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Because it's the only font that all Americans can read?

No, it's a bastard child of a highly illegal Korean-German mating attempt.

A. The first letter of each word is in alphabetical order.

Gee, that's a lot older than me, when I first left school and lived in a rented farmhouse in the wheatbelt with the brother, we had a party line phone with a local manned switchboard, where you had to ask the operator for a specific person - but that phone was this style of handset. We had a couple of miles of heavy gauge iron wire suspended on poles, running through farmland to the highway, that we had to maintain. It wasn't unusual for a big Salmon Gum to drop a branch over the wire, and put your phone out - whereby we had to go an do our own "fault tracing"! The girls on the switchboard would regularly listen in to your calls, so you kept the discourse to a minimum.

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Oh, you mean Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber? She came from Hungarian parentage. I'd forgotten all about her, she kept a pretty low profile in later years. I wonder why she never had children, despite being married to the one bloke (who was also her manager) for 52 years?

You get what you pay for. I've heard some stories about rings made out of chewing gum, and no doubt the QC is pretty hit and miss. If you want reliability and long life, you can't go past the genuine article, it's hard to kill a Honda. However, having said that, I bought a firefighter off eBay, powered by a no-name Chinese Honda copy. I only wanted it to transfer a bit of water around from collection points to tanks. It cost me a whole $186 delivered! However, when I went to fill it with fuel, the petrol poured out on the ground, as fast as it was going into the tank!! 😲 A little investigation showed the fuel hose from tank to carburettor had never been connected! It took me about 20 minutes to fix, I had to R&R the tank to fit the hose, and go find a hose clamp! Despite that, it fired up no problem, and has never missed a beat in a few hours work since. But I'm not so sure I'd want to rely on saving my house and my skin, on a cheap Chonda-powered firefighter!

In my neck of the woods, it's huge global corpoarations and overseas pension funds that are buying all our decent-size farms. I'm absolutely blown away by the "corporatisation" of farming in recent years - and the vast sums of money being poured into farmland. Farm prices have gone ballistic here, and the thing that staggered me most was going to a local Field Day, where sharebrokers and global financiers took a leading position in the displays. A far cry from when we used to go to Field Days to see what the latest farmer inventions were, and what the latest affordable farm supplies were, on offer. Now, the farm machinery costs in the millions (a harvester is easily over 3/4 million today), farms sell for multiple millions (where a few hundred thousand used to be the norm), and anyone who bought any farm in the 70's or 80's, or even the 90's, is the recipient of multi-million dollar windfall gains.

I never really thought about the latitude of EnZed being on a par with Tasmania - but upon checking, I find EnZed is further N overall than I'd previously imagined. Regardless, anything S of Perth is too far South, and too cold for me! 😄

It's a TANK chair! Of course, it has to carry armament!! This is an all-American product, right? 😄

Fox News did an interview with Harris and specifically set out to make Harris look dumb. She did her best to knock back the Trumpist agenda, but she was on the defensive back foot from the instant the interview started. https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/kamala-harris-grilled-on-her-policy-flipflops-in-rare-interview-on-fox-news/news-story/8bbc408a4c1ec3e861af27b6e0c4eac6

Paddle. You can have a cat burglar, a catnap, and a catwalk, but not a cat paddle.

There's enough imbeciles in America still, to vote Trump in. He's leading in the polls now.

Arrrgghhh! You're messing with my mind!! I can't believe that optical trick!!

Hey, arr you blokes taking the pus out of our Southern bro's?

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Willies driveway is probably a fair bit longer than yours, Spacey!

With only weeks to go before the 3G network is shut down for good, the authorities have determined there's still at least 60,000 handsets out there, still running on 3G, which become useless the instant the 3G network is shut down. I note the article below says nothing about other 3G devices still relying on the 3G network, that aren't handsets! Note also, the number of people still complaining that a 3G shutdown is going to leave them worse off, as regards communication, even if they have upgraded to 4G (and even 5G) handsets. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/3g-switch-off-phone-reception-check-devices/104478336

Remember when rabbit was regularly referred to, as "underground mutton"?

Here's a good news article, about a family of German tourists, who came across a big pod of dolphins (about 40 of them) "surfing" at a beach off Albany, W.A. The family managed to catch the light and water clarity at the right time, and the photos and videos show the pod playing like regular human surfers, travelling along in the wave ahead of the break, and leaping out of the water above the breaking wave. https://au.news.yahoo.com/travelling-family-captures-extraordinary-aussie-scene-nothing-like-it-back-home-201231692.html

It looks like I've had a FB Messenger scam perpetrated on me. I don't trust anything on FB at the best of times, but I thought Messenger was reasonably secure - but obviously not. I got this official-looking FB message via Messenger, reportedly from a FB moderator, that told me this .... We have detected unusual activity on your account due to you violating META's policy terms. To avoid your account being restricted and permanently blocked, please verify and follow the instructions. The message then showed a FB Marketplace listing I'd put up for some tyres I have for sale. I have never provided FB with any personal, important ID, only my phone number. I even use an incorrect FB name, same as millions of other FB users do. The message showed me a link to click on (this was on my phone) to verify my ID. I ignored it until I got home, then I typed in the link on my desktop to see what was there. Up came a very professional-looking META webpage that would fool anyone. I typed in my username and password, as requested, and up popped a window saying I had to verify the login with the SMS/email code that had been sent to me, to proceed. But there was no SMS, nor was there any email, with any passcode. So I have to presume the whole thing was a cunning scam. I've found plenty of websites that advise you on common FB scams, but no mention of this type of scam. So I promptly changed my FB password, and uninstalled Messenger from my phone, I'll install the app again later, and take care that the Messenger app I install isn't a scam app!! It's a constant battle trying to keep in front of the scams. I should have been aware of redirects after typing in a web address - but the redirect was very fast and smooth. This is the link that appeared after I typed in the Messenger address link - but it's not the link address I was given, nor what I typed in. It changed subtly and smoothly in the redirect. http://www.buidinessloginncheck9556.click/logiin1

No, no ... you've got it all wrong. Scott will be quoted, right after the initial launch failure, saying, "I don't hold the match, mate!"

OME, I beg to differ. The user wasimtariq323 has joined for no other purpose than spamming. These people put up a first seemingly innocuous post which has all the hallmarks of being written by ChatGPT, and which post shows no "humanity" or personal touches to the posting. Then they continue to lurk, so they can spam and possibly indulge in misinformation later. The post doesn't past the "genuineness" test, based on my tuned internet instincts, developed from 25 years of forum use, during which I've come into contact with nearly every variety of spammer, scammer, troublemaker, attention-seeker, and even several Aspergers Syndrome users. Today we have to deal with increasingly devious misinformation spammers, and we have to stay alert.

We have identified a professional hoarder in our midst!! 😄

I dunno why you blokes are replying to a blatant spammer in the form of wasimtariq323.