its an old engineering apprentice jape - sending the wet behind the ears apprentice to the stores for a floggle pin remover, storeman then engages them in 10 minutes of intense questioning as to what typpe of floggle pins they want to remove before sending them back empty handed to get more information. Five minutes of verbal abuse ensues on the return of the hapless apprentice to the workshop before being told to go back and tell the storeman to stop messing around and just give him the *******ing floggle pin remover and to to be quick about it as we can't wait all day. Apprentice returns to stores and starts throwing his weight about only for the storeman to rip him a new * and telling him to go away and come back when he has a civil tongue in his head. A good team can keep this up all day before it dawns on the witless apprentice that he is once again the butt of the joke.
Arthur