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15 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

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McDonald's in Australia did an April Fools joke in 2019 about a new burger called the McPickle.

 

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The joke backfired when people started ordering it. They don't list it on the menu but will make it on request.

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One of the few things that chronically inaccurate rubbish that was reasonably correct; the foot soldiers were levies and only basically trained, and their commanders had difficulty in preventing them from charging off at the enemy as soon as they were seen.  This was the ultimate deciding factor in the Battle of Hastings, when the English fyrd, the poor bloody infantry, resisted charge after charge from the Normans, who were trying to goad them into breaking ranks and giving up the high ground.  It was presumably the Norman who spread the rumour that William the Bastard had been killed, which was too much for the fyrd, who, thinking they'd won and provoked beyond all endurance, broke and charged down the hill at their enemy, only to be slaughtered by the finest and best-equipped heavy cavalry in Europe.  Senlac, the lake of blood...  Only the House Ceorls, Harold's blood-oathsworn guard, held out until their shieldwall fell under overpowering numbers of Normans.  None of them survived.

 

Cue Michael 'don't froe, bloody spears, at me' Caine in Zulu, 'don't fire until you can see the whites of their eyes'.

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8 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Cue Michael 'don't froe, bloody spears, at me' Caine in Zulu, 'don't fire until you can see the whites of their eyes'.

 

I saw D870 Zulu a few times, while it was based at Newton Abbot, but sadly never saw Michael Caine driving it. Nor his mate Maurice Micklewhite.

 

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Withdrawn following minor accident damage which was not deemed worth repairing. Cut up 12 May 1972 at Swindon

 

Perhaps someone had blown the bloody doors off?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_42#Names_and_liveries

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