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  1. left fuel tap."I remember the time my teeth went missing,"pope.gif.a0ee153f3a9c0283b6cacaf154799f67.gif said........

    ........the Man In The Gold Epaulettes. "It was just before the last meeting, and I was trying to think where they were when......"

     

    For any Catholics out there, Loxie seems to be implying that the Pope has no teeth, and that may well be the case before Father Bob's finished with him.

     

     

  2. left fuel tap."I remember the time my teeth went missing,"pope.gif.a0ee153f3a9c0283b6cacaf154799f67.gif said........

    ........the Man In The Gold Epaulettes. "It was just before the last meeting, and I was trying to think where they were when......"

     

    For any Catholics out there, Loxie seems to be implying that the Pope has no teeth, and that may well be the case before Father Bob's finished with him.

     

     

  3. "The airline's chief executive, Alan Joyce, said the tickets, valued at $20 million, were Qantas's way of saying "we are sorry".



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Qantas also will offer a bonus to all Frequent Flyer members, though Mr Joyce says the airline has not finalised exact details.



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The flights giveaway brings to $50 million the total cost of the grounding, including about $30 million for the two days that flights were cancelled."



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    - Melbourne Herald Sun



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The giveaway is $20 million. Compare that with the weekly losses before Alan Joyce brought it to a head.



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The result of a big spend now rather than sucking their thumbs is going to be that most of the disgruntled passengers will be gruntled.



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    You don't think that's a wise business decision?



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  4. FH: I have ridden Japanese motorcycles all my life. That is where I got into the thinking that "Hit the button and go" makes a lot more sense than tearing down the Ducati, just to check that the rings are still ok.Once upon a time aviation was the cutting edge of technology.

    Fair enough answer.

     

     

  5. ..... were manufactured while people watched the pods of grampus swim past, as one little tacker said "Is that correct grammar, Grampa?"

    Grampa was eating his gramma, which he preferred in a soup, and said "It is, if it has a stiff ...............

    "P, but never after T".

     

     

  6. I was going to say nearly the same thing. The aircraft all but flew into a safety net on this particular occasion, but of a key part of the space frame had hit one of the heavier duty parts of the ferris wheel, the there may have been frame crush. If the ferris wheel hadn't been there and the aircraft had hit the trunk or a large bough of one of the trees reported to be in the background there would have been much greater deflection.

     

    The deceleration effect from what did bend in both structures was more likely to be what saved their lives, by preventing brain crush.

     

    What you could say with this crash though is that in this instance the space frame may have saved some more extensive crushing on the way in.

     

     

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