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> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: When John was excused duties from Rolls Royce
> Date: 05 February 2000 09:15
>
> -jonmac wrote after surging and blowing up a Rolls Royce Spey jet engine
>
> > Half an hour later, with a week's pay in my pocket and the admonitions
of
> my late uncle
> > ringing in my ears - that day was not one of his better ones, I was on
my
> way home.ek?"
>
> - John - my dear friend
>
> You haven't told the real reason for 'being excused duties' at Rolls.
>
> What ACTUALLY happened, I was told, is that it was your 'sense of
humour',
> not the fact that you blew a Spey engine and one and a half Rolls test
> cells up that caused the problem.
>
> Apparently, your Uncle Adrian (The Engineering Director of Rolls) was
more
> put out by your 'reply' to the dressing down he gave you. With steam
coming
> out of his ears he said words to the effect, "Do you bloody well know
that
> a new Spey engine and new test cells will cost the company about 1.5
> million pounds?"
>
> Your reply, my dear boy, went something like this, "Uncle Adrian Sir, I
> hope your not intending to take it out of my wages, I only earn 12 quid a
> week??!!!!!!!
>
> Is that true John or have I got it wrong??
>
> Paul
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