Show Something Wrong if RAF Pilots Put Up a Black The RAF has developed a lan lan- language language language guage all its own Many of the terms such as Browned off oft for bored and Put up a black bla for doing something wrong have been adopted now into common usage Some expressions have been bor bor- borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed from rom the United States in including in- in including including which Flinging a woo means to have a date with a girl and Roughneck a d which in the RAF does not mean a tough guy but an person Gen means the real inside Information on anything and similarly duff gen means wrong information A flap is a sudden operation To be in a flap or orin orin orin in a flat spin means to be busy on a job too busy to do anything else The Chief Chic Plumber is of course the Chief Engineer the Quack is the doctor the Sec Second Second Second ond Dickey is the second pilot and a is an RAF pho pho- pho- pho Pilots who go dicing or on a difficult difficult do shaky are attacking a cult and dangerous target if its it's an easy target its it's a piece of cake After they drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker meaning to hang around to have a look To carry the can is to hold the baby or to be the scapegoat while pilots suffering from that morning-after morning feeling are newt ed |