 13 August 2014, 09:34:15 AM
She, sir.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 August 2014, 09:57:53 AM
Well, I move that we DO NOT follow the example what happened to Thomas Hardy's moggy in that case!
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/hardy.htm (http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/hardy.htm) although some sources claim the cat lived to a ripe old age and a pig's heart was buried instead!
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 13 August 2014, 10:38:48 AM
Given Hardy's tendency to view the world through fog-tinted spectacles, he'd have preferred the worst-case scenario.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 13 August 2014, 11:34:03 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 August 2014, 09:34:15 AM
She, sir.

Gouda ?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 13 August 2014, 01:26:49 PM
MMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooo.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Hertsblue on 13 August 2014, 01:59:56 PM
Well, at least she won't have eaten the walnuts - unless she has jaws like a hyena.  :o
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 13 August 2014, 03:04:02 PM
Probably scattered them all over the room....

IanS
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 August 2014, 03:06:18 PM
Oh, I thought those were ammunition for this catapult!
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Hertsblue on 13 August 2014, 03:07:28 PM
That's not a catapult, that's my braces!
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: pierre the shy on 14 August 2014, 12:33:10 AM
Congratulations

I've been playing our itlsu games as a Brigadier but
I'm still a cadet...

Does this mean a possible court martial or is it taken as a temporary acting brevet promotion?

No cats, poets or cheese involved :)
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Leman on 14 August 2014, 06:04:05 AM
I'd go for brevet if you're giving the Hun or Johnny Turk a damn good thrashing.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: paulr on 14 August 2014, 07:52:27 PM
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 14 August 2014, 06:04:05 AM
I'd go for brevet if you're giving the Hun or Johnny Turk a damn good thrashing.

Peter certainly helped give the Hun a damn good thrashing in our last game  ;)

Shame he was commanding them at the time  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: pierre the shy on 14 August 2014, 09:17:30 PM
Only cause those scwinhund Englander decided to
hide in the woods rather than fight in the open . That. sector
was not under my control  either ;)
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Hertsblue on 15 August 2014, 08:31:23 AM
Ah, but the buck stops at the top....  :D
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: nikharwood on 15 August 2014, 03:55:58 PM
Congrats, Steve  8)

After the week I've had, mine's a case of Scotch. Knock the top off & close the door on the way out...
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 August 2014, 04:12:40 PM
Call t'amblance now shouls we's

ianS
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: FierceKitty on 16 August 2014, 02:13:27 AM
Wossha ambulalansh thingy?
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 16 August 2014, 06:49:25 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 August 2014, 02:13:27 AM
Wossha ambulalansh thingy?

Itsh...Itsha..You know.....White van thingy...Blue litsh....Goesh....ner, ner, something.....Lives at that building that mendsh peepul.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Leman on 16 August 2014, 06:52:34 AM
......however, at the time, I was very,very, drunk.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 16 August 2014, 07:32:43 AM
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 16 August 2014, 06:52:34 AM
......however, at the time, I was very,very, drunk.


or more artistically "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time" - just for Phil.

IanS
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Hertsblue on 16 August 2014, 09:08:32 AM
Quote from: Techno on 16 August 2014, 06:49:25 AM
Itsh...Itsha..You know.....White van thingy...Blue litsh....Goesh....ner, ner, something.....Lives at that building that mendsh peepul.

Must be a long time since you've seen one, Phil. They're all high-visibility yellow nowadays.
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Techno on 16 August 2014, 10:18:38 AM
Ohhhh.....Thosh thinsh with the grrreeen ands yellowsh sheckered wossnames round them.
I wondered what they weresh....Can't remember what they look like in Walesh

Cheersh - Rowley Birkin (Q.C.)
Title: Re: A Modern Major General
Post by: Leon on 16 August 2014, 03:28:49 PM
Good to see more officers joining the ranks, keep the riff-raff in check!