Good Numbers.

[Fablon biff chit]

24, there's a good number!

My question is, who keeps a good numbers book handy? Am I the only one?

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

I had one when I ran clothing stores for all those Gucci bits of kit that no-one knows about because they don't have a number.

 

[ICATQ]

In that case does anyone have the NSN for Break Free?

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

No but I can give the NSN for a Weight, Long.

I'll be back in a bit.

 

[rest have risen above me]

Good Numbers for single items

Good Numbers for single items

They keep a numbers book in our stores.
But when you try the numbers the computer says:
Qty 1 (and someone else might need it)

 

[Stax]

They keep a numbers book in our stores.
But when you try the numbers the computer says:
Qty 1 (and someone else might need it)

Oh and how I chuckled, guffawed, laughed, giggled, wet my pants, cracked up, split my sides, the tears ran down my cheeks, I got a stitch and couldn't breathe when I heard that old chestnut. Surely nowadays the answer should be "Computer say's no!", when you say "I want that one!"

 

[rest have risen above me]

couldn't resist

couldn't resist

couldn't resist it...
Anyway it's normally no you can't haven't got one.
But a like a good nco with his 252 in pocket a good techie always carries a ready filled in rob (oops cannibalization) chit....
makes your life easier then you don't have to chase us to find out which jet the thrunge gasket's for when it arrives in 3 months

 

[Jag Fag]

I still keep a book of Jag related NSN's. The c-store list is a god-send when I need to go d-state on a 'p-bulb' because we're no longer allowed to keep them - nice one OC Eng! I'll continue to go a state on a 40 pence bulb and keep an aircraft from flying to make a point

I find the response from Eng Ops highly amusing when they find out that I've gone a state on such a sundry item although the management always seem to find one before the rob option becomes a reality - come on 'grown-ups' make a stand against this lunacy!

 

[dkh51250]

So who could ever forget 9CA 101 the GPI for a Vulcan B2 -

 

[A CLING NERD SHRON]

Did you know:

The English number names from one to 10 are related through the Indo-European root to the corresponding prefixes for both Greek and Latin, with just one exception: mono- literally means single and one is just a synonym.

and dont forget that

According to the American Heritage Dictionary Third Edition (1997) the names for 100 in Greek, Latin, and English all have the same indo-European root, which is also the same as those for 10.

Moving on

This is where it starts to vary. Both the prefixes for 1000 in Greek chilia- and Latin mill- have the same root, but English's "thousand" is unrelated; it comes from German literally meaning "swollen hundred".

And finally

Googol, I really don't know how it came. It was coined around 1940 by someone who wanted to think about huge numbers, but I never found how this word actually came to be as it is. Is it an alteration of goggle or short for googoogoogoo...??

 

[wobbly]

Ive used our good numbers to order my shopping list for xmas.

Tank, Combat, Full Tracked 120mm M1A2 2350-01-3285964

Off to basrah soon so I want one of them on D state please.

Helecopter Attack 1520-01-3837925 and a Sqn of those please.

A Sqn of MH47G 1520-01-5138008

Machine Gun M60 7.62 1005-00-6057710 will part exchange for L85A2 with SUSAT

Minimi Machine Gun 5.56mm 1005-01-4516769

And in case of emergency I would like a Periscope Submarine 1240-01-4711214

A couple of Cluster Bombs, Fragmentation 1325-00-0285376

Some Chicken Buffalo Style in spicy sauce 8940-01-5175749 x50

Assault Vehicle Fully Tracked AMP 2350-00-9994312

Sexual Assault Determination Kit 6640-01-4239132

7.62 Gattling Gun, for my landrover 1005-01-4571704

Its amazing what you find in a good numbers book isnt it

Yes, we keep a brilliant numbers book full of numbers that we have previously demanded but when we get to "the counter of NO" its amazingly no item record

 

[Stax]

Yes, we keep a brilliant numbers book full of numbers that we have previously demanded but when we get to "the counter of NO" its amazingly no item record

However under the new "Lean" demands cell, you won't have to leave your office to be told No! Isn't that progress!

 

[goatblower]

ahhh FED LOG....have you looked up 'knickers, wraf, large'.......bring back the 1086!!!

 

[Billy Whizz]

ahhh FED LOG....have you looked up 'knickers, wraf, large'.......bring back the 1086!!!

Thought that was Day 1 of Techie training.

 

[twotter]

Being an old fart these days my memory isn't what it was but I know we never ran out of squash balls. They were (are?) an item used on Tristars and were easy to get hold of, especially at St Athan, which wasn't exactly a hot bed for Tristar activity

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Here's one for all you dunkers....

8940-99-2119800 COOKIES CHOCOLATE CHIP

Demand a box today...lovely!DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Fablon biff chit]

Here's one for all you dunkers....

8940-99-2119800 COOKIES CHOCOLATE CHIP

Demand a box today...lovely!DT_Xtremez_14:

With a 56 day tranist time, they'll be inedible here in the sandpit

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

With a 56 day tranist time, they'll be inedible here in the sandpit

I believe that if you have a Nimrod det co-located with you you can go state for food items. The RAF doesn't want those pie-munching 'mighty hunter' types wasting away.

DT_Xtremez_15:

 

[Stax]

Sorry off thread but, the bird on the Diamond car insurance advert, she'd get it!

 

[dantura]

Sorry off thread but, the bird on the Diamond car insurance advert, she'd get it!

Agreed, If she didn't open her mouth!


...well, for talking that isDT_Xtremez_15:



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