Captain

hope this doesnt come with hendra virus...Those media peopel keep going on about how you shouldnt touch a bat if its on the ground........Beings as he was a smart guy, as compared to a fence post, he wondered if on the bed was the same as on the ground....... The urge! overcame any sense of self preservation, he mutter ah F&ckit and then proceeded to..........

....perform as usual .................................. and do what Batgirl told him to do."

"What are you two doing?" asked Henrietta Hendra.

"G'day HH" replied Locksley, while on the job, "This is better than reciting my 9 times tables while I wait for Batgirl, so what are you doing here, in the ................

Personally I strongly believe that we have insufficient info to form any view, our greatest concern other than the tactical removal of the ability to register aircraft, is the lack of communications to members. If our concerns are true, and they are! how can we know why things are as they are and therefore how can anyone talk of motions to remove anyone at this time?

So how can the members know the details of what is going on when some Board Members can't find out either.

The 1st part of the Feb 9th meeting will almost certainly be a question and answer session, then reviews to sort out what answers are correct.

And as of last night, the written legal opinion from Porters Lawyers on the Runciman resignation/reinstatement has still not been provided to all members of the Board. So that needs to be sorted out too.

In my opinion there is a lot to be learnt on Feb 9th before the members in attendance have the data that they need to make considered decisions.

Regards Geoff

For Robin of Locksley had, verily, been super quiet as he lurked around the forums (fora?) in preparation for his tomorrow big Saturday lie in, where he intends to mimic the 12-incher if Robin's heart is up to it.

Robin thought a little, bought Mrs Locksley a Batgirl suit, rubbed his hands together and said "....................

if the board gets kicked out as it seems that everyone wants to do who is going to run raagetting sick and tired of all this crap I thought this forum was about flying and not attacking the board every 2nd post

I haven't seen any plans by anyone to "Kick out the Board". Where did you dredge that up from?

Steve Runciman has mentioned that in an email and you have put it forward here.

I predict that the members in attendance on Feb 9th will give the Board and the other members in attendance a fair hearing and then take some action at the Feb 9th meeting or at Natfly.

Re attacks on the Board, if you don't want to be part of that discussion when members are concerned after the RAA's entire reason for being was removed by CASA and members are worried, then don't visit the Governing Bodies section of the Forum. There are plenty of other threads for you to play in.

If anyone else has received one of these please speak up... This is VERY serious if OUR money was used to do this.

But all is fair, and hang the expense, in Middo's grubby grab for proxies.

And the Feb Magazine is on the way at the same time. I know someone who already has it.

This is a shocking abuse of power ...... and member's funds.

For the record I have not be been consulted or new of the letter on the raa web site. I will comment further when in front of my computer.

What Jim has posted here was also confirmed by John McK in his recent note to the members in his region.

For the record I have not be been consulted or new of the letter on the raa web site. I will comment further when in front of my computer.

Thanks for posting.

To All RAA Members

How can the Secretary send a letter which is soliciting proxies for all Board Members without telling all Board Members?

That is bizarre .............. but typical of the way that the Executive operated on a number of issues over recent years, when they then informed the Board if they feel inclined or need a retrospective approval.

If Middo was as good at administering RAA as he is at playing the shifty proxy politics around the Feb 9th meeting, perhaps RAA wouldn't be in the mess that it is.

And wait until you read Steve R's sickly piece in the next magazine. He welcomes members having a say, he is the great communicator and he looks forward to Feb 9th. Yet we know time after time where he doesn't allow some Board Members to have a say and he does not follow due process at that level.

Regards Geoff

well get up on your soap box and open up and tell everyone what you and your group intend to do now (before the meeting)and into the future,

I'll have a crack at telling you what I intend to do at the meeting.

I intend to ensure that the meeting achieves exactly what was stated in the requisition, being:

As required by Rule 23 (iii) (a) of the constitution the purpose of the meeting has been stated as being for:

1. The Board Executive and Board Members to give an account to the Members of their stewardship of the Association.

2. The Board to inform the Members how the current state of affairs was arrived at and what plans the Board has to ensure RA-Aus is never again so challenged.

3. Questions from the floor of the Board Executive and Board Members.

4. Motions from the floor to be considered, debated and voted.

And I will make up my mind on what actions I consider are best for RAA based on the above.

But a caviat on that is that this Executive and Board have, in my considered opinion, managed the RAA poorly on a number of matters on which I (for one) intend to question them at the Feb 9th meeting, including but not limited to CASA removing the RAA's Charter, which after all is RAA's sole reason for being in existance and for us being members.

Now if you or others can't attend the meeting, that is regretable, but if you can't find someone that you trust with your instructions for the application of your Proxy, well that is a shame and is totally your call.

Those are issues associated with a national organisation and the constitution that we have.

HOWEVER, if you don't attend and don't choose to arrange your proxy then your defacto position is that you are, in fact, accepting the status quo and you are choosing to allow RAA to continue along its present path with the present Executive, Board Member and systems doing what they have always done ...... or you are relying on the members who do attend or provide a proxy to make the decisions for you. That is your call but I, for one, can't see how any informed member can allow the present situation to continue when these guys have limped from management and governance disaster to disaster for a few years now, the latest being this fiasco with the recruitment of the new GM.

If you can't exercise your vote some way then that is unfortunate, but I urge all other members to attend if they can, to hear & evaluate what is said, then respond as they see fit.

Regards Geoff

TO ALL NES CONTRIBUTORS,

I am not sure that you all appreciate just how widely read the NES is, or how famous are the Turbid Plunger and AhgetyourRoxOff.

On returning from the bike races at Phillip Island yesterday, your devoted Rodent did a double take about half way back to Wagga X 2 when he saw the signpost to the town of Locksley and then, not long after say the sign beside the expressway naming Tubb Hill.

Your servant, The Rat, can only assume that these locations have been renamed in honour of our associates for Australia Day and the NES is being widely read by central Mextorians.

And I'm buggered if I know why Ita got the gong as skippy of the year when the 12-incher made himself available for selection. (That's like leaving Mike Hussey out of the one day side).

Regards Ratty

Just checked with my mate.He's heard nothing since he spoke to them on the 17th. Hasn't received a copy of the Job Description.

This is another activity where the Executive have made a hash of it and RAA continues from stuff-up to stuff-up and is more of a laughing stock than before.

What more simple indication is there that this Executive and some on the Board simply just aren't up to the task.

They might be the nicest and best meaning volunteers in the world, but if they don't have the skills to get this done with reasonable professionalism, then what are they doing there?

Or is this recruiting fiasco perhaps just so that they can shoehorn another of their mates into the job without proper process, same as they did with Tizzard?

Or perhaps they will blame one of the hard working permanent staff members again.

This is like watching the death & destruction of this once proud association by a thousand cuts.

Regards Geoff

....better to use Testicultra tha Craptus for coverage in the out back. Just ask Nobu who has............

..... the coverage of a ............

....serve sauteed onions with a side of cheap blended scotch. Which in my opinion is worth more than double what Tub's opinion is of Rat's hair product choices.

"I know all about hair products" said Mavis "Have a look at this hair removal gel Ratty, it is just what you need for....

....... a clean look "down there".

"I am already that way" commented e Paulette, who is from Brazil, so "Obrigardo to yez all". (She is called "e" Paulette as she is actually the 12 incher's internet girlfriend .... so yes, he is tragic, even with a footlong).

"I like being his imaginary "e" friend" said Paulette (who is actually a pimply 45 year old bloke from Tasmania (NTTIAWWT) who hasn't had a shower since he had his TIF with the Fakir "Because the footlong has sent me a couple of sext messages and I can vouch for the fact that it really is ...................

keen eye spot a half empty gin bottle protruding from Mavis's....

.... soft spot.

"Gin, whiskey or Drambuie, it matters not a jot" said Salty "As it all helps the fuglies, like El Ratsack (and E Paul Ette), to obtain the chance to procreate, which saves them from having to ..........

It was at this instance that there was a cry "Look, up in the sky, it's a ratstoof, no, its a gold ring, no, it's ....aw ****, it's Epaulette"Unfoot that women, you craven coward" demanded Epaulette

 

"Bugga orf" said BrianF " I want to know if.............

...... Scotch whisky is really living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy ............... and if so why does my ......................

..........and they all looked up to the sky and saw a flash of gold.Was that an epaulette, or was it.......................

..... the 12 inchers gold ring, the Rodent's tooth (but not close to the 12 incher's ring), a golden retriever, a member of the Gold Coast white shoe brigade, a gold membership of the RAA (for helping to save it), or one of Brian F's .....................

So Ratty thought too long and Planey beat him to the punch again.

.......but it had failed to self destruct like many little piles around Dandenong attributed to Salty, rightly or wrongly, but...............

.... Turps bitch-slapped him .................. just in case, and offered to fit Absinthe with one of his special possum skin thongs, with a skimpy top thong to cover her things, however Absinthe thaid "I don't thing thongs" and decided that it was her role to surplant Nanna in the NES, so she took Tubby by the ............

".... it's not an onion, it's an oneun" said Cointreau who knew a thing about oneuns."It is" said Nana disgustedly, wondering how a Frenchman could be contradicting her in an Australian conversation, even though he might be having a conversation from Paree while in fact being and Australian referring to a French vegetable.

 

Andy scoffed and said "However............

...... it doesn't matter how odious is the onion, ("Or the Frenchman" yelled Absinthe from outside Andy's joint), it pales into insignificance compared with the desperate and false-tto claims being made by a couple of sycophant Board Members who are both odious and ...........

But in fact Turbo had beaten the Rat up the drain pipe and was sitting there bemused, after being battered by a serial trash peddler beating down anyone's opinion which disagreed with his over FOURTEEN almost continuous posts only to receive sympathy and advice to the other posters that "everyone is entitled to his opinions"

"I'm of the opinion that that opinion, in my opinion could change the opinion of opinions" said Nobu, in perfect English, "and....................."

..... can anyone confirm for me that an opinion is one of those vegetables that that you cook and it goes clear in the early stages?"

"No" exrained Nanna "That's an onion .......... and I know something else that you can do with them too."

"Well, in that case I'm of the opinion that that onion, in my opinion could change the opinion about onions, as the 12 incher really knows his onions about that subject" said Nobu, in perfect English, "and..................

trying to come to grips with myself, because as you all know............

.... Mavis has a soft (and rather squishy) spot for our beloved Ratty to park his pushy in whenever he wants to.

"What chance does a hard working Rodent have" said Ratpoo "When we have computer literate a-holes like Eeeeen who know how to cut and paste and stuff like that (NTTIAWWT) and can make it look like Brine and Ratty dress in similar gear (they are not cross-dressers as they never do it when they are cross)"

"Why" continued our much admired ElRatoh "That makes me and Salty look much worse that AhChoo and the TurbidPlonker that time when they pulled that .......

Apply the clue bat liberally to mr Paullette. Who knows he said if i keep bashing a number or two might appear from Epi and thats a vast...........

... vastus medialis exercise which when used regularly will mke your flying suit bulge, thereby attracting both ladies and gentlemen (both teams, with which Brine is obviously well aquainted, not that there is anything wrong with that) and which go well with Salty's penchant for feathers (see photo of Salty below, taken at Natfly in 2012) when he had just started in the gym to exercise to increase the size of his ......

....Andy@coughsbl00dysmokinggonnakillmeoneday who was the mastermind behind the "Let's sink the SS Turbo with 400 dislikes" campaign.

Andy had tried to retain the services of George Negus and Yumi Stynes to run his campaign, but they had already been retained by the RA-Aus board in an attempt to....

...... explain and sustain the spin that all of the RAA's present malaise was caused by unthinking, unknowing members with an agenda to ...........

....bitch srapped out. "Jabiroos are...." he said, but received an immediate bitch slap from Mavis, who said "............................"

..... you shouldn't be jabbing roos, Turbo. Stick to possums & sheep, as they are easier to hold, they are prettier, and they ............

Le plume de ma tante wrote from out in the jardin "Apologies Andysh@ter, but you were too quick for moi with your last post"

....bitch slapped him, so I should be in with a chance to.....

.... hit him with my Pekinese."

"Me thinks Tubby is a bit pleoccupied with bitch srapping" said Nobu "Is that kinky or is he .............

..... as Plain Drivel had found again and again.he was a greenie, normally found up a tree with a chain round his neck.

 

Even on extreme bushfire days he stuck to his principles, and on one occasion a bushfire had engulfed several square hectares, and although the Drivel's tree was in the middle of it, it was mysteriously untouched.

 

But he paid a price.

 

He fingernails and toe nails had adapted to climbing trees, becoming pointed, like a koala's

 

And his skin became blotchy and a pale yellow, like a ghost gum.

 

Thinking the blue pills migh change his complexion to human, he found that instead.................

...... he looked like a possum, but with blue fur and a smurf hat that was rigid.

"There's a temptation ..... and where is my gun?" said Turbo, who saw a pair of blue G-strings (with a white codpiece) in his next wardrobe.

"I reckon it's a temptation too, as Planey looks hot" said Mavis "Because I have never ................

....do grace [bitchslap] to nana's [old] wrinkled [dislike] radish [useful].....

..... and once seen, would make Nanna call the the 12 incher "Stumpy", because Captain Rodent's stalagmite is ..............