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Why bother with sending emails to users that haven't been into the site for some time? 50% of those users would be scammers who registered to try and infiltrate the site, the other 50% would be broken down into 20% who registered and promptly lost interest, 20% who have changed their interests, and 10% who are deceased.

.... the inhabitants all have six fingers, and only three surnames amongst the 4066 inhabitants - thus explaining why Cappy can count to 12 so quickly.

But Cappy still insists he has Hawaiian ancestry, and this is possibly backed by the fact that he kisses everyone on the cheeks, hugs everyone when saying goodbye - and uses "mauka" and "makai" instead of cardinal points of the compass when giving directions - even when in an aircraft. He also refers to anyone in his region as an aunt, uncle, or cousin.

Despite all this.....

What type of horse is a nightMARE?

 

Actually, the word "nightmare" comes from ancient folklore and writings, where a malicious entity rides on the dreamers chest while they're sleeping.

The word "mare" has its roots in the Proto-Indo-European "mer", meaning a "crushing, pressing, or oppressive force".

I think we've probably all experienced the nightmare of having a heavy weight on our chests, I'm not sure of the exact physical/psychological reasons behind it, but I believe it's some form of sleep paralysis.

I find the easiest way to quote, is to highlight the sentence you want to respond to, copy it, paste it into your message box - then just add the basic quote/end quote HTML code each end, which is [ quote ] and [ / quote] (with no gaps).

I can recall reading a story about a bloke in England, who kept dreaming of horses winning, and their names. He got a bit bothered by it, and decided he would see if they meant anything.

Every time he dreamt about a winning horses name, as soon as he woke up, he jotted down the name he'd dreamt (they were clear and specific).

So he went along to the local racetrack, and placed bets on the name he'd dreamt.

Sure enough, he won on betting on that horses name. Chuffed, he kept writing the names down as he dreamt them, and kept betting on those names. He kept winning - sizeable amounts in some cases.

Then, after about a period of about 3 years of dreaming winning horse names, and placing bets and winning on those names, the winning horse name dreams stopped - just as suddenly as they'd started!

Quite a curious case, and the bloke kept all the records to prove what he'd done - but he couldn't ever figure out why it was just that specific period of about 3 yrs that he dreamt all those winning numbers.

He did have one more major win from dreaming a winning horses name, about 9 yrs later.

He'd never dreamt any winning name or number, nor even had any kind of sizeable lottery or raffle win in his life, previously - nor after, apparently. A good Ripleys Believe it or Not case.

EDIT - I found the story, some of the details are a little different to what I recalled, but this is the bloke and his winning dreams story.

http://www.ukpsychics.com/realm/the_man_who_dreamed_of_horse_race_winners.html

.....being the slippery customer he is, The Rat has now managed to free himself from the trap, and burn all the copies of the book, so there's no trace of anything that was written.

"Heee Heee Hee", chortled The Rat, "They tried to blame it all on me, but everyone knows my middle name is Teflon, nothing sticks to me!!"

Just then, some men in white coats turned up, and grabbed The Rat. "Whoa!! What's going on??", he cried. "I'm not going with youse lot!! (note his use of "youse", showing that The Rat has been associating with criminals, and jails, too).

"Oh yes, you are!!", cried the men in white coats. "We've been given orders to have you certified! You've been behaving strangely enough, for long enough, to raise suspicions in many official quarters!"

"This is a travesty!!", squeaked The Rat. "I'll have you know, I.....

....... cockpit risks were measured. From now on, any of Turbs books would banned from being carried in aircraft, as they pose a significant threat to piloting abilities.

Worse than any level of alcohol, it was now considered that reading any more than 2 pages of any of Turbs books would rate as the equivalent of consuming 2 casks of cheap wine, and thereby render any pilot semi-conscious.

"No getting home if you carry a Turbo Tome" became the safety catch-cry. The HF Czar was mightily pleased, he'd found another reason for his existence.

Meantimes, there was still concern about Cappys state of mind, with his constant recognition of phallic symbols in everything he laid eyes on.

"Did you see the size of the control column on that machine??", he said, as he oggled the phallic symbol standing proud from the floor of the new ultralight that had just landed.

"Cappy", said bull, "We're going to have to.....

Bex, time to invest in a multi-drill spindle head assembly.

http://www.drill-hq.com/products/multiple-heads/custom-heads/large-seven-spindle-rail-drill-head/

He probably took his eyes off the instruments for more than 3 seconds......

 

That's a fine example of a misquote designed to alter what was written. I wrote "three seconds too long". Extended distraction outside the cabin has been the cause of many a crash. The Grumman into Perth Water is a classic.

What do you call a midget psychic, who has escaped from prison?

A small medium at large!

Alice goes to see a fortune teller, who tells her - "Two men are madly in love with you!"

Alice asks, "Who will be the lucky one?"

The fortune teller says, "Michael will marry you, and Shaun will be the lucky one."

A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline. His Personal Psychic Advisor tells him, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl, who will want to know everything about you."

The frog is thrilled, "This is great! I might be turned into a Prince! Will I meet her at a party?"

"No," says the Advisor, "In her biology class."

The various States could have a sizeable number of the old Oshkosh P15 airport fire trucks for very little cost, to substantially upgrade their firefighting armoury.

These bad boys hold 23180 litres of water, and the cannon can propel the water for 100M. They do 90kmh on the road and can work in rough terrain.

The U.S. military have been selling these off as obsolete surplus, for at least 20 years that I know of (I can recall seeing them on the old DRMO website in 1999).

They were being sold for an absolute fraction of their replacement price, and like so many U.S. military assets, most had done very little work.

Do you want your kids in the forces flying around in beat up ex-fire fighting planes?

 

No, it's much better to have them flying around in military aircraft that have been thrown around the sky, trying to dodge enemy aircraft, AA fire, RPG's, Manpads, etc.

Remember when you couldn't get an AWC for any ex-military aircraft, no matter how hard you tried?

During the early part of WW2, the almost-new, International Harvester factory at Geelong, VIC, cut back on agricultural machines and parts production, so they could assemble a sizeable number of Fairey Battles.

The FB's were shipped in, largely disassembled in crates, and the IH factory workers re-assembled them, despite having no aircraft assembly experience. No doubt, experienced aircraft construction supervisors oversaw the work.

After all the FB's were assembled and flown out, the Americans moved in, and the factory workers were then used to assemble Kittyhawks.

The IH factory in Geelong also produced sizeable numbers of armaments, munitions, and a host of components for many of the machines of war, during WW2.

The workforce at IH trebled during 1940-1945 to around 1200 employees, and a sizeable percentage of those newer employees were women, as there was a dire shortage of able-bodied men available for factory work, during the War.

https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/a-diverse-state/north-shore-geelongs-boom-town-1920s-1950s/world-war-ii/

..... many RA aircraft are not wheelchair friendly, with no wheelchair access points, and this failure would have to be addressed, as a matter of urgency.

But Turbid Hawking was ejected from the seminar, because he threw one zoomie too many, and ran over the seminar directors toes. 

Right there, Turbid gained more immeasureable planetary knowledge, when he learnt that you have to, "be careful whose toes you run over, because they may be connected to the AXXXe you have to kiss tomorrow".

Meantimes, Cappy had gone looking for his high school yearbook photos, just to prove that he was built like a wrestler when he was 13 and hung like a donkey as well.

But unfortunately, all he could find was pics of a scrawny, weedy-looking kid with gangly arms and legs, and a gormless look - so he became convinced someone had stuffed the photos up, and he hadn't found out about it, before now.

Suddenly, bull from Bone spoke a few words - and when bull spoke, everyone listened carefully (mostly because he slurred his words a lot). "Whaddya reckon?", said bull, "We go and find these......

Bex - Do the payouts involve a certain number of pigs, and a handful of cowrie shells? I sometimes think the natives have fairer and more sensible compensation payouts, than we do in the Western world.

Welcome back, prodigal son! Turboplanner has the fattened calf, all we have to do is kill it, and BBQ it, for a welcome back feast. 

We as a relatively small (population/ tax base) country have a heavy investment in military assets, many of which could be used in fighting fires - why are they not ??

Good God, man - Have you taken leave of your senses?? These are mega-million dollar assets, we can't waste them and wear them out, doing such drudgery, as fighting civilian fires.

We need to keep them grounded, and wait until we have an opportunity to destroy them totally within an hour of launch, carrying out some noble war action.

The general unwashed public, Defence Heads, Politicians and all Public Servants, are in total agreement with this strategy, it's been that way since multi-million dollar military assets were invented.

Imagine the outcry if a very expensive piece of military hardware crashed whilst fighting Joe and Josette Smiths, Back-40 fire, that was threatening their dairy shed?? The ramifications would be enormous, and heads would roll. 

....started putting Muzzies offside.  Med went on, "As part of our plans to turn Australia into a Sharia-law country, we only want Muzzies involved in any major promotional work. Maggy Court is well-known for upsetting Muzzies with her religion, and we Muzzies have to ensure that there's only one religion and Law in Australia - the Law of ALLAH - Allahu-Akbar!!"

"Now, turning to your reputation at age 13. I'm sorry, there's little we can do to recover your standing as a person of civility and repute, after the reputation you gained at age 13.

I mean to say, getting the milkmans wife pregnant while he was out delivering milk is pretty poor form, but vandalising the neighbours house and torching their car, while they were away, was truly over the top.

But there is one way you may be able to redeem yourself, and that is by becoming a good Islamic scholar and studying the Quran so that you can put all evil thoughts aside, and become a good jihad. Are you in on it?".

Cappy replied, "You think I.....

It's O.K., he's still in the learning phase - and you need substantial and obvious physical warnings to other learners, who might be considering indulging in risky piloting behaviour. 

Turbo, I've read an article discussing how the Japanese economy recovered and prospered so well, and so rapidly, after being almost totally destroyed during WW2.

The article outlined how the Japanese economic recovery after WW2 was greatly assisted by the low numbers of Japanese lawyers, and the Japanese cultural tradition, that suing other Japanese for substantial compensation after accidents, was unacceptable, as it was detrimental to the economy, and to Japanese society as a whole.

But the "American Disease" of suing anyone you can, for whatever pathetic reason you can dredge up, has invaded Japan in recent years, and the older Japanese are apparently appalled by the trend.

Didn't he know coal is evil?

 

Well, in the 19th and early 20th century, it was what the world ran on, so I guess the words, "renewable options" would have been a bit of a mystery to him.

On that basis, Winston Churchill must have been an early leader amongst the CC true believers, when he ordered all the British Navy ships be converted from coal to oil, just before the start of WW1.

It's interesting to study the impact that decision had on world economies, as the coal industry suffered badly with that decision, and the oil and gas industries boomed.

Of course, there was one overwhelming reason to convert warships from coal to oil, and that was simply - increased speed.

.....switch sides and come out and disable the bomb - particularly if I pay him in cash, in a brown paper bag. "But then you have to figure out how to dispose of Acccchhhmed", said Onetrack.

"That's easy", said Cappy, "I'll just tell him there's going to be a Quran-burning event held by Fraser Anning on the North side of Brizzy, and he'll be off like a rocket to go blow himself up, as they light up the Quran!"

"That's a brilliant idea!", said the Turbs. "But we still have to deal with your obsession with phalluses and ejaculation, you're seeing them everywhere!"

"What a lot of rubbish", said The Rat. "But did you happen to see the shape of that bomb?? It's shaped just like a huge phallus! So that must be why, when a dropped bomb goes off, everyone watching says, "Well, that's FXXXXED 'em!!".

"Listen" said Turdboy, "We gotta get you to a decent Shrink, to try and fix this unnatural obsession you have, with phalluses and ejaculation and sex! - you're not 13 anymore!!"

"Well, I wish I still was", said The Rat, "Why, when I was 13, I had .........

And how many idiots were in that village, Turbo? Were they the ones they turned into lawyers?  (I was actually quite surprised to find the old English census records make provision for counting the village idiots!)

I can't talk too loudly, it appears that there was a reasonably recent ancestor (1700's) on my Fathers side of the family, who was a lawyer in Buckinghamshire. 

But then again, I have reason to be biased, my Grandfather was denied major property entitlements, when he was ripped off by crooked lawyers, who realised he couldn't read or write, due to a lack of schooling as a child (1840's).

He determined he would never again be ripped off by people with "intellectual skills", and ended up teaching himself to read and write, and finished up as an industrial chemist for a coal-tar manufacturing company.

I guess the following two links are relevant for further information, as regards the Williamtown Air Base restrictions.

Williamtown Aeronautical Study (2008) - https://www.r2a.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/williamtown_study08final.pdf

The actual crash site of the trike is marked on the Google Maps link below. I found it by comparing features in the media chopper photos, to actual features on the map.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/32%C2%B039'24.3%22S+151%C2%B035'43.1%22E/@-32.656911,151.5736834,12662m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x6b73448c581e270b:0x37b70738c85dd36f!2sPaterson+Rd,+New+South+Wales!3b1!8m2!3d-32.7005186!4d151.586784!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d-32.656757!4d151.5953171

Here's the media photo I used for comparison. The red arrow marks the trikes crash site.