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Bobw
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 Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: The Seahawk has landed! |
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Hi!
Just had a look in the HMS Seahawk Volunteer Band site, only to find it full of damned foreigners! Some of them at first appeared to be extracting the wee-wee from yours truly (Changing march titles to include the word Bob!) so I thought I would join up and introduce myself.
As you have guessed my name is Bob and I carry the Bass Trombone (and occasionally Eb Bass) in the band at RNAS Culdrose. I say 'carry' as some of you more gifted musicians out there may object if I said 'play'! You can usually pick me out of the crowd as, despite being in a Naval band for 16 years I have always worn an RAF uniform! Is this a record? (I also have a 12" black plastic disk with a small hole in the middle. Is that a record too?)
I left the RAF in 1990 having played for 3 years in the volunteer band at RAF Kinloss and on starting work at Culdrose I joined the band here, as well as a local village brass band. I therefore didn't have many free evenings to spend at home with the wife Gillian, so, in a case of 'if you can't beat them join them' she had cornet lessons (from Nick Chapman, no less!) and now is a staunch member of the band too (and also Bandy's unofficial PA).
We are both grizzled veterans of Cologne trips. I have done 8, 5 of them carrying a Bass! Is that butch or what?! Looking forward to going again in February.
Greetings to all the other Volunteers out there.
See you in the counter-march!
Bob |
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Location: Portsmouth
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: |
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At last! A Seahwaker arrives and about time.
Welcome Bob and we really don't mind what rigs you wear. You'll have to get some ofthe others in here to give you a hand with the cleaning, the dust has accumilated a bit due to the lights being off for so long. Don't be a stranger around here (we already have enough strange ones!)
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Local Warrant Officer 1
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Location: Pompey (Nelson Band)
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Hi Bob! It's always good to see another Vollie on here!
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lesbryan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:48 am Post subject: |
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hi there BOB welcome||   
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ZedHorn
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Joined: 29 Nov 2005
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Location: Brizol
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: hi bob |
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welcome Bob....
here's another place that we can waste hours of time posting stuff.. great innit... say hi to all the seahawkers for me.. trust you're all still singing strange songs about Madame Trelawny or whoever..
SYOTCM.. zed
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Aaron Aardvark
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A real BOB in shitehawk wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh roflmao....oooh now i needed a laugh.
Welcome BOB wahhhhhhhhh  .................please come back...........wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pmpl. |
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MrJpig
Major DOM
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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Location: THE LAND OF JUMPIGS
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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LO BOB....is your mate weeble about?? mmmmmm...
Welcome to the Madhouse 
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lesbryan
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You like pieeeeeeee BOB  
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RAB
Light Division Bulge Major
Joined: 09 Oct 2005
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Location: Perthshire....Playing in the lifts...
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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...Lo Bob...Welcome matey.. 
All the best,
BOB......
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greenfairy
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Joined: 19 Feb 2006
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Location: getting ever closer to that padded cell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Bob!
Welcome to the nuthouse - if I were you I'd run away while you still can!!!
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bootybandy
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Location: A nice wee town on the Solent, just biding my time.
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I see the Sehawk has landed, but it's a bit wide of the runway..........
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Bobw
In Basic Training
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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Location: Seahawk
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| bootybandy wrote: | | I see the Sehawk has landed, but it's a bit wide of the runway.......... |
Naaaah! Runways are easy - they are very long, quite wide and don't move. Now, putting a Merlin down on the back of a Type 23 Frigate in a sea state 4 is tricky! I crashed 3 times yesterday before getting all the wheels on the deck. I will have to practice a bit more.
By the way, all you serving members out there - If you are ever in a chopper over Baghdad and the pilot gets taken out by a sniper, get Lumpy Nolan to take over the controls rather then Dave Prentice. Although he has brilliant hand-eye coordination with a drumkit, give him a cyclic and a collective and he is buggered! 
At least with Lumpy in charge you should be able to limp away from the crash! |
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Hornblower
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Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Hey Bob!!!
Welcome to the forum and don't forget to come back often enough to slag off the Aardvark - he loves it.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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FFoglamp
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Joined: 09 Oct 2005
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Location: The Red and White end of Hampshire
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Lo Bob, welcome to the forum. Sorry about squatting in Seahawk chat room, but it was a nice empty place to have the odd rave, and some illicit binge posting. Next time I venture near, I'll knock first.
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The BB's
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Location: HMS Collingwood Volunteer Band
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| At last Bob you've found us. See you in Cologne!!!!!! |
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