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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 71
The Really Really Boring & Totally Pointless Snippets of Information Thread MkXIX
HERE YER GO.
Set the course for 190,000 Posts and lash the wheel.
Reset Draper's PC to zero for injudicious use of the P word,
Last edited by tony draper; 18th Feb 2012 at 09:57 .
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: East Ecosse
Age: 60
Posts: 434
Well, thank you for having me aboard...I notice, your Admiralship that your post count has been restored; does this mean you are no longer on the naughty step?
Edit: well it was for a minute..
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OLD RED DAMASK
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Lancashire born and bred
Age: 59
Posts: 303
Yes thanks as always
Mr D . Smells nice shiny and new and hopefully no posting probs.
Found one of the bar staff....
and another..
and the ever faithful Igor..
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Tabs please !
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Biffins Bridge
Posts: 434
What a lovely pair of jugs.
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More bang for your buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: land of the clanger
Age: 71
Posts: 3,486
Ah good the pool table made it across and my kit bag. Obviously a refurbished cruise liner I can just make out the first few letters of her old name CONCO..............................?
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Scalextric for Men
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Southern England outside the M25
Posts: 254
I interrupt my steam cleaning of wine vats: to bid you welcome.
#7 permalink
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 71
Made some proper Bubble an Squeek yesterday wi left over mash and cabbage,it shall be joining me Saturday Fry Up later.
One is fond of Bubble an Squeek.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: EGNX country
Age: 57
Posts: 146
Wow, I see we've gone nuclear powered.
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More bang for your buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: land of the clanger
Age: 71
Posts: 3,486
Yep, we all got fed up getting covered in coal dust every time we had to coal ship and it's very difficult to get anyone to work as the 'black gang' nowadays
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Official PPRuNe Chaplain
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Witnesham, Suffolk
Age: 69
Posts: 3,152
Nice decor! Needs flowers though ... oh, but Lent starts Wednesday.
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Pilot of the Airwaves
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Mi Casa
Age: 63
Posts: 745
Quote:
can just make out the first few letters of her old name CONCO........
No
Mr Granite ,you have missed out an "O" after the "N". Tis a converted oil tanker me thinks.
All the fruit and veg bought, including a large pile of strawberries, for just €5.50.
Now for that restful afternoon I've been trying to get (unsuccessfully) all week.
OOPs!
Someone's sunk another one!
MV Yogi, described as a super yacht and only launched a year ago, has sunk off Greece. Photo from Seanews Turkey
Last edited by IB4138; 18th Feb 2012 at 10:53 .
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South of Old Warden
Age: 76
Posts: 776
The USS New York made with 7.5 tons of steel in her bow, salvaged from the World Trade Centre.
Link
#13 permalink
More bang for your buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: land of the clanger
Age: 71
Posts: 3,486
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: The Land of Beer and Chocolate
Age: 45
Posts: 761
Aah, a fresh room to hide in. Bit like this one I be relaxing in here in Oostende. Pity about the weather though
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 1998
Location: Europe
Posts: 3,060
Milk bottle put in its place of pride, now back to sleep.
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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Netherlands
Age: 64
Posts: 1,604
From the Mail report on the Yogi sinking
Quote:
.... but it would have been an uncomfortable phone call the captain would have had to make to the as yet unidentified owner.
Presumably in Russian?
Tried to find more on the ship name and came across
this site. Is it run by
Mr. D. ?
edited to add, there was a naughty in the website name so it's been deleted.
Last edited by Lon More; 18th Feb 2012 at 12:32 .
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Europe
Posts: 78
hmmm... have I got totally dumb or what? Anybody, have mercy on an elderly lady and explain the current affairs?
#18 permalink
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Garden of England
Age: 74
Posts: 151
So Yogi wasn't smarter than your average bear, after all? In fact another boo-boo, Boo-Boo!
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Manchester
Age: 62
Posts: 54
Wow - that was quick XIX away!!!!!
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Eight Gun Fighter
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Western Approaches
Posts: 1,072
USS 21 LPD.
They can carry two of these and launch against the nasties.
The Hovercraft was invented by a Brit.
So was this...
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