On Mon Jul-31-2017 15:20, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Joe Delahaye:
PQ> Hi! Joe,
PQ> On Sun, 30 Jul 17, you wrote to me:
RN>>>>>>>>>>> Then you knew how it was done all along and
RN>>>>>>>were just testing the rest of us? (-:
RN>>>>>>>>>>>
JD>>>>>>>>>>> No idea.
RN>>>>>>>>>> When will you get one?
JD>>>>>>>>>> Might take some time <G>
RN>>>>>>>>> I'll stand down until then.
JD>>>>>>>>> Good idea <G>
RN>>>>>>>> That will give you time to figure out what the
RN>>>>>>>> opposite of stand down is. (-:
JD>>>>>>>> Sit up?
RN>>>>>>> No. Would you like another guess or two? (-:
PQ>>>>>> An ex-Air Force wallah wouldn't have a clue. Make
PQ>>>>>> him squirm. 
JD>>>>> See my answer to Roger <G>
PQ>>>> Keep twisting. You may twig to it yet.[smirk]
JD>>> Might also have different meanings, depending on
JD>>> which military of course.
PQ>> Yep, hence my remark.
JD>>> Stand down order means to stop and go relax. We have
JD>>> been (as a base) been
JD>>> stood down for weather related stuff, Like a foot or
JD>>> more of snow, or extremely high temperatures.
PQ>> Yeah. But Roger was prompting for the reverse of
PQ>> 'stand down'. Wanna try for another spin of the wheel?
PQ>> 8-)
JD> Well I know of no other reverse then to get back to work.
PQ> TBH, I don't have an exact idea as to what Roger may be thinking.
PQ> For the short time when I had a green skin, in a 'full tactical'
PQ> environment there was a kind of drill that was enacted twice a day:
PQ> sunset & sunrise. (No, t'ain't no flag raising & saluting thing
PQ> either.) As I indicated, a feller in blues may not have been so
PQ> trained. Particularly a technician such as yourself.
PQ> Mmm... I wonder if this is what Roger has in mind? Roger, what say
PQ> you? ;-)
I say I half expected that from an ex air force dude. (-:
We had a guy at our church some years ago whose surname is Junkers. He is a
helicoptor mechanic. How ironic is that?
Regards,
Roger
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