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Title: So Romantic! Post by: Signe on February 09, 2005, 06:58:08 AM Quote Army pilot rap over pizza flight A lieutenant has been disciplined after using an Army helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend. The incident on 25 January saw the unnamed officer divert from a routine training flight over Stanford, Norfolk, to take the fast food. The Ministry of Defence refused to name the officer, from 659 Squadron, or divulge how he was punished. A spokesman said: "The chain of command doesn't condone these sorts of actions. The individuals have been disciplined." He added: "During a routine low-level training sortie, somebody decided it would be an opportunity to use it for a delivery." The extra cost caused by the diversion is not known. The pizza was understood to have been delivered to a female officer cadet at an Army range at Thetford, Norfolk. The Ministry of Defence spokesman did not confirm what toppings were on the pizza. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4245723.stm Published: 2005/02/08 09:31:01 GMT Now, that's love! Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: HaemishM on February 09, 2005, 07:54:19 AM Did it arrive in 30 minutes or less?
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Kenrick on February 09, 2005, 08:06:30 AM Did they get the toppings right?
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Paelos on February 09, 2005, 08:07:40 AM Did they get the toppings right? My guess is extra sausage. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Signe on February 09, 2005, 08:08:40 AM There is nothing even you can do, Haemish, to take the romance out of this story. It brought tears to my eyes. Really, it did. You can ask Righ as he is the one who read it to me. I suppose I can expect pizza for Valentine's Day. With any luck, he'll deliver it in a brand new sportscar.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Joe on February 09, 2005, 08:23:36 AM Only if its paid for by the taxpayers.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: HaemishM on February 09, 2005, 09:10:02 AM I hope he was playing "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" on the copter's loudspeakers as he delivered it.
In a white uniform. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Nazrat on February 09, 2005, 09:38:25 AM I hope he was playing "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" on the copter's loudspeakers as he delivered it. In a white uniform. Unfortunately, the pilot played the only appropriate music to play while riding in a helicopter: Ride of the Valkyries as shown in Apocalypse Now. So, the mood was ruined as he strafed the female cadets with his rockets. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: WayAbvPar on February 09, 2005, 10:08:49 AM I hope he was playing "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" on the copter's loudspeakers as he delivered it. In a white uniform. I just stabbed myself in both eardrums to hopefully avoid ever hearing that song again. Thanks for the reminder- I have been meaning to get around to it for years now. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Joe on February 09, 2005, 10:39:59 AM Yeah, but then the family guy episode where Stewie and the guy who played the Sicilian in The Princess Bride sing a duet is far less funny, Way.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: schild on February 09, 2005, 11:51:20 AM That's not love. That's ridiculous. Using our nations resources is no laughing matter.
I do wonder how much that delivery costed the government in ROFLCOPTER fuel. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Ironwood on February 09, 2005, 11:55:58 AM Romance is a lie women tell themselves before opening their snatch.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: schild on February 09, 2005, 11:57:31 AM Romance is a lie women tell themselves before opening their snatch. Lol. This thread is about 30 seconds from going to the den. I do believe it's Signe's intention for it to go there anyway. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: SirBruce on February 09, 2005, 11:59:21 AM Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Bruce Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Ironwood on February 09, 2005, 12:01:18 PM Ah, that made me laugh. Ice Weasels.
Excellent. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Signe on February 09, 2005, 12:10:04 PM I think very nearly almost everything should go there.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Nazrat on February 09, 2005, 12:33:57 PM If the pilot was flying training missions anyway, the fuel was going to be burnt on nonsense anyway.
It's not like the guy was in the terminal and decided to make a special flight to airlift the pizza. The whole point of a training flight is to burn fuel and get flight hours. This guy found a way to multitask his military job with his love life. Hurray for him! Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Paelos on February 09, 2005, 12:38:58 PM It was probably a roleplaying game they wanted to try. She was the young brash cadet in another land, and he was the eager pizza delivery boy with access to a military chopper. It's better than the plots of most porn movies.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: MrHat on February 09, 2005, 12:41:20 PM It was probably a roleplaying game they wanted to try. She was the young brash cadet in another land, and he was the eager pizza delivery boy with access to a military chopper. It's better than the plots of most Fixed it for you. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: schmoo on February 09, 2005, 01:17:34 PM Just to put this thread back on topic, sort of:
(http://jimala.com/DominoPizza.jpg) Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Sky on February 09, 2005, 01:56:26 PM Our most successful military operation in years.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Ironwood on February 09, 2005, 02:02:30 PM Goodness, everyone's being funny in here : This thread gets the drunk Ironwood Seal of Approval.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Furiously on February 09, 2005, 02:17:39 PM Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Bruce Furiously was trying to decide if you were serious or not, then Furiously figured the ice weasels were actually people in ice weasel suits. Then Furiously realized Furiously was going to the bad place. And now Furiously is crying in a corner, making me type this. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Fabricated on February 09, 2005, 02:18:18 PM Our most successful military operation in years. All he would've needed to do to make it perfect is find some way to blow up some Canadian troops by accident. Also, MrHat's avatar disturbs the shit out of me. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Paelos on February 09, 2005, 02:19:13 PM Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Bruce Furiously was trying to decide if you were serious or not, then Furiously figured the ice weasels were actually people in ice weasel suits. Then Furiously realized Furiously was going to the bad place. And now Furiously is crying in a corner, making me type this. Bob Dole called, he wants his shtick back. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Alkiera on February 09, 2005, 02:57:12 PM That's not love. That's ridiculous. Using our nations resources is no laughing matter. I do wonder how much that delivery costed the government in ROFLCOPTER fuel. I doubt it cost our government anything, Schild. Our government doesn't have a Ministry of Defense... On the other hand, Britain DOES, which is probably why the BBC asked them about it, rather than the Pentagon. Britain is also the location of Stanford, Norfolk... At least until some giant tidal wave moves it into... France, or something. Alkiera Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: schild on February 09, 2005, 03:10:07 PM Touche.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Signe on February 09, 2005, 03:18:27 PM Touche. It was a little hard to read. You don't need to thank me. This thread has become decidedly unromantic. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: eldaec on February 09, 2005, 03:22:58 PM This link is only amusing if you are in the UK, and even then you've probably been emailed it about three hundred times today (http://img218.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img218&image=valentinecard1mr.jpg)
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Signe on February 09, 2005, 04:11:50 PM This link is only amusing if you are in the UK, and even then you've probably been emailed it about three hundred times today (http://img218.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img218&image=valentinecard1mr.jpg) Heh. Before we left the UK, I was getting constant spam from Tesco, inviting me to join their online service, bank, credit card, etc. They are relentless. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Rodent on February 09, 2005, 05:51:51 PM When the hell did pizza become romantic?
I see myself saving a fortune in future dating. Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: TheWalrus on February 09, 2005, 05:59:14 PM Is the ice weasels thing from Groening or Barry? I can't remember.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: SirBruce on February 09, 2005, 11:37:25 PM Is the ice weasels thing from Groening or Barry? I can't remember. Groening, but he jokingly attributed it to Nietzsche at the time. Bruce Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Calantus on February 10, 2005, 03:22:37 PM Heh, something similar happened down here recently. A fire fighter took the fire engine to get some pizza, and then there was a fire, and that was the only truck supposedly on duty. Oops. He's in trouble now, not that it should surprise anyone.
Here's a link (http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,9353,12172921-1702,00.html) Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Ardent on February 11, 2005, 01:30:46 PM I take my love advice from the great, departed Warren Zevon:
"I can saw a woman in two, But you won't want to look in the box When I'm through. I can make love disappear, For my next trick I'll need a volunteer." Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Arnold on February 15, 2005, 03:17:48 AM A friend's brother told me how a helicopter pilot landed in a McDonald's parking lot in Germany and gave him an order to run in.
Title: Re: So Romantic! Post by: Cheddar on February 15, 2005, 03:24:48 AM A friend's brother told me how a helicopter pilot landed in a McDonald's parking lot in Germany and gave him an order to run in. My uncles daughters friend heard someone tell his friend that a tank once pulled into a drive through movie theater. |