Peak Rail 2008 101st Airborne with 81mm mortar

Hopefully you are looking at a picture of the mortar team in action! Murph.

Concentrating on the orders and then selecting the approriate rounds before loading....

The Germans!

Murph,

Some good pics there...can you burn me a disc as well when you do the one for Paul and post out, I'll cover the costs

Same goes for Riz pics please

Ta !

disc burnt les, any other event pics you want?

rizla

Les Brock wrote:Murph,

Some good pics there...can you burn me a disc as well when you do the one for Paul and post out, I'll cover the costs

Same goes for Riz pics please

Ta !

Will do Sarge, don't worry about the cost I will cover that, just need to find the time to do it properly. Will get it to you in due course. Sorry but I have only just learned how to put Pics. onto the Forum

Murph.

murph wrote:

Les Brock wrote:Murph,

Some good pics there...can you burn me a disc as well when you do the one for Paul and post out, I'll cover the costs

Same goes for Riz pics please

Ta !

Will do Sarge, don't worry about the cost I will cover that, just need to find the time to do it properly. Will get it to you in due course. Sorry but I have only just learned how to put Pics. onto the Forum

Murph.

Think I've cracked the problem, M has too many songs on her IPOD files and we ran out of memory. Had to delete some of mine Les but I will be sending you a CD of some of the best action shots from the mortar display. Is it easier for you to copy them and send the disc onto Paul or should I do another one for him?

Murph.

just a couple of pics i took last year over at peak rail

nigel116 wrote:just a couple of pics i took last year over at peak rail

No sign yet Nigel?

i will try again tommorrow i have mailed them to sam

finally got there can someone please delete the one that i duplicated

God, what a rubbish display

It reminds me though I need to get some scrim!

murph wrote:God, what a rubbish display

It reminds me though I need to get some scrim!

good pics

remember mate that not all troopers had scrim

Sam

samharris45 wrote:

murph wrote:God, what a rubbish display

It reminds me though I need to get some scrim!

good pics

remember mate that not all troopers had scrim

Sam

True, but I like the look of it! FARBY...

this may seem like a strange question but what does farby actually stand for, i have nver thought about it untill now

I thought it meant " Far be (farby) it for me to say but you look like sack of shit" ...or... similar!!

Nobody really knows, and there's no agreed origin. Some say, as Paul has said that it comes from the days of ACW re-enactment when others would say "Far be it from me to criticize, but..." Others claim it comes from the rather bright and over-coloured uniforms worn by some ACW re-enactos, and is taken from the German for colour (farbe). Either way, the origins are exactly unknown, but the term itself is largely believed to date from the mid 1960s.

Another possible origin is taken from the following letter dated 1 April 1863 from A.R. Crawford in the 76th Illinois Infantry, Co D (here's only a portion):

Six children from the local village appeared wearing fallacious accoutrements & reprehensible baggage and thought they would put a sham battle on for our amusement. We laughed so hard at their imitation of soldiers that our sides were hurting for hours. Talk about poorly drilled fresh fish. These boys were made honorary officers starting with general down to private. They each got a penny or more tossed at them and ran off, no doubt, to delight others.

Some claim it's the oldest reference to the word "FARB", others claim it's simply a tongue in cheek explanation!

Cheers,
Ben.

Ben you are a walking version of Wikipedia!

murph wrote:Ben you are a walking version of Wikipedia!

That's for sure...............

thats for darn sure