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22-01-2008, 09:00 PM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Quote:
Thought exactly that about the flag. I have been pushing on that basis for quite a while and Lee is looking into it. Knowing who you are talking to and where they are from is quite important.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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I am a highland Scot and proud of it. Unfortunately the Mods have not got a national flag for me yet. |
22-01-2008, 10:40 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Despite Owen's mistake, his comment re centuries still applies...LOL.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  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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22-01-2008, 10:47 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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22-01-2008, 11:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Not at all, Spidgeman. I haven't mentioned the Ashes at all...
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp 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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23-01-2008, 01:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Did you notice the headlines that went with the BBC's coverage of the funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary? From the BBC reporter: Quote:
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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23-01-2008, 04:27 PM
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You're Top Poster: #12 | Gentlemen's games! I have always pondered about this gentlemen’s game they call cricket. Why do seemingly sane people pay good money to watch a gentleman (bowler) walk miles up the park (slowly) then comes tearing down said park at a rate of knots, then throws this ball at another gentleman with a bat who then taps the ball into the ground and the whole boring process starts again.  Anyone?Regards Hugh
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23-01-2008, 04:36 PM
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You're Top Poster: #8  | Congratulations Hugh (I smiled at your being English!). I can't bear watching cricket either. The "sport" I really cannot understand though is fishing. Why not just sit on the riverbank (canal??? smelly artificial lake!!!!) and read, or whatever?
__________________ Regards CTNana Last edited by CTNana; 23-01-2008 at 04:39 PM. Reason: Senior moment!!! Forgot to congratulate Hugh! |
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23-01-2008, 05:41 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Nana, I have to deal with fisherman, and work with an avid fisherman/fishing teacher. believe me, you do not know a fraction of the obsession. Cricket? Should be played by Cheshire Rules: There are no rules 
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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23-01-2008, 06:22 PM
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You're Top Poster: #12 | Thank you Nana, Funnily enough I can't stand fishing either. For my two friends in Oz, we have a man's game up here in the highlands called shinty, there are no prisoners taken in this game. There is a referee but I am not quite sure why he turns up! Howzat!Regards Hugh
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24-01-2008, 05:51 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | It's okay Hugh, I can understand the lack of interest in cricket when Scotland will never win the World Cup... Never heard of shinty. Please explain!
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