Every Friday morning at work we have a stand-up meeting for the entire team. The meeting is run by the commanding officer and he imparts a lot of information along with some great humor (er humour). Unfortunately it's great Aussie humor; I walk away feeling like a dullard because I either didn't hear it or I didn't get it. Today was one of those days where I didn't get it.
Today the commanding officer of the commanding officer was here (I'd give you their ranks, but it kind of goes over my head before I can grasp what they said). Anyway, they had this fake little bird and were saying this one gal may have been having some problems with budgie smugglers. I knew a budgie was a bird, but why was that so funny and why was that gal turning so red? Hmmm. She said she happened to see the commanding officer of the commanding officer last week on holiday in Fiji, but I didn't quite see the connection. Oh well, chalk it up to another thing that makes me feel like a witless wonder.
After the meeting, one of my coworkers, Jim, asked me and a couple others if we understood what was so funny and we said no, we didn't. Jim has been here the longest so he's had more time to get tuned into things so he was kind enough to explain to us that a budgie smuggler is a man's speedo swimming suit! Um, I didn't have to think too hard about how they came up with that one - Aussie slang is something else! Suddenly, the gal seeing the not-so-young commanding officer of the commander officer in Fiji was seeming awfully relevant to budgie smugglers! I'll say no more.
This weekend the base is holding an Air Show and they expect to have 30 to 40 thousand people in attendance. Eric and I debated on whether or not we were going to go, but knowing how most Aussie systems work we came to the conclusion that if we went we'd have to spend an awful lot more time there than we'd like because we wouldn't be able to get out of there! I was fortunate enough to see most all of the planes from out the window at work today. There was a Constellation out there which just about made Eric decide he wanted to go.
Today I became more convinced I didn't want to go to the air show because I got to see some of the practice maneuvers they were doing. The best was the F-111 which will soon be retired from the Aussie fleet. I also saw some cool formation flying. I definitely appreciated the show without fighting the crowds, but the downside is it sure made it hard to concentrate on work!
Heaven knows it'll be hard to concentrate on the beach now that I know those speedos are actually budgie smugglers!
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