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Jun 6th, 2020, 12:19 | #1201 | |
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Between you and John you've covered the other points i was going to make about depreciation, the "green" credentials of running older cars and so on.
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Eek; I wasn't intending you to jeopardise our national security, Alan! Sorry!! J.
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I've had that a few times lately, seems to go through phases when that happens then suddenly all is well again and it gets forgotten about. Happens mostly on PMs i've found, there's a thread about it somewhere.
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Next time it does it, save a copy of what you were going to post in Notepad or similar and then post it later when the forum is working properly again. That's what i do.
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No matter, I should have plenty of time tomorrow (Sunday) so I’ll sit down and recount the story again :-) Alan |
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For got to say, you won't know it's playing up until you get the "Error 403" - use the back button in your browser to get back to the page where you've typed everything so you can save it.
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The Royal Barge
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Second attempt at explaining the derivation of the 'Royal Barge' name: During a trip to Afghanistan, whilst serving in the military, I was working in a US national HQ as a NATO liaison officer. In the military a national HQ (and particularly an American one) can react so much quicker than a coalition, just because it only has one lot of politicians to ask for guidance, rather than the 30odd that NATO had involved in the campaign. Whenever the Americans asked NATO for a decision it had to go back to the multinational military (and sometimes political) setups for an answer - which could take weeks or months. The Americans knew this of course, and so nicknamed NATO the 'Royal Barge' because it changed course so slowly - this was meant in a good natured and humorous way - they even commissioned a cartoon that hung on the ops room wall (which I seem to remember featured me in some capacity) to commemorate the Royal Barge's involvement in some scheme or another. That was some years ago; when I bought the 244 the 'Royal Barge' seemed like an apposite name because it changed direction so slowly compared with our Porsche - and even our Skoda Superb diesel estate. The Royal Barge name has stuck - it reminds me of a good tour: working with some exceptional people and contributing a tiny bit to making the world a slightly better place - it suits the 244 as well. So there we have it - I like the Royal Barge :-) Stay safe, Alan Last edited by Othen; Jun 7th, 2020 at 06:09. Reason: Spelling error. |
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