"Parker's Tin Can"

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Ensign Charles Parker was originally the character played brilliantly by Tim Conway in the TV series McHale's Navy.

Darn it, I knew I heard that name (Ensign Parker) somewhere before. That used to be one of my favorite shows too. Can't believe I couldn't think of that.

[Arlo]

Definately has me looking at 'Parker's Tin Can' in a whole new light.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

Darn it, I knew I heard that name (Ensign Parker) somewhere before. That used to be one of my favorite shows too. Can't believe I couldn't think of that.

Don't blame yourself. I'm pretty sure I was the one who suggested him as the American replacement for Bernard.

[Arlo]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Don't blame yourself. I'm pretty sure I was the one who suggested him as the American replacement for Bernard.

Dibs on McHales cocked hat, goofy face publicity pic when I make my next donation and can shuck the standard biopic rotation. IF there's not someone else who beat me to it. There's another Matt Sherman on the forum.

[subcpo]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Orginally someone (i forget who) decided that this character for fleet boats should be named "Dinsdale". However Dinsdale sounds more British then American, so i tried to rename him to something a bit more unique to American comedy, hence the name "Parker".

Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born, on probationn the slums of London, in 1929. Doug was born in February that year, and Dinsdale two weeks later, and again the week after that. Their father, Arthur Piranha, was a TV quizmaster and scrapmetal dealer who was well known to the police and a devout Catholic, who in January 1928 had married Kitty Malone, an up and coming East End boxer. Doug and Dinsdale were found too mentally unbalanced even for National Service, and became extortionists, running a protection racket after several false starts. Having acquired enough money, the Piranha Brothers formed a gang which they called "The Gang". They proceeded to use terror to take over (among other things) night clubs, billiard halls, gaming casinos and race tracks, failing only to acquire the MCC. It is said that Dinsdale was a gentleman; he bought his mother flowers and that he knew how to treat a female impersonater. Despite a jaw-dropping violent streak (including nailing people's heads to the floor and to coffee tables, and screwing people's pelvises to cake stands), he was beloved by everyone who knew him, most considering him "a cruel man, but fair". The local chief constable was in his employ, and would help him threaten others with a thermonuclear device. Dinsdale also possessed a tank. Known associates of the Piranhas included American musical stars, aristocrats, a man named Kierkegaard who bit the heads off whippets and other gang leaders.

Dinsdale was deeply afraid of Spiny Norman, an (apparently) imaginary hedgehog who, he believed, lived in a hangar at Luton Airport and who "was wont to be about twelve feet from "snout to tail", (one version states "about twelve feet from "tip of his snout to his anus"); when Dinsdale was depressed, Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long."

[Arlo]

Originally Posted by subcpo

Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born, on probationn the slums of London, in 1929. Doug was born in February that year, and Dinsdale two weeks later, and again the week after that. Their father, Arthur Piranha, was a TV quizmaster and scrapmetal dealer who was well known to the police and a devout Catholic, who in January 1928 had married Kitty Malone, an up and coming East End boxer. Doug and Dinsdale were found too mentally unbalanced even for National Service, and became extortionists, running a protection racket after several false starts. Having acquired enough money, the Piranha Brothers formed a gang which they called "The Gang". They proceeded to use terror to take over (among other things) night clubs, billiard halls, gaming casinos and race tracks, failing only to acquire the MCC. It is said that Dinsdale was a gentleman; he bought his mother flowers and that he knew how to treat a female impersonater. Despite a jaw-dropping violent streak (including nailing people's heads to the floor and to coffee tables, and screwing people's pelvises to cake stands), he was beloved by everyone who knew him, most considering him "a cruel man, but fair". The local chief constable was in his employ, and would help him threaten others with a thermonuclear device. Dinsdale also possessed a tank. Known associates of the Piranhas included American musical stars, aristocrats, a man named Kierkegaard who bit the heads off whippets and other gang leaders.

Dinsdale was deeply afraid of Spiny Norman, an (apparently) imaginary hedgehog who, he believed, lived in a hangar at Luton Airport and who "was wont to be about twelve feet from "snout to tail", (one version states "about twelve feet from "tip of his snout to his anus"); when Dinsdale was depressed, Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long."

Monty Python.

[subcpo]

Originally Posted by Arlo

Monty Python.

My Favorite Episode...Tonight on Ethel the Frog

[razark]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Don't blame yourself. I'm pretty sure I was the one who suggested him as the American replacement for Bernard.

So it was you!


I was always in favor of Seaman Hornsby.

[Able Brown]

Dinsdale was deeply afraid of Spiny Norman, an (apparently) imaginary hedgehog who...

Having played the U-Boat commander, I'm pretty scared of Hedgehogs myself.



http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMBR_ASW.htm

[Bubblehead1980]

did the IJN ever use hedgehog or anything like it? I once saw on specs for an ASW craft about a "mortar" and was wondering why a ASW escort would have a mortar, perhaps it was similar to hedgehog?

[Sailor Steve]

According to NavWeaps, no, the Japanese didn't have any ahead-thrown weapons. I recall reading about a mortar used on some sub-chasers, but I trust this site and accept that there wasn't one. The mortar used by merchants is listed at the very bottom.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMJAP_ASW.htm

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by subcpo

Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born, on probationn the slums of London, in 1929. Doug was born in February that year, and Dinsdale two weeks later, and again the week after that. Their father, Arthur Piranha, was a TV quizmaster and scrapmetal dealer who was well known to the police and a devout Catholic, who in January 1928 had married Kitty Malone, an up and coming East End boxer. Doug and Dinsdale were found too mentally unbalanced even for National Service, and became extortionists, running a protection racket after several false starts. Having acquired enough money, the Piranha Brothers formed a gang which they called "The Gang". They proceeded to use terror to take over (among other things) night clubs, billiard halls, gaming casinos and race tracks, failing only to acquire the MCC. It is said that Dinsdale was a gentleman; he bought his mother flowers and that he knew how to treat a female impersonater. Despite a jaw-dropping violent streak (including nailing people's heads to the floor and to coffee tables, and screwing people's pelvises to cake stands), he was beloved by everyone who knew him, most considering him "a cruel man, but fair". The local chief constable was in his employ, and would help him threaten others with a thermonuclear device. Dinsdale also possessed a tank. Known associates of the Piranhas included American musical stars, aristocrats, a man named Kierkegaard who bit the heads off whippets and other gang leaders.

Dinsdale was deeply afraid of Spiny Norman, an (apparently) imaginary hedgehog who, he believed, lived in a hangar at Luton Airport and who "was wont to be about twelve feet from "snout to tail", (one version states "about twelve feet from "tip of his snout to his anus"); when Dinsdale was depressed, Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long."

Hehe... sweet... MP. Soon enough we'll be hosting inspector Harry "snaper" Organs. But now, for something completely different.

[subcpo]

Sancho Panza (Mr Organs) spoilt an otherwise impeccably choreographed rape scene by his unscheduled appearance and persistent cries of "What's all this then?"'

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

According to NavWeaps, no, the Japanese didn't have any ahead-thrown weapons. I recall reading about a mortar used on some sub-chasers, but I trust this site and accept that there wasn't one. The mortar used by merchants is listed at the very bottom.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMJAP_ASW.htm

Thanks, I was wondering.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

did the IJN ever use hedgehog or anything like it? I once saw on specs for an ASW craft about a "mortar" and was wondering why a ASW escort would have a mortar, perhaps it was similar to hedgehog?

"Mortor" i think is a contextual synonym for a Y gun, or a weapon very similar.