Jim R mason
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Malta 1948In 1948 there were 8 bands based in Malta. On one evening with three bands in harbour, we gathered at the watering hole of Tony's Bar in Sliema. At about 2.00 am, a musician, "Rattler" Morgan, was taking the air on Sliema seafront when he felt the need to get rid of some of the copious amount of beer that he had consumed. At that time there was a public toilet on the seafront. His version of what happened next is, that he spotted a very sad and distessed looking Gharry horse and decided that it was having the same bladder problems that he was. He persuaded the horse to accompany him into the "Gents". Whether the horse managed to relieve itself is not on record, but despite the efforts of the Maltese Police, sundry Gharry drivers and some (probably not very helpful) bandsmen the horse could not be persuaded to back out of the building!! The side of the structure had to be demolished to get it out! Fortunately we all sailed the following morning!
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Hornblower
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Now that's what I call taking the ... 
Animals and RM Bandsmen? Who remembers the Ganges pig incident? No bulgers name mentioned at this time, but I do think he had one in the shower? Hmmmmm - I wasn't there, but one of you must have been!
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mahler1
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Indeed I was there for the famous pig incident. He hung it up in the shower on Sunday. On the Monday a dockey came in early to fix the heads, of course we where still in our beds and unaware that he had arrived to fix the problem. The next thing we heard was him shouting, "Theres a ****ing dead body in here!" and with that he ran down the stairs quicker than Linford Codpiece. Well as you can guess the Navy had a field day trying to find out who the culprit was, well he did own up to the crime but, the sad thing is, none of us had any of the pig for scran.
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2nd Clarinet
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Good ol Jim.
Another great story from the king of Dits.
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Nick B
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I seem to remember an incident involving Bulgers and sheep! F Block Deal Circa. 70's 
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Hornblower
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Were the bulgers Welsh Nick? 
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2nd Clarinet
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I remember someone called Stevenson with a bloody big horse on Deal parade ground in 1969.
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Nick B
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| 2nd Clarinet wrote: | | I remember someone called Stevenson with a bloody big horse on Deal parade ground in 1969. |
Yup, remeber that one too Bob. Open order march Thhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! 
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Nick B
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| Hornblower wrote: | | Were the bulgers Welsh Nick? |
Have to be careful here Stu..........I think the sheep was dead (nearly) and was cared for by AB & DL. 
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bootybandy
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That was Frank Wildbore and not a sheep. Lol....
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Bomber
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I think Buster Clark and JC had something to do with the sheep as well.
I heard the story of the pig from the man himself. Now he is the king of the dits.
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sticky blue
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| Hornblower wrote: |
Now that's what I call taking the ...
Animals and RM Bandsmen? Who remembers the Ganges pig incident? No bulgers name mentioned at this time, but I do think he had one in the shower? Hmmmmm - I wasn't there, but one of you must have been! |
I remember the said incident - I was there - I think I may have mentioned the incident elsewhere on this site, but I can't remember (it's an age thing)
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Len
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Great story from Col Jim... it may be of interest to him and others, that Tony's bar is still going strong. it's famous for the being the venue where two PO's drank 46 bottles of "blue " each in one session, and still managed get back on board. They have newspaper stories all over the bar. This was in 1947 or thereabouts. And no i wasn't there.
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lesbryan
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Memories !!!
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Jim R mason
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Len was not there. I was!!
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admin
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Another great dit Col Jim... I'll give a teaser for someone else to complete as ~I don't know the dit, just the keywords:
Camel, Tournament, bandy or bugler, escalator...
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Alan McCarthy
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PIg man got a draft to Stonehouse after his resulting pussers holiday. Every time a bugler fell foul of the big red or blue books, they were sent to Guzz.
Strange place for re-hab!
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