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Re: OT: Ridin' tall on the Santiago Canyon Road (was Re: What could J4 (or WG4) do)
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| Alistair 2006-06-06, 7:55 am |
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James J. Gavan wrote:
> Chuck Stevens wrote:
They'd probably substitute shells or missiles for balls, and they might
not play so much at anchor. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Royal
Navy allow women to serve onboard ship now (and probably gays as well).
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> Big naval dockyard in my time along with Chatham,
If Chatham is still active, then it iusn't so big now.
> I'm told the Dockyard is completely gone - but Nelson's flagship HMS
> Victory at Trafalgar (Oct 1805), still sits there proudly in a drydock,
> plus a museum dedicated to D-Day.
If you use Google Earth to view a satellite image of the docks, you'll
see plenty of moored up RN ships.
You can also see Victory (still the flagship of the RN). There is now a
new museum containing the remains of Henry VIII's ship Mary Rose and
HMS Warrior (the first British Ironclad?) is sited there too.
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> History Channel has been inundating us with D-Day stuff, Canadian
> involvement (naturally), Ike docudrama starring Tom Sellick, (excellent
> !), the superb Spielberg/Hanks series 'Band of Brothers' and other
> documentaries, covering airborne troops etc. The most meaningful comment
> came from an old US soldier.
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> LEST WE FORGET ...........
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Some of you may be aware that there is a little sporting event due to
start this side of the pond on the 9th June: the Footie World Cup
(soccer to the Yanks). Some of you may be aware that British approaches
to Anglo-German relations tend toward John Cleese's "Don't mention the
war" and the footie chant "Two World Wars, one world cup" with
politicians, etc., calling for the UK to move on. It seems that our
Orange brethren from Holland have taken the opportunity to sell replica
plastic German helmets in orange (with Dutch flags printed on the side)
and in the English cross of St. George (recently decanonised). They
have also produced t-shirts with the slogan "Where's my bicycle?", a
reference to the fact that the Germans stole much of the property of
Dutchmen.
I find that all of the documentaries are well produced but they do seem
to reinforce negative stereotypes and maybe it is time to move on.
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| Howard Brazee 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| On 8 Jun 2006 11:26:03 -0700, "Alistair"
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>England invented football. You Americans purloined the word and applied
>it to a game which, because of the wearing of body armour and crash
>helmets, can hardly be considered to be manly.
Some Englishman mentioned it reminded them of Knights.
Knights in White Satin.
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| Roger While 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| Never reaching the end
Listening to the same as me ?
Roger
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> On 8 Jun 2006 11:26:03 -0700, "Alistair"
> <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> Some Englishman mentioned it reminded them of Knights.
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> Knights in White Satin.
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| SkippyPB 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| On 8 Jun 2006 11:26:03 -0700, "Alistair"
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> enlightened us:
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>SkippyPB wrote:
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>Jerry Lewis was a rubbish singer and Gerard Depardieu is a superb
>actor. Just watch his performance as Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Jerry Lewis was never a singer, rubbish or otherwise. And no thanks
I've seen Depardieu in other movies and whilst I don't dislike him to
the level the author does, I wouldn't go out of my way to see him in
anything.
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>England invented football. You Americans purloined the word and applied
>it to a game which, because of the wearing of body armour and crash
>helmets, can hardly be considered to be manly.
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>Nothing wrong with sheep's entrails. Nor pig entrails (chitterlings). I
>do draw the line at cow's entrails (tripe).
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Yuch!
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>You need wine  ers to (most) white wines. Rough reds can be
>drunk at room temperature.
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>Er, England invented that game.
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>But soldiers would look less butch wearing a Homburg.
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>I like armpit hair, on women, and a certain musky odour.
Well to each his own I say.
Regards,
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| Pete Dashwood 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| reminds me... I must write some letters. 'Course, whether I send them or not
is unimportant... :-)
Pete.
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> Never reaching the end
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> Listening to the same as me ?
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> Roger
> "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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