Just Watching The Battle Of Britain.....

[ToraToraTora]

Chris walks into a pub and asks for a large scotch. How much?

[sanmac]

One shilling and sixpence.

[ToraToraTora]

Chris = Chris Plummer, sorry should have made that clear.

[ToraToraTora]

yes sanmac so 7 and a half pence in today's money!

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, but you could buy a Spitfire for £453 2/6d.

[douglas9401]

Always been an expensive beer.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I didnt like it much -
too much re-writing to fit into current norms

[ douglas bader in real time opposed repatriation of his batman: my skivvy you are and my skivvy you'll stay !
doesnt get much air time that
Ma daydy said he really was like that...]

[aelmpvw]

another 11½d and he could have had twenty fags . . .

[sandyRoe]

Were supplies of scotch not rationed? I'd have thought a drinker couldn't have got a double for love or money.

[Khandro]

PP. I Can confirm that above. My dad knew him in the RAF & said he was a bit of an awkward customer. The pressure & discipline he inflicted on himself, he distributed with abandon to everyone around him.

[goodgoalie]

There's a pub in London currently charging £8 a pint!

[aelmpvw]

think i'd be a bit of an awkward customer if i'd lost both my legs . . .

[ToraToraTora]

sandy, booze was one of the few things that wasn't rationed directly though some of the ingredients were but I think Scotch was pretty well available if you could afford it.

[Hopkirk]

Don't drink and fly.

[Khandro]

I once knew someone who during the war years drove on open top sports car which had a small leak in the rad. He carried around with him a gin bottle filled with water which he left on the passenger seat.

When he came out of the pub once, the bottle was gone & a £5 note (a huge amount of money at the time) was inside some paper which had written on it " Sorry chum, but my need is greater than yours!"

[sanmac]

I was right!...That was a wild guess when I mentioned one and six:)

[dustypuss]

Douglas bader was always leg less.