snafuPlus, the most curvaceous thing in it was Keira Knightley; lovely, yes, but not exactly ‘wonder woman’ material!
Met her a couple of times, a lovely girl, but I am not sure that ‘curvaceous’ is quite the right word to use, in her case…
In the TV series, the invisible aeroplane wasn’t exactly invisible.
Well, I haven’t seen that at Legends, so…?
snafuI did…..what have I missed?
No idea. Don’t remember posting this…
(Note to self: don’t try to post when apparently asleep.)
snafuRead the whole thread.
snafuWell according to the auction house, it was “very unique”, so unless your museum has a piece which is more unique than this bit, I’d say less than 3.5.
After spending a day being shelled to prevent it being captured 425/17 was recovered overnight and ‘dismantled’ for souvenirs by Australian soldiers until just parts of the frame remained; the uniqueness of this ‘canvas’ scrap essentially boils down to how much has survived the subsequent 98 years, is known/preserved and not competing against this piece at auction.
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The wreckage as recovered
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The wreckage being examined, and/or souvenirs being acquired
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The remains after being stripped for souvenirs
Lots of parts of the wreck and Richthofens flying gear are held by the Australian War Memorial, but it is said (elsewhere and on other forums) that there is enough fabric taken from his last Fokker to cover a Zeppelin. Now that would be unique.
snafuHow would a Volvo predict the Zener card it was being tested on, being just a machine?
snafuBe a bit difficult to form up the signatory Diamond Nine with only five, and to give the Reds that many Typhoons the MoD would need to disband a squadron, wouldn’t they?
How come no one is putting up the Lightning II as a potential Arrow mount?;o)
snafuFWD as in Four Wheel Drive
WHAT?
Just…what?
though the TT is actually Front Wheel Drive, it only engages Four Wheel Drive when it detects slippage, so most of the time runs in Front Wheel Drive..
Wonder what other TLA’s you’ve decided to use that go against industry understood acronyms?
Does LOL mean loads of lasagne to you? USA – under silly advice? BBC – bring back carrots? WTF – where’s the food?
Still, WGAS…
snafuCan I ask which day did you buy your lottery tickets for. please?
snafu…it dawned on me I could have been doing warp factor 9 (70) coming up to a roundabout or junction…
Or it could have let go when you weren’t hacking it. If you want to look at it like that then you might never step outside for fear that a satellite will decide to crash to earth on the same patch of ground you are standing on. When you look at it that way it gets the adrenaline flowing and makes life worth living, doesn’t it?
Go on, joust with the OAPs on their mobility scooters as they warp factor 9-it through the shopping centre as though wearing blindfolds with a sense of immortality – but please tell us your lottery numbers now, just in case.
snafuGet yourself an external hard drive, save your images into a folder by year and in that by month, you could save them into folders for individual events within the month folders; you don’t take 9,999 images in a month do you?. You might hold a years worth of images on your computer but the external hard drive is there so that you can run out the door with it in the event of a house fire (dunno if you have a lap or a desktop but it is always useful to have something like this duplicated).
There are programmes available with which would enable you to search the images but then you’d need to caption your images so that the programme has a chance…
You could compile a diary with which to aid your memory, in a Word document maybe – although similar programmes are available, but that depends on how much effort you want to go to.
snafuThere’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
snafuLet us, in no particular order, play catch up…
The queen has died.
In the words of one observer, it is “possibly the saddest, most heartbreaking ‘This exhibit is currently out of order’ sign ever” – the ant colony at London’s Natural History Museum has a sign on it that reads: “The queen ant has died.”
The sign goes on to explain that:
“When this happens the colony fails to survive. The worker ants are in the process of dismantling the fungus garden nests, then they will also die.”
All that is now left of the Trinidad Leaf-Cutter ant colony is a pile of discarded leaves, some shredded paper, and the remains of several dead ants that have yet to be cleaned out…
He span us right round, baby, right round?
The singer Pete Burns, who founded pop group Dead Or Alive, has died of a cardiac arrest aged 57.
Burns rose to fame in the 1980s with the band’s hit song You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). He also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2006, coming fifth in the final.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/dead-or-alive-frontman-pete-burns-dies-aged-57
Bit of a cliche to ask who he thought he was kidding, but you know…
Jimmy Perry, creator of one of TV’s most popular comedy series, Dad’s Army, has died aged 93.
Working with producer David Croft, he was also responsible for It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi and You Rang M’Lord?
He sang Take Good Care of My Baby, Rubber Ball, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73.
Vee, whose hits included the chart-topping “Take Good Care of My Baby” and who helped a young Bob Dylan get his start, died Monday of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Jeff Velline. Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011, and performed his last show that year.
Doh?
Television comedy writer Kevin Curran, who worked on The Simpsons for 17 years, has died at the age of 59.
A spokesman for Fox, which produces the animated series, confirmed he died on Tuesday.
Curran started working on The Simpsons in 1998 as a consulting producer and stayed with the show until 2015.
The first woman to scale the Seven Summits – the highest points on all continents…
Junko Tabei, the first woman to scale the summit of Mount Everest, has died of cancer. Her passing marks the end of the first generation of Everest climbers. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who scaled Everest in 1953, are long gone. Before them, George Mallory and Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine had vanished into the clouds during their attempt in 1924.
The artist behind Judge Dredd.
Influential comic artist Steve Dillon, known for his frequent collaborations with writer Garth Ennis that included acclaimed runs on DC-Vertigo’s Hellblazer and Marvel’s The Punisher and, most notably, co-creating the seminal Vertigo series Preacher recently adapted for television on AMC, has died. He was 54, and his brother, Glyn, confirmed on Twitter that he passed away in New York City sometime this morning.
http://deadline.com/2016/10/preacher-co-creator-steve-dillon-dies-1201841051/
A man born in America but who became the king of Thailand.
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state.
The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances.
He was seen as a stabilising figure in a country hit by cycles of political turmoil and multiple coups.
The Thriller writer…
Rod Temperton, the British songwriter behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Rock With You, has died aged 66.
Jon Platt, the chairman of music publisher Warner/Chappell said Temperton died in London last week following “a brief aggressive battle with cancer”.
“His family is devastated and request total privacy at this, the saddest of sad times,” Platt added.
Temperton, whose other credits include Boogie Nights, Off the Wall, Give Me the Night, Sweet Freedom and Always and Forever, is one of the most important songwriters and composers in contemporary pop.
My eldest was mildly annoyed at the news.
The professional skateboarder and model, Dylan Rieder, has died at the age of 28.
Rieder passed away on Wednesday after suffering complications relating to leukaemia.
A statement from Rieder’s manager posted on the skateboarding magazine Jenkem’s Facebook page said: “Today, October 12th 216, surrounded by family and friends, Dylan Joseph Rieder passed away due to complications with Leukaemia.
Going on to join the others from the cast of Rentaghost…
Ann Emery, the veteran actress who played Ethel Meaker in children’s show Rentaghost, has died at the age of 86.
Emery, half-sister of comedian Dick, also played Grandma in the original cast of the Billy Elliot stage musical.
One of the founders of the influential R’n’B record label.
Phil Chess, who started the influential blues label Chess Records with his brother Leonard, has died at age 95. The company, which the siblings founded in Chicago in 1947, was home to such seminal musical artists as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Chess died overnight in Tucson. His brother Leonard passed at age 52 in 1969, just a few months after he sold the company.
Are you still reading this?
The Scot who transformed the lives of mothers around the world when she invented disposable nappies has died at the age of 94.
Valerie Hunter-Gordon died on Sunday at her home, Ballindoun House, in Beauly, Inverness-shire.
She came up with her idea for a labour-saving alternative to towelling nappies after having her third child in 1948. At the time towelling nappies, pinned together and held in place with a pair of rubber pants, were the only option for mothers and had to be washed after use.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-inventor-of-the-disposable-nappy-dies-at-94-1-4262735
My kids love Spirited Away…
A key member of the Studio Ghibli team that brought us a library of animated classics including Spirited Away has died.
According to Japanese newspaper Mainichi, animator and colorist Michiyo Yasuda died Oct. 5 at the age of 77. She started her decades-long animation career in the late 1950s, before many women worked as creatives in the industry. She had a job in the ink and paint department at Japanese animation studio Toei when Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki joined the company. The pair would go on to found Studio Ghibli.
In addition to working on some of Studio Ghibli’s best-loved films, including Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, and Kiki’s Delivery Service, Yasuda was in charge of color design for a number of commercials and animated television shows.
Phew.
snafuSo, you can see, as usual I’m quite right in my assessment.
Another tongue in cheek statement, I take it.
snafuAnother idea would be to actively match unemployed people to jobs and force them to do them, except this time around, make sure the employer pays the wages.
A wonderful idea – if only all the jobs required untrained workers. Unfortunately many jobs require an element of experience or good knowledge in the field concerned, employers are rather reluctant to invest in training and prefer to entice the fully trained from other companies.
snafuWhat are you implying?
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