Raf Uxbridge Puns

Popular with his fellow airmen, he had shown himself to be a combat pilot of remarkable skill, and had achieved almost legendary status in the early months of the war.

This biography, written by Paul Harrison,  was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2000.

Known throughout the British Empire in 1940 as ‘Cobber’ Kain the fighter ace, Edgar James Kain was born on 27 June 1918 at Hastings, the son of Nellie Maria Keen and her husband, George William Reginald Kain, a warehouseman. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Wellington. Edgar’s early education was at the Wellington Diocesan Boys’ School at Days Bay, where he exhibited natural leadership. In 1933 he commenced secondary schooling as a boarder at Christ’s College, Christchurch. Here he began to show a keen interest in military aviation, watching aircraft from the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram. A good sportsman, he represented the college in rugby, rowing and shooting, and excelled in athletics. He left college without matriculating in 1935.

Kain joined the Wellington Aero Club in 1936 and quickly showed promise as a trainee pilot, flying solo after only 7 hours and 20 minutes of instruction. He gained an ‘A’ pilot’s licence at Wigram later that year. He worked for a time as a clerk in his father’s merchant business, but flying became his first passion, and entry to the Royal Air Force his one ambition. In late 1936 Kain’s father sailed to England on business, accompanied by Edgar, his mother and a sister. On arrival Edgar approached the Air Ministry for a short-service commission, but failed the medical as his blood pressure was a little high. To improve his general health he worked for a time as a farm labourer, then reapplied and was accepted into the RAF in December.

Kain’s elementary flying training was at a civil school at Brough, Humberside, after which he was promoted to acting pilot officer on 21 December. Following ground training at RAF Uxbridge, he started advanced flying training in March 1937. He gained his pilot’s wings in June and in November was posted to No 73 Squadron at Digby, Lincolnshire. Kain showed his excellence at aerobatics with an exhibition in a Gloster Gladiator bi-plane at the 1938 Empire Air Day show at Hendon. In July that year he began flying the RAF’s new Hawker Hurricane fighters, and in July 1939 he was promoted to flying officer.

With war approaching, No 73 Squadron was mobilised on 24 August 1939. It was poste

for those who haven't heard: the Big Book of Behold Advice discontinued operations on April 8th. The spreadsheet remains online, but no further updates are expected. It was fun while it lasted O:-)

For posterity's sake, here are the Big Book's final Tier rankings, divided first by "Crew Rarity", then by BB Tier, then finally listed alphabetically by crew name. Variants of Crew whose names don't reflect their variant status (e.g. the Dixon Hill variants of Picard) have their namesake in parentheses. Crew that are not yet in the Portal (and hence, also not subject to Retrieval) are listed in italics; Crew that will NEVER hit the Portal (e.g. those that can ONLY be obtained via Voyages, the Honor Hall or Gauntlet rewards) are listed in bold italics.

Legendary / golden / 5-star crew

Tier 1 -- Captain Braxton; Gary Seven; Locutus of Borg; Reunion Spock and Kirk; The Red Angel

Tier 2 -- Adira Tal; Barry Waddle; Boothby Replicant; Breen Disguise Kira; Carlos Data; Dahar Master Koloth; Determined Paris; Dexa; First Officer Burnham; Human Saru; Indulgent Seven a.k.a. "Cheesecake Seven" or "C7"; Interfaced La Forge; Ishan Chaye Sisko; Juliana Tainer; Klingon West; Leucon; Medic Jett Reno; Merry Men Troi; Mirror Jean Luc Picard; Mok'Bara Crusher; Mycelial Culber; Niners Ezri; Picard and Number One; Prisoner Kim; Sinister Picard; Stranded Quark; Surak; Tactical Officer Neelix; The Caretaker; Tribble Herder Scott; Warship EMA; Wrathful Kirk

Tier 3 -- Activated Dahj; Age of Sail Picard; Age of Sail Worf; Amelia Earhart; Assimilated Hawk; Ba'ul; Bartender Guinan; Bridge Officer Number One; Caldos IV Crusher; Control Leland; Courier Burnham; Determined Janeway; Doctor Van Gogh; EDF Adira; EV Suit Spock; EV Suit Worf; Fury Kes; Gladiator Spock; Governor Worf; High Roller Sisko; Homesteader Janeway; Honored Owosekun; Humbled Archer; Kahless the Unforgettable; Kremin Guest Chakotay; Laborer Kirk; Leonardo da Vinci; Luau Paris; Mambo Picard; Maquis Takeover Seska; Mirror Doctor Culber; Mirror Saru; Nanoprobe Phlox; New Eden Pike; Platonian Chekov; Polaric Janeway; Prisoner Katrina Cornwell; Professor Sato; Prophet Sarah Sisko; Queen Po; Quinn; Science Officer Spock; Socrates; Soji Asha; Survivalist Kirk; Tactical Stamets; USS Zheng He Riker; Vice Admiral Janeway; Xindi Insectoid Counselor

Tier 4 -- Armus; Assimilated La Forge; Away Team Micha

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

This post is shrouded in much mystery and i should start with a story.

Over a decade ago, my grandmother had organised a small christmas get together which was to include the whole family. There was to be drinks and food all cooked in the spirit of christmas and the day was set to be as fulfilling as they always were.

My Grandmother was born the youngest of 3 siblings, to which her sister lived on the south coast and her brother lived a few villages down towards the nearest city. That being said it was not common for either of them to attend many family gatherings however this time her brother, my great uncle, was going to come along for the meal and see the family to exchange gifts.

My great uncle was due to be collected by my grandfather around mid-day so he left in the car with plenty of time to spare. Upon arrival to my GU's house, he received no reply from his repeated attempts at knocking so decided to look through the window to find him face down, dead on the floor.

At the time of passing, he was in his early 80's so it was to be expected that the man wouldnt have many miles left in the tank but regardless, not a particularly great morale booster in the festive season.

After a week or so, i was invited by my mother to help sort out his house which felt like a time warm back into the mid 60's, with the only recent glympse of the modern world a TV/VHS combi unit in the living room. Upon entering the spare room, i was greeted with a jumble of things from paperwork to photos ( which has led me to this point, albeit some time ago) to an old trunk which contained part of his old military uniform. After much time spent questioning the family, and through some research of my own i had more questions than answers and so i would like to share what i know and hopefully someone here will aid my investigation into this mystery photograph.

So i thought i should compile a list of facts that i know to be true which should hopefully aid this investigation to the mystery photo.

My GU:

Went to St Andrews University to study several degrees.

Joined the RAF thereafter as an officer and spent time at RAF Uxbridge and was part of the education branch.

Spent time in Berlin following the collapse of the Third Reich.

Spent time in Syria ( I also found an ornate syrian robe in his collection with the address of a tailor based in damscus) Saudi Arabia and other parts of the middle east.

He was fluent in several different arabian languages.

He was never marrie

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

I heard parents named their children lance a lot.

First post please don't kill me

Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!

She said apple-lutely

second hand stores!

it's Hans free now..

Old Neeeeiiiiighvy

10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too

A buck-an-ear!

I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!

Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!

He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.

Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:

Riceless

That was the punchline

Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"

I did not know.

So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"

So proud.

Feyonce

He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.

He said, “Change the batteries in your hearing aid”.

She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up

So far no one has given me a straight answer.

Alzheimer, Grandma, it's Alzheimer.

You look for the fresh prints!

Transparent

(sorry it sucks, it's like 2:30 in the morning right now and I haven't slept)

(Edit: holy shit! I wasn't expecting this to get so many upvotes. Also thanks for the awards guys, I really appreciate it!)

It’s a dad-ly disease.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads that get me though my day to day life, without you Dad Jokes wouldn’t mean a thing 😉

Oops, wrong sub.

for those who haven't heard: the Big Book of Behold Advice discontinued operations on April 8th. The spreadsheet remains online, for now, but no further updates are expected. It was fun all it lasted O:-)

For posterity's sake, here are the Big Book's final Tier rankings, divided first by "Crew Rarity", then by BB Tier, then finally listed alphabetically by crew name. Variants of "name" Crew that aren't named as such (e.g. the Dixon Hill variants of Picard) have their namesake in parentheses. Crew that AREN'T in the Portal (and hence, also not subject to Retrieval) are listed in italics

Legendary / golden / 5-star crew

Tier 1 -- Captain Braxton; Gary Seven; Locutus of Borg; Reunion Spock and Kirk; The Red Angel

Tier 2 -- Adira Tal; Barry Waddle; Boothby Replicant; Breen Disguise Kira; Carlos Data; Dahar Master Koloth; Determined Paris; Dexa; First Officer Burnham; Human Saru; Indulgent "Cheesecake" Seven; Interfaced La Forge; Ishan Chaye Sisko; Juliana Tainer; Klingon West; Leucon; Medic Jett Reno; Merry Men Troi; Mirror Jean Luc Picard; Mok'Bara Crusher; Mycelial Culber; Niners Ezri; Picard and Number One; Prisoner Kim; Sinister Picard; Stranded Quark; Surak; Tactical Officer Neelix; The Caretaker; Tribble Herder Scott; Warship EMA; Wrathful Kirk

Tier 3 -- Activated Dahj; Age of Sail Picard; Age of Sail Worf; Amelia Earhart; Assimilated Hawk; Ba'ul; Bartender Guinan; Bridge Officer Number One; Caldos IV Crusher; Control Leland; Courier Burnham; Determined Janeway; Doctor Van Gogh; EDF Adira; EV Suit Spock; EV Suit Worf; Fury Kes; Gladiator Spock; Governor Worf; High Roller Sisko; Homesteader Janeway; Honored Owosekun; Humbled Archer; Kahless the Unforgettable; Kremin Guest Chakotay; Laborer Kirk; Leonardo da Vinci; Luau Paris; Mambo Picard; Maquis Takeover Seska; Mirror Doctor Culber; Mirror Saru; Nanoprobe Phlox; New Eden Pike; Platonian Chekov; Polaric Janeway; Prisoner Katrina Cornwell; Professor Sato; Prophet Sarah Sisko; Queen Po; Quinn; Science Officer Spock; Socrates; Soji Asha; Survivalist Kirk; Tactical Stamets; USS Zheng He Riker; Vice Admiral Janeway; Xindi Insectoid Counselor

Tier 4 -- Armus; Assimilated La Forge; Away Team Michael Burnham; Bridal Deanna Troi; Conditioned La Forge; Dark Empath Troi; Decoy Kira; Defensive Phlox; Delta Flyer Torres; Dereth; Dr. Edward La Forge; Dr. Pollard; Dr. Roger Korby; EV Suit Nhan; Evolved Janeway; Executiv