100+ Great Stories

***Spike's retirement & Andy Edgerton's remembrance do  15 Nov 2005 - see Recent Photo's***

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GREAT MOMENTS IN OPERATIONS RELIVED
(These stories will be expanded on when time allows)

1

Dave A, a driving ban, and the bus shelter.

2

Dave A and his ex-wife’s canaries

3

Hen’s "coming together" with Ed at Denis’s birthday in the curry house

4

"If I Were a Rich Man" (deedle didel deedle deedle dum)

5

Spike battling in to work during a blizzard and being told off for unprofessional attire.

6

The Great Stoughton Air Show embarrassment ("You awright S***?")

7

Spike’s white shoes, Keith’s hairy wellies

8

2 Ops cavorting outside the dining room whilst being watched (unknowingly) by the Yoga class (why were they in the dark?).

9

Chair racing

10

CTC nearly having a heart attack because Daz frightened him whilst wearing a white overall.

11

Pat and Harry getting the tape trolley stuck whilst trying to carry it down the stairs. (no we don’t know why they were carrying it down)

12

Dave Trudge ‘s bike saddle being removed (Dave had to cycle home with a smile on his face).

13

The famous "pile-drive" at Chris’s doo

14

The "Mason’s Apron" not hiding much(especially when flicked up" at the same doo

15

3 men voiding, 1 got caught

16

Used condom behind tape drives (was this true)

17

Harry dropping a set of keys onto Pat’s head (from one floor up)

18

Managers’ bog blocked with saucepan full of goulash

19

Chris pigeon "chasing" on the roof whilst VB was looking on saying ‘What’s he doing?

20

Max Clarke "repairing" Keith’s car

21

The french-polishing episode in managers dining room (not many know this)

22

Pool Chevette (a) Chris in the "traffic light grand prix" in the Pool Chevette at the top of London Road - Daz knocked the car out of gear just before Chris released the handbrake at 7000 rpm.

23

Pool Chevette (b)The two elderly Indian gents who wanted to go to Peterborough and turned across the A6, into A & LBS and down the hole for the new computer block - we towed them out using the Chevette - the clutch was never the same again.

24

Loz and the slide at Roosters

25

Pete stuck in the slide at Roosters

26

Chris, Denis and the "who can run to the other end of the building fastest" competition.

27

"P***ing Chris is Innocent" – (how did that that get in the pus file?)

28

Ed in trap one at Oadby - the "mopping up" exercise at the Christmas dinner c.1986

29

Charlie relieving himself outside the back door at Oadby ( at Shaun’s leaving doo) and being recorded by the security video

30

Doug’s motorbike being nicked(really) from the bike sheds – and not believing it

31

Colin and the missing gear lever knob

32

Spike’s ball and chain in the urinal trough at the Owl

33

The snowball fight outside the Owl

34

Malcolm Pegg and the cleaner.

35

The Dave and Doug drinking contest, courtesy of Mohawk

36

Why did the big Sony telly have a large chunk out of one corner?

37

The "handprint sensitive" computer room entry security device.

38

Kim Wilmot behind an Op hopping and the famous emission

39

Chris, Prav and the salt pot.

40

Mick and the winning raffle ticket - of the wrong colour

41

Chris telling the joke which involved saying "I **** did" every 10 seconds - this was in the Oadby tea room. Chris’s joke, and the ensuing hilarity, was clearly amplified in Data Control next door - this resulted in the supervisor storming in and asking him to desist, to even greater hilarity and applause from the audience.

42

Daz telling a joke, overheard by the same lady, involving a sex toy and a tartan flask – The tartan flask was replaced the next day by one with balloons on it.

43

The Flat Hat Wearers at the Sports & Social Bar (one of them looking very green as he’d thrown up at lunchtime

44

Ed nearly causing the "team" to be thrown out of Ansell’s Brewery.

45

Andy disappearing hastily down the public loo in Ashby de la Zouch after the Everard’s Brewery trip

46

A well-oiled team sprinting to the Oadby Admin Gents after arriving back the same brewery trip - all sporting Everard’s tee-shirts and paper hats.

47

Dave wedged upright on a stool between two colleagues, called in for a team "pep talk".

48

Dave A trying to load a punch card on an openreel tape drive. (n.b. I do not believe this)

49

Ron and the "ORN" on his blue Vauxhall Viva

50

Ian (son of Charlie – no change there then) powering kit off by pressing the Emergency Power Off button

51

On leaving the old Oadby computer room for the last time, somebody ceremonially pressed the big red Emergency Power Off button - nothing happened, it had never been connected in the first place!

52

Fred Pegg spying on the Ops

53

Taxis (etc.) sent to Fred Pegg

54

The boiling kettle on Alan’s office windowsill ......which shattered the window (sorry Alan)

55

The stone thrown up to alert the ops in Alan’s office.....which shattered the window (sorry Alan)

56

The curries in Alan’s waste basket (and down the wall) (sorry Alan)

57

The fag burns on Alan’s desk (sorry again Alan)

58

Charlie sharing Wild Turkey with Mark Cresswell....and falling through a hedge on the way home

59

Charlie spending a whole night attempting to fix the B3700 Paper Tape Reader. At around 0600 hrs, he found that somebody had set one of the switches on the front to the wrong position by leaning on it.

60

Mark and the elderly pork pie (and anything else he could find which was vaguely edible

61

Chris and the young lady who worked for Burroughs at Mark’s party...and the aftermath

62

Spike’s passport application modification - from "distinguishing marks - mole on chin" to "distinguishing marks - mole on bum" (culprit; D.A.)

63

The "Interesting" portrait of Spike in the Recovery Position in the First Aid Book

64

The posse from the evening shift shadowing the cleaner who was nicking cakes from the vending machine.

65

Pakamacs

66

Charlie on the floor at Rooster’s with ball of cheese drinking out of shoe

67

Trudge and Jenny both being caught with the "spoon" game at same event

68

An op "moving" the tea trolley – much to Pat’s annoyance.

69

The Barry and Rob match – enough said

70

Col getting his arm stuck in the automatic doors at Oadby – and breaking the TV (not at the same time)

71

Loz trapping Dave in the lift with the truck – for about 1 hr

72

Anita answering the door after hearing strange noises overnight, and finding a cow outside

73

Nik’s desk utilisation course

74

A "volunteer" at the Belmont Christmas party on the switchboard

75

Darren trying to pull everyone at Nottingham by doing his Take That bit

76

A YTS being sent to the post room for "a long weight", never to be seen again

77

Loz mishearing a truck driver delivering some paper and laughing after he’d said his best friend had just died

78

Pete Latham, the motorway, a wasp and a pair of shorts

79

Plastic dog turd in the morning meeting

80

Everyone wearing a neck collar when Daz returned after his crash

81

Charlie/Keith’s feud with the fart spray – 1st prize for under the drivers seat

82

Col declaring his discovery of a 3rd gear on his Honda (after he’d had it 3 months)

Ok, so there’s only 82, but I’m sure you will send more of your favorite’s in to make the 100