Keep Pucks Camp Bastion 2014

[Phill Lockett]

Hi friends

Would any collector veteran ID this from Camp Bastion 2014?

This is velcro backed.

Maybe cockney slang?

Phill

[Phil2M]

Twig is a nickname for an ice hockey stick. I doubt they had much ice in Bastion.

Maybe in this case it is an innuendo?

[Luke H]

As an east ender I can promise you it isn’t Cockney rhyming slang.

[Phill Lockett]

Thanks guys

Thought it could of been of British origin.

Thanks for the input.

Phill

[Phil2M]

I reckon its Canadian

[Phill Lockett]

Thanks Phill

Found this article so likely to do with Canadian Hockey!

Boardwalk KAF 2010

https://www.stripes.com/news/hockey-...roblem-1.98725

Phill

[Shiny]

Twig was also slang for a radio antenna.

Michael

[peter monahan]

I'd never heard it - don't follow ice hockey anymore, Canadian though I am - but, yes, apparently 'twig' means 'hockey stick'. That plus 'puck' makes it pretty definitely a hockey reference and therefore, most probably a Canadian [strictly unofficial] patch. Another translation might be 'Keep My S*** Together All Day Long'.

[Phill Lockett]

Thanks for all your comments friends.

Looking more likely Canadian and a novelty patch.

I do like Peter's interpretation which is very plausible as I do have US novelty patches with similar sayings.

I should add this might be from BAF and not Camp Bastion.

Phill

[Fatboy Ken]

I lived in Canada for a few years, and it's definitely Canadian Slang:

A PUCK is the Rubber item used in Ice Hockey;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck

Next, A Twig is, as mentioned, the Hockey Stick used in "Ice Hockey"

It is very important for a hockey player to keep his puck on the end of his stick to be able to play the game.

So, ..... Read it as it says, ......

"We are keeping on top of our game"

[Phill Lockett]

Thanks Kenny boy

Good Canadian novelty slang for Canadian forces in AFG.

cool

Phill

[peter monahan]

Originally Posted by Fatboy Ken

It is very important for a hockey player to keep his puck on the end of his stick to be able to play the game.
"We are keeping on top of our game"

The related Canadian saying is 'Keep your stick on the ice!' - stay focused on the puck + 'high sticking' brings a penalty if the ref thinks it's deliberate.

My favourite use of this phrase, though, was one I heard at a PeeWee game. 6 and 7 year old players whose coach kept shouting 'Keep your stick on the ice!' and remarked to me that most of his team needed 'three points of contact' with the ice 'to stay vertical'.