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Old 11-10-2007, 01:33 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Malteser...Malta...mmm...sorry...
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Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.
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Malteser...Malta...mmm...sorry...
Heathen! Lovely chocolate:

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But they have to have been in the fridge first
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Old 11-10-2007, 01:46 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Yep, have eaten a pack in record time on several occasions. Addictive little suckers.
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Old 11-10-2007, 01:47 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Malteser...Malta...mmm...sorry...
Speaking of bouncing balls.
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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Love it, Geoff!
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I now have an image of Kitty chasing after them as they bounce along the floor
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And as she's chasing them, she's saying "l-e-f-t, l-e-f-t, steady, steady..."

Okay, that doesn't make sense since she's chasing them after they've been dropped but...
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Oh, I thought she was giving herself instructions - you normally know when she's approaching because you can hear "left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.......and so on"



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Nice knowing you, Kyt!

Always reminds me of The 12th Man by Billy Birmingham, the spoof on Aussie cricket commetating. I can never remember who he imitates but he basically says, "Yes, he's got a lovely action...left foot, quickly followed by the right foot, then the left foot again and the right in quick succession..."

And my favourite:
"Oh look out, Merv's (Merv Hughes) mooning the crowd"
"And they're mooning him back. Whoa, look at all the cracks opening up there, Tony, get your keys out." (referring to Tony Greig sticking his keys in the cracks on the pitch to determine its condition).
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Cheers Andy. I think I may be allowed to live but will probably be in a lot of pain.

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