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Unfortunate Names
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frostbite » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:45 pm
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I was introduced to a lady named Phoebe today.
The name always makes me chuckle inwardly as we had a girl blessed with the name Phoebe Beaby in my...
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Bill Anker You have to wonder why his parents hated him so much at the Christening. Like Richard Head (RAF Herc driver).
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Last post by Boac
Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:36 pm
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Ecclesiastical Duties
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G~Man » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:41 pm
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Some know, others do not, but I am ordained in the Church of The Latter Day Dude .....or more commonly refered to as a Dudesit Priest .
Church of...
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They all look like fun, G~Man, as they should do.
Re weddings & funerals, when I first started selling my woodwork, many of the boxes were wedding...
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:42 am
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Major Owie From a Wedgie
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:05 pm
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Disney sued over ‘severe’ injuries allegedly caused by ‘wedgie’ from water slide
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is facing a lawsuit related to an...
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It is amazing how dangerous some of these parks are.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:49 pm
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Has this site just gone to sleep or is it dying?
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:16 pm
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I like this place but it sure has gone quiet these days...
We need more life here...
If I am wrong...
Bugger it... wake up!
UHL
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The fact that I couldn't get my printer to print just paled into insignificance.
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Last post by 1DC
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:16 pm
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The Sphere
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:02 pm
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Las Vegas’ Sphere venue debuted this weekend with concerts by U2. Here’s what it was like
Vegas Baby!
If there weren't enough ways to blow money...
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First U2 had The Edge, and now they have The Sphere! Is there no end to the cosmic geometry of this band?
Could it be that The Edge has become The...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:23 pm
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Kevin Costner Prince of Thieves iconic tree cut down.
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G-CPTN » Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:17 pm
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Living in Tynedale, just a few miles from 'the Sycamore tree in the Roman Wall gap', this is a local issue, yet interest is national and also...
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Unfortunately
No good deed goes unpunished. ~X(
PP
Just as well he didn't plant any more trees, as Sheffield council might have sent a...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:17 pm
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John Hill's Ashburton Aviation Museum DC3
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:27 pm
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As mentioned by John Hill in the link above. Some good photo's on the Facebook page Mr Hill mentioned in the link above...
AshburtonDC3.JPG...
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One of my friends, now departed, told me how his Corsair had a propeller hitch when his flight was departing for the end of war ferry flight from a...
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Last post by John Hill
Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:52 am
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The Fox Hunt
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OFSO » Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:21 pm
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Where is Fox Three? Sadly missed..
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Ach zu!
So I see that some potential doppelganger, perhaps masquerading as the Fox, has appeared on the site, and that the denizens of this site,...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:19 am
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Chemtrails
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OFSO » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:42 pm
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My house lies under the N to S track of aircraft flying from Europe to Africa over the Begur beacon (112.20 BGR). Just before lunch today, within a...
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I may have missed some out...I leave it to the other weather fundis here to add to the list...
You omitted cirrus flatulatus
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Last post by Hydromet
Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:14 pm
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Re Link Trainer project.
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John Hill » Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
We are now trying to get the software sorted before final assembly so that someone can climb in as soon as the paint is dry.
I want to use the four...
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Last post by John Hill
Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
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Progress on 2023 Subs
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admin2 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:23 am
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Thanks to all responders - going well, but a possible 22 'non-responders' leaving us on 29th! (That's site notice, posts and PMs)
Hopefully not.
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Sub sent this PM.
The Ancient Mariner
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Last post by Rossian
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:37 pm
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Proctor Adventure
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John Hill » Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:59 pm
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ProctorInFlight.jpg
I was going to post an article about this aircraft(?) but have not found a way to do it, .ODT file of about seven pages. :( I...
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Jean Batten flew a Percival Gull from England to NZ in 1936 setting a world record and in a time that would not be bettered for a solo flight for 40...
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Last post by John Hill
Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:43 pm
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Unforgettable
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Karearea » Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:24 am
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For me, so far, and omitting family milestones and sentimental occasions:
Looking for and finding Halley's Comet, naked-eye visible, low to the...
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The sight of the Concorde coming in low over Zoo Lake Swimming pool while it was undergoing hot and high trials at Jan Smuts airport. Everybody in...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:18 am
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Last post by Boac
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:23 pm
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The coolest accents...
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OneHungLow » Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:35 pm
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I have aways been partial to the New Zealand accent, which is even slacker with regard to diphthongs than my Capetonian slackness would ordinarily...
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We used to have a card carrying communist deliver the frozen shift meals to our oil terminal. He was hilarious from the midlands very excitable and...
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Last post by 1DC
Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:35 pm
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Train Crash in Aberdeenshire...
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:22 pm
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‘Serious Injuries’ and fire as ScotRail train crashes near Stonehaven
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Network Rail guilty of safety failings over crash that killed three
Company admitted it didn’t impose an emergency speed restriction or warn the...
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Last post by FD2
Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:09 am
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:46 pm
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Disreputable bars that you have enjoyed...
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:14 am
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No, I am not necessarily talking about the Whiplash Bar at the Karl Lagerfeld bondage dungeons in Bremerhaven. I was apt to think of Pete's Bar on...
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The old 'long bar' in the old Chevron hotel. Out the back doorled to a demoltion ground, and you could pretty much buy anything there.
I once...
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Last post by EA01
Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:42 am
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Jimmy Buffet, dead at 76
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EA01 » Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:40 am
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So sad, loved the carefree beach bum lie in a state of 'Margarittaville'......
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Per obit on his website it was Merkel Cell Skin Cancer that took him.
Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare type of skin cancer that usually appears...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Sun Sep 03, 2023 3:21 pm
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Law Enforcement Behaving Badly
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PHXPhlyer » Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:03 pm
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Delaware man who police blocked from warning of speed trap wins $50K judgment
After Jonathan Guessford raised a middle finger at troopers while...
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Well done Mr Guessford.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:53 pm
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What was he thinking?
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OneHungLow » Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:19 pm
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Any other examples, aviation wise or not where one might ask what was he/she thinking?
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Aka the scream liner, for those of us living under LHR departures.
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:15 am
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Last post by limeygal
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:43 am
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Strong winds blew my balls off
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OFSO » Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:27 pm
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One of the large concrete balls topping our five gateposts was blown off last week during gale-force winds and ended up twelve foot below in the...
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In the Australian outback, it gets so cold it would blow the walls off a bark humpy.
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:12 am
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You know you are getting old when...
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OneHungLow » Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:08 pm
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Your good friend accuses you of going senile when he mentions some bloke in your class in 1977, and you say you can't remember the dude, and...
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....when all four chairs in the optician's waiting area are occupied and a young lass in one of them offers you her seat. ^:)^
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:50 pm
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Tourists Behaving Badly
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:29 pm
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Tourists arrested for spraying soccer graffiti on 460-year-old Italian landmark
Not again! Yet another Italian historic landmark has been...
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Yellowstone visitor charged after going off trail in thermal area and burning himself
The famed national park routinely warns its millions of...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:59 am
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