Darling is to make an announcement at 3.30 - bit of a problem?

[Churchill]

Very good.

Achtung! Englander Schweinhund! Himmel! Donner und blitzen! Blitzkrieg! Spitfeuer! Aaaaarg!

That was the only conversation German I learned at school. A bit limiting when I went to work there.

Yeah, I used to read "Victor", "Warlord" and "Bullet".

Then as a teenager after I was released from borstal I started reading 2000A.D.

[AlfredJPruffock]

There ARE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they're not there.

Do you like my new suit? Loverly isn't it? Only very clever people can see it.

Yes - you must believe Labours Policies as an act of Faith - I believe in WMD's both visible and invisible - and the ones they shipped to Iran - and yes I do like your suit - only an idiot would argue otherwise.

[wendigo100]

Yeah, I used to read "Victor", "Warlord" and "Bullet".

Then as a teenager after I was released from borstal I started reading 2000A.D.

I was a Valiant boy meself, but I also read those little war-story cartoon books, a bit smaller than A5 if I recall correctly. Can't remember what they were called but they were a bit more graphic.

When I got out of Borstal it was Marvel comics.

[Gunnery Sergeant Highway]

I was a Valiant boy meself, but I also read those little war-story cartoon books, a bit smaller than A5 if I recall correctly. Can't remember what they were called but they were a bit more graphic.

Commando it was (and is - it's still published I was amazed to find the other day). It taught me everything I needed to know about life.

http://www.commandomag.com/

[wendigo100]

Commando it was (and is - it's still published I was amazed to find the other day). It taught me everything I needed to know about life.

http://www.commandomag.com/

Thank you sir.

I believe there used to be other titles from the same stable. Some involved Paddy Payne, who was a pilot rather than a commando.

[Troll]

Commando it was (and is - it's still published I was amazed to find the other day). It taught me everything I needed to know about life.

http://www.commandomag.com/

I don't know why, but when I clicked on that link I got an over whelming sense of there should be a sweet included - did they ever get sold with a free packet of really flat square red bubble gum plus some type of picture card???

flipping memory

[Troll]

Oh and the bubblegum tasted carp

[Troll]

superb CUK tangent btw

[Gunnery Sergeant Highway]

Thank you sir.

I believe there used to be other titles from the same stable. Some involved Paddy Payne, who was a pilot rather than a commando.

Mmmm, vague memories stirring there, you might be right.

Just browsed their site a little more and frak me, not only are they still publishing (surprising in itself in these PC obsessed days) but they publish eight issues a month!!! Four reprint issues and four all-new issues.

Commando picture stories for boys first broke cover in 1961 and we’re still out there. Every month you’ll find eight books on sale, four on the second Wednesday and another four on the last Wednesday.

That’s four brand new ones and four classic re-issues from our archives. Back in 1961, all the stories were about the Second World War, but now we cover the action and adventure from the First World War, the Boer War, the Napoleonic Wars, Korea, Vietnam – plus many more.

You’ll even find Romans, Vikings and the like lurking in our pages.

[Troll]

When I got out of Borstal it was Marvel comics.

Silver Surfer was the best.. remember I had issue #1 plus about 500 other Marvel comics in a old suitcase ... parents burnt them while tidying up my bedroom when I was away at college