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pmccarthy

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  1. It was a long time ago, could well be. As a child I stared at the sign trying to understand it.
  2. My aunt had a huge sign on her loungeroom wall which said Mit den tigre e tanken. I don’t even know what language that is, but it had the big tiger picture and must have come from a service station.
  3. What would you expect from a deep lead mine? Lead was pronounced leed and it was a gold mine
  4. Anyone who creates and lives in an enclave, wears identifying garments and speaks another language is always going to be singled out and victimised. This goes for any religion or creed. Folks who integrate, as did the Greeks and Italians in Australia, become part of their new community and are loved.
  5. And oom oom was just a backward cow.
  6. He's hoping to get ahead.
  7. I have only heard of a few of the people on this thread and certainly have no idea what they look like or did when they were younger.
  8. They could have saved money if they had only pulled themselves together.
  9. Said with aplomb.
  10. We had that rule for a heritage building extension, so I had to rush around with a metal detector and shovel before the builders arrived. I found bits of several mouth organs and a shotgun all probably 100 years old.
  11. Hucks starter, is a shaft with a dog to engage the propellor boss, mounted on a car, driven by the car engine. I saw one on a Model T at Shuttleworth. Better than the Armstrong method.
  12. Slow cook the mutton, cool it and scrape of the fat, then reheat.
  13. Or a Hucks.
  14. Is a brown thumb like a brown nose?
  15. We saw Whiplash on Christmas holidays at my grandparents in Sydney, never saw it in the country. I don’t know what channel.
  16. There is an old song which mentions “cursed Toongabbie” as a penal settlement.
  17. Everyone has a secret super power. Mine is the ability to sit or lie still for hours. I learned it when I had to sit on a hard pew in church as a child. Ignore discomfort, ignore brain-deadening noises, just remain still. What is yours?
  18. Beware the model era of tail fins.
  19. the rubaiyat of Omar Khayam a rich wine-sipping potentate a poet at some earlier date was recently heard loud to cry I'll eat my ruby hat if I taste equal to Yalumba Dry. with a picture, this wa a full- page advert.
  20. I enjoyed Whiplash, how’s this from memory… in 1851 the great Australian gold rush the only law a gun the only shelter wild bush Whiplash, whiplash etc
  21. A mutual friend has offered a couple of time to take me down the road to meet Facthunter, but I haven't taken it up. I know others on the flying site, but not here. I do consider this part of my social life and, since Covid, I have been avoiding groups other than my Aero Club, which is my main connection with the civilised world. I would miss this site if it folded.
  22. I am always logged on. I have checked! I saw Octave here a couple of days ago. But we need to attract some new talent, most of us have been here since the site was created and we were the active discusses of shite on the other site. Not many have crossed over since and few outsiders. ian was talking about reintegrating the two sites, that might help.
  23. No, you are thinking of beavers.
  24. I think I would prefer Coffin Bay. ( for the oysters).
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