Blak bart
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Life is tuff over here......traded a case of paper towels for these. Mmmmmm good !!
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Life is tuff over here......traded a case of paper towels for these. Mmmmmm good !!
bill from lachine
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Bart,
Looks like a good trade to me. When we were in Freeport I seem to recall the locals saying it was worth it for them to travel to Miami to stock up on supplies because the local supplies were very expensive. Looks like not much has changed since then.
Looks like a good trade to me. When we were in Freeport I seem to recall the locals saying it was worth it for them to travel to Miami to stock up on supplies because the local supplies were very expensive. Looks like not much has changed since then.
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You gettin old? Or isolated? L.o.l..
Cali has some a-holes. Has some great folks too.
I enjoyed San Diego (long ago) . Not one person comes to mind as anything but great. And the weather! Sigh. Nearest I've been to paradise.
No , I won't return likely.
More recent but gone now , was a deal along a favorite river near me. Folks from various countries and cultures camped along it's edge in the forest.
Not homeless , at least not perceived as such , but more a summertime activity.
Maybe it's being out of one element and in another on equal footing but it was never a contention.
If folks wanted to slide off into privacy they could.
The fun for me was no common language , but showing someone a nice trout and our ability to communicate without a language.
There's always folks who are simply disagreeable. But look close enough and there's folks on your wavelength too.
Who cares if they are pink,blue,green ,or where they are from if they are sincere about being citizens and not insulting others?
Story time!
Went with an Italian friend to Georgia. Met his Dad and stayed with family a while.
The highlight of the visit was meeting my friends Grand Dad. In a care facility unfortunately ,but it was likely my friends last visit ,so still a good thing.
His GrandDad was in Italy, around 11 years old when an Uncle in the U.S. sent his father a letter stating the son was welcome to live with him in the U.S..
The father wrote a letter in reply and sent the son to mail it.
The son (my friends GrandDad) opened the letter out of sight of his Father to find the offer was being declined.
The boy promptly hopped a ship...To America.
I don't recall the how's of passage expense,or if he labored in exchange, or how he found his GrandDad,if he did. Or if that part was even told.
I must have been distracted if it was told , by the Old mans former gumption.
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Good morning crew mates,.......
Calm seas?
Calm seas?
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Don't celebrate too soon WD,........
That's 11,000 "dollars",...... as in Aussie dollars,.....
as in that 's the bill for damages following the drunken brawl, (not my words), where
a good deal of damage was done, including a ruined billiard table,........
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Bart,.... please take this to heart,......
I am so happy that one of us is living a heaven on earth life in the here and now.
A blessing on you my friend,.....
And a safe return to tell the tale,...
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Het RR,...........
My father was an Allied war hero.
He single-handedly destroyed 4 Messerschmitts, 9 Heinkel bombers, and 11 Stuka dive bombers.
He was the worst mechanic the Luftwaffe ever had.
*
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Sir Douglas Bader and I couldn't let it pass without this story of the RAF hero.
He was giving a talk at an upmarket girl's school about his time as a pilot in the Second World War.
"So there were two of these Fockers behind me, three fockers to my right, another focker on the left," he told the audience. The headmistress went pale and interjected: "Ladies, the Fokker was a German aircraft." Sir Douglas replied: "That may be, madam, but these fockers were in Messerschmitts."
*Based on a true story*
My father was an Allied war hero.
He single-handedly destroyed 4 Messerschmitts, 9 Heinkel bombers, and 11 Stuka dive bombers.
He was the worst mechanic the Luftwaffe ever had.
*
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Sir Douglas Bader
I couldn't let it pass without this story of the RAF hero.
[TRUE STORY]
I couldn't let it pass without this story of the RAF hero.
[TRUE STORY]
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Sir Douglas Bader and I couldn't let it pass without this story of the RAF hero.
He was giving a talk at an upmarket girl's school about his time as a pilot in the Second World War.
"So there were two of these Fockers behind me, three fockers to my right, another focker on the left," he told the audience. The headmistress went pale and interjected: "Ladies, the Fokker was a German aircraft." Sir Douglas replied: "That may be, madam, but these fockers were in Messerschmitts."
*Based on a true story*
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Allegedly the German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot
They, it is alleged, not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.
So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,... and I didn't land."
They, it is alleged, not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.
So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,... and I didn't land."
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Back in the day British Airways had cool looking planes.
Sure the DeHaviland Comet was not the safest, but for you were going down in a flaiming ball of twisted metal at least you looked good doing it.
Sure the DeHaviland Comet was not the safest, but for you were going down in a flaiming ball of twisted metal at least you looked good doing it.
bill from lachine
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SanMan,
Lots of British Airway pilots after the war were former RAF pilots. During one of my vacations in Barbados in the 1970's during my misspent youth.
Met a lovely lovely blond young lady by the name of Shaunee from the UK who was vacationing with her folks. I hung around with them quite a bit during the evenings at the beach club.
Well her dad was originally from Canada and an RAF pilot during the war and was working as a pilot for BA. She told me a funny story about a sterling silver bracelet she was wearing.
It was her dad's dogtags from the war which he made into a bracelet and gave to her. Well there was this German guy hitting on her and she wasn't interested and he was pestering her about the bracelet and what it was about. She finally got fed up and told him it was her dad's dogtags which he wore during bombing raids of Germany....
Lots of British Airway pilots after the war were former RAF pilots. During one of my vacations in Barbados in the 1970's during my misspent youth.
Met a lovely lovely blond young lady by the name of Shaunee from the UK who was vacationing with her folks. I hung around with them quite a bit during the evenings at the beach club.
Well her dad was originally from Canada and an RAF pilot during the war and was working as a pilot for BA. She told me a funny story about a sterling silver bracelet she was wearing.
It was her dad's dogtags from the war which he made into a bracelet and gave to her. Well there was this German guy hitting on her and she wasn't interested and he was pestering her about the bracelet and what it was about. She finally got fed up and told him it was her dad's dogtags which he wore during bombing raids of Germany....
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My parents and grandparents are dead,.... I don't have anyone to ask.
I did a hard search and narrowed things down by using my last name,.......
There are approximately 795 families in Italy,.....
509 are in Sicily, the next two, bout 100 families, are in Northern Italy
Sicilia - 509
Veneto - 57
Lombardia - 47
Campania - 40
Lazio - 37
Piemonte - 31
Toscana - 23
Liguria - 15
Friuli V.G. - 9
I found a neat color coded map with the number of families,.....
But I am on a borrowed machine, I can't snatch the picture.
I'll come back and post it.
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Italian women were considered the most beautiful in the world for decades,......
Here we are in year 2020,.... and they are still ranked way up there,......
If I remember right Brazil holds the record for now,..... say, 9.95
And Italy up there at,..... 9.85
Italian women are warm and beautiful,...can cook, and like to fool around,...
I'm thinking as hard as I can,...... I can't think of anything else I would need.
Oh, for camping,... take two sleeping bags and zip them together.
That's all I can think of,.......
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Tomahawks, Spitfires, Hurricanes and Temptests were always cool. Here are some Tomahawks in Egypt in 1941. Coincidentally, I purchased a model today of the exact plane in the photo.
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Flew a short formation training mission over some Pacific islands today with some P-40's.
ECS
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Too much rum makes those manatees look like mermaids.
bill from lachine
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An interesting article about family dynasties.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...still-rule-the-world?utm_source=pocket-newtab
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...still-rule-the-world?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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I seem to recall a F-15 video game back in the day Duckshot. It was fun. I had another game that had instruction manual the size of an encyclopedia. It was fun, but required so much studying the manual. It was a spy plane I think. Shortly after the Atari 2600 came out we bought one. They were downright expensive. I still have it and about 30 or so games.
