Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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Strong words coming from a countrythat once tried to make fighter planes out of cardboard.
(, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 10:15, 2 replies)
One of the my favourite WWII storieswas about the Germans constructing a mock airfield out of wood - wooden planes, tankers, all that sort of thing. The plan was to lure the RAF into dropping their bombs on it instead of onto a real airfield.
The next day a lone RAF bomber flew over the airfield, dropping a single bomb - made of wood. Brilliant.
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Thatis absolutely brilliant.
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Nearly as good as the disinformation fed to them about our feeding pilots carrots to see in the dark, when we wanted to hide the fact we had developed radar.
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disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 16 Mar 2011, 14:52,
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My favourite has to be...The rubber sheaths used to protect gun barrels.
Marked up as
"Condom- Size medium"
Cock propaganda.
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Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 15:10,
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Could be worse.They could have tried to make aircraft carriers out of cold, soggy sawdust...
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