Quote Originally Posted by Hsing-ee View Post
A bloke I worked with at the Medical Research Council in the early 1980s used to take his SMLE No.4 in a case on his Honda 250 to the ranges at Otmoor. I think he might have taken out a noisy, crapping seagull that built a nest on his chimney with it as well. A rural type of fellow.

Still, those were the days that the USAF were storing 200-odd Tomahawk cruise missiles at Greenham, each with a 250-kiloton nuclear warhead. The locals were informed that the massive stockpile of death was an 'Insurance Policy' in a nice friendly leaflet. We had a sense of proportion in those days.
Proportion, yes... tempered by 70,000 mothers who could all do with a good wash, joining hands from Greenham to Aldermaston (for God's sake, how embarrassing!), and spouting idioms like "YOU CAN'T HUG YOUR CHILDREN WITH NUCLEAR ARMS!!".

Is that an idiom?

Still, I didn't give a toss. I was busy grooving to 'Dead or Alive' with my massive permed hair, Johnson's boots, and a diamante badge on my shirt, trying to pull birds.

Anyhoo, where have you been for months, Al?