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Easy fellas; I married one of those señoritas once and I'm still paying for it....

Other than that, a great thread Ian. Please keep posting when you can.

Well, this is a blast from the past, isn't it? Looking back, it seems I thought I was an agnostic when I started this thread.

Sorry, WofH, I'm afraid there really is no such place as Heaven,...

Well, I confess I haven't heard of those 'advanced function' lenses. But I had both eyes done with what I've always thought were fixed focal-length lenses about three years ago. (I think we have a...

"The world would be better off without religion."

Of course. How could any sensible person suppose otherwise?

In the early 70s I built a long one-level house on a slab down the slope at Mt Eliza, necessitating a considerable cut at the top of the house with concomitant fill at the lower end. This meant...

"Scot Bell Rocks"

Of course he does. I thought everyone knew that. :)

I think that's the crux of the matter, Ian.

What absolutely astounds me is that the English know full-well of this possibility (who doesn't?) -- Sweden has already "rendered" several individuals...

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Well, who is Rebecca Hagelin? What is she? Why is she sticking her nose into other people's business? She's clearly a Republican. Is she a Tea Party member? Or just an arrant Southern, so-called...

"January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

February's ice and sleet,
Freeze the toes right off your feet.

Welcome, March, with wint'ry wind,
Would thou weren't not...

A few years ago I predicted that the Australian dollar would reach parity with the US dollar before very much longer. Although it took more time than I thought, and despite the scoffing of one or two...

I believe it's called the 'Harvard comma' in the US. I always use it -- though I went to neither Oxford nor Harvard. I was taught to put a comma in, in a sentence, wherever you'd put a brief pause if...

A bit more thread drift. My father, a scholarly and gentlemanly chap, absolutely floored me when he came out with this when I was in my teens --

A policeman from Tottenham Junction
Who developed...

Scott, leaving Amanda Knox to one side, and however my defence of Assange might come across to you, it is not a "knee-jerk anti-American rant" I assure you. Nor is it inspired by "Aussie chauvinism"...

Well Scott, we agree about most things boaty, but we clearly don't agree about Wikileaks and freedom of information. You've had a pretty solid go at Assange here, and I take issue with a good deal of...

What is it about Yanks and guns? Chuck would be one of the few I'd trust with a gun these days, but I'm not so sure even about him twenty years ago....

By and large, are guns penis substitutes...

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Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, Johnno. A great ten-year photographic history.

As to when the Forum started, I'm not sure now. But I am sure my 'join' date was about 1998 (earlier than it...

Hh'mmm. Sounds just like our uber-right-wing Opposition Leader....

But perhaps this post should be in the Oz Politics thread?

Yep. And not only that, but IQ tests are notoriously culturally-biased. There's an excellent chance that a US test would be failed by many Aussies, and an Aussie test would be failed by many Yanks. ...

AND don't forget, with Tiff there, you've got the brains trust with you.

I haven't seen Carina since January and I have no idea when or whether I'll ever see her again, but I saw my two other...

It's just because the dot art you disparage is genuine Aboriginal artwork that it's so much copied in "touristy" products.... :rolleyes:
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Ah.... Henley-on-Todd, eh? :) I can't say I blame him.
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No particular offence intended, but I always understood that Thanskgiving had something to do with the eradication of the Native American population from New England. Is that something to be...

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Thanks Wayne.

No reason why I couldn't have looked that up meself, was there? :rolleyes: Dumpkopf.

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A propos of nothing in particular, I've always understood that the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was renamed Cape Kennedy after JFK's death. Assuming this is correct, what I would like to know...

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I can't say I don't agree with Vince. But as a notorious former Prime Minister of ours once said, "Life wasn't meant to be easy."

It's my considered opinion, at the ripe old age of 63, that by...

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You're a real sweetheart, Spin-Drift. Thanks so much for your support.
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...but of course the hook will soon no doubt extend itself right off the tin bit, and then you'll have infinite extension. I think I'd better let you have Kirsty's broomstick back, hadn't I? (I know...

And a damned good one, too. Thank you for it.

I've written her letters with that sort of content over the last few years that have mostly been returned unopened, so I've given up on that now...

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I would have said a couple of years less in each case. But the thought of those broom-stick boathooks of yours so shocked my brain at the time that maybe I'm misremembering. :)
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Thanks, Aulikki. Indeed it is very sad. But at least I can console myself with the thought that I did what I could about it (to the point where I'm very nearly broke,) so I won't later be able to...

Thanks for your sensitive comments, Norman.

It's not something I talk about very much, and I was tempted to answer you privately. But I guess I'm over it enough now to share it with other Forum...

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And from a letter in today's Daily Telegraph about the pirates comes this jewel --

"SIR, When the world's navies have overcome the problem and captured the ringleaders, what will be done with...

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A rather special picture, for me, of me and my three girls taken about seven years years ago.

Special because Suse (left) has for the first time in ten years been free of any symptoms of...

Absolutely. And it actually shows they're running scared, I think. What if Obama reminds them, later on, of the fact that his Dad was actually a Muslim? Frightening stuff if you're Al-Quaeda, trying...

I think this is about right. You would perhaps use a proper dip compass in geology or even in hydrography, but you wouldn't use one in normal navigation. A standard horizontal-pivotting card can...

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I have to say I agree with entirely with the position stated in Greg's post at #38. Society does have the right to protect itself inter alia from idiots with high-powered speedboats. (I won't even...

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I agree entirely.

Moreover, I happen to think that a hell of a lot of those "Victorian" values that Kipling espoused aren't actually confined to the Victorian, or any other, period at all --...

Yes, we had a similar problem with our new decimal coins when they were first issued, in that the 20c and 50c coins were both circular, both silver-coloured, and much the same size. (The 50c had a...

So have we. Both our $1 and then $2 notes went out years (like, decades) ago. The coins are a sort-of gold colour, but they're definitely not gold and nor is there any gold in them.

And they...

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Now why don't you tell Ian what you really think, Mr Smalser?
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My understanding is that this is still on the cards.
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As someone who's had cataract operations in both eyes, I truly feel for your friend in her predicament, Jack.

N, you have my very best wishes.
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I was sitting on an interview panel in one of our largest government departments this morning. We'd done two interviews and were just starting the third when the PA broke in to announce it was...

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I didn't much like the way Helen got in nine years ago, but now that she's gone I don't know whether to be happy or not. (On the other hand, it's nice to see that Winston's done his dash.)

So,...

Yes, isn't it? Even better with the monogram on the pocket though --
http://www.woodenboatfittings.com.au/public/chuck-007.jpg

Actually, I think I like this one the best (I like the grin) --
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A few weeks ago some of were talking about depression, and I mentioned an Australian site called Beyond Blue, which gives advice primarily about depression and primarily to men, (although it also...

Well, blow me down. As from one Middle Ages Man to another, I can say that I studied some of Cattell's stuff once. Now I can also say that I know a chap who knew a girl who was Cattell's...

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Ah.... autoresponders....
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Good one, Ian.

You did all the work while Bazza was getting his payoff, right? :)
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Yes, I remember all that stuff in the US -- from here in Australia. I remember the desegregation riots, and the way those terrified little kids were bussed in to "white" schools to force the issue...