Give us a nudge will ya'
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A Tribute to Mo!
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I love this sort of stuff.....fascinating......awe-inspiring...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226815/The-Milky-Way-youve-seen-The-intense-centre-galaxy-glory.html
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Did ya know you can log on to the National Star Registry & buy a star & name it after whoever you choose?
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Amazing photographs taken by the very brave...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230025/Google-Earth-Second-World-War-Amazing-aerial-images-taken-daring-Allies-revealed-Hitlers-weapons.html
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amazing photos of space and WW2.
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This is the kind of stuff that Moggy enjoys. They are for Moggy who has decided to take a long or permanent break from this site due to interference from the powers that be......and one or two others..... David is not a happy bunny!!.....and is considering his position on this board!
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It has been confirmed......Moggy has left the building. It's a bleedin' disgrace! Time to follow suit perhaps......where shall I go next?
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i don't believe in begging adults not to storm out of somewhere in cyber space, to beg them not to leave and beg them to return...it's all kind of silly, one shouldn't take things that happen online that seriously. why get your feelings hurt or your knickers all in a twist, over mere words on a screen?it's not personal, really. does the writer (or the mods) know you personally? in person, up close and intimate, right there in person in your daily life? no. how can they really 'know' you enough to be truly hurtful or insulting or offensive or whatever? to the point of storming off, and not contributing anymore? also, then you let the offender 'win.' often they were even unaware they offended you, or they didn't mean to hurt your feelings, and didn't even know they did.
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David, Don't You Dare Leave! Who will spice things up round here, not to mention make us smile : Ahhhh, I need a nudge to get some proper work done tomorra
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david mitchelson:
Amazing photographs taken by the very brave...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230025/Google-Earth-Second-World-War-Amazing-aerial-images-taken-daring-Allies-revealed-Hitlers-weapons.html
OMG David hun, thank you sooo much for posting those extraordinary photos of the Western front, and such. I could hardly take it all in....I get emotional when I see things, you know...it's the Dad connection as well. I'll be mulling this over again and again...thank you!
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Claudia611 Hello there Laudy Miss Claudy.... How's things lovey? I am once more sitting posting here trying to inject some excitement into my humdrum day. Lordy, another stormy day in the land before time......how many times have I said that now on here? As you may know my partner in mischief the legendary Moggy has departed these shores for pastures new and I'm now going solo and will, as a result, talk to myself a lot more (I do that a lot)......but every now and then I'll come on here and pester you and the rest of my harem just for the hell of it.... Things are a tad scummy in my 'life' (hah! What's that?) at the mo........could do with a period of pestering and nonsense to lift the gloom. Here's another similar story..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230294/The-true-story-The-Great-Escape-revealed-airmans-World-War-II-diary.html
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I especially like the WW2 links. My grandfather was a U.S. Army Tech. Sgt who was in Normandy, he is dead now. (he built bridges and specialised in structures...) My friend is 85 years young, PFC Paul Sinclair Woodard, was assigned to: 'Company G, 180th Infantry, Second Battalion, 45th Division. Known as the Thunderbird Division, 7th Army. 30 days after the 45th Division landed on Southern France near St. Maxime on August 15, 1944, his regiment moved in for 243 days of Hell on Earth. Some of the cities taken by the 45th Division were Grenoble, Epinal, Mulhouse, and Fremifontaine just to mention a few. There was little opportunity for sleep, and when we did, it was usually taking a two or three hour turns with a fellow soldier in foxholes, farm houses, cellars and haylofts or on snow covered ground.' the above was an excerpt from his memoir of his service in WW2 from January 17 1944 - Novermber 12, 1945. Written by him while his wife, Sudie, was dying of Alzheimers, and he only had a few books printed for his family and close friends, I am honored to be one of them. He wrote it as the memories still haunt him to this day, the ones who did not make it back. Sinclair was only 17 years old when he was fighting on the front lines for 90 days at a time. That is a long time to be on the Front!
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I am fast approaching decrepitude but still stand in complete awe at what those men, women and children went through during the Second World War (and the other wars too). Their bravery and selflessness in the face of a hideous onslaught, their absolute courage in the face of such terrible danger makes me feel completely inadequate. I feel I would be a coward in such circumstances. The major regret I have is that we haven't used the opportunity they gave us wisely, squandering all their efforts by becoming a selfish and spoilt generation and that sadly, day by day, it seems to be getting worse. The men and women of the armed forces past, present and future will always have my total respect and gratitude.
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david mitchelson:
Claudia611 Hello there Laudy Miss Claudy.... How's things lovey? I am once more sitting posting here trying to inject some excitement into my humdrum day. Lordy, another stormy day in the land before time......how many times have I said that now on here? As you may know my partner in mischief the legendary Moggy has departed these shores for pastures new and I'm now going solo and will, as a result, talk to myself a lot more (I do that a lot)......but every now and then I'll come on here and pester you and the rest of my harem just for the hell of it.... Things are a tad scummy in my 'life' (hah! What's that?) at the mo........could do with a period of pestering and nonsense to lift the gloom. Here's another similar story..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230294/The-true-story-The-Great-Escape-revealed-airmans-World-War-II-diary.html
Ay up David M. Greetings Dear Boy! I had to tell you, the other day I sent a an e-mail to a friend and I used that "Aye Up" greeting, and when he answered me back, first thing he asked me was "You been hangin' round a sailor or something....what this "Aye Up stuff...he says.....is that like "Aye Aye Sir....turn to port side 135 degrees!!! I had to tell you ... really cracked me up!! Anyway, I am well thank you,and hope you are fairing well too after all you have been through as of late with your surgeries and so forth. I simply must thank you again for those great pics and the true story of the GREAT ESCAPE!... that along with PAPPILLON was one of my very favorite Steve McQueen films! So interesting to read how that all went down and about the daughter....it reminded of how fortunate I was to have been able to listen to my Dad for hours at a time tell me all his wonderful stories of the War that were later to be played out verbatem in a great film called BAND OF BROTHERS.
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You may like this... http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/SurSteven/StatueofLiberty.jpg
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SurSteven That's an excellent photo. I've seen a few like that and love 'em. It's always good to trawl your country's national archives for stories and photos. I love historic photos and in my work spend a lot of time dealing with them. All sorts of rare stuff from the middle of the 19th century through to the 1970's.....great photos and films of the war etc. At the moment though I'm dealing with something completely different......digitising and documenting dresses/clothes/accessories from the 1920's Flapper girls..... ......Paris/New York/Milan/London fashions. Some of those girls could teach the girls of today a thing or two about being naughty and how to wear skimpy outfits. Talk about sheer and sexy....
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Claudia611 Ooo, 'ello sailor!.......hello honky tonks, how are you?..... Aye as in eye should be ay as in, well, err....ay..... Ay up (or oop) is northern lass.....northern with nowt teken out! And you should know even though you are nowt but a youngster, that you never show men your port side.... Show 'em your port side and they'll always, always want more....THE BEASTS!.... ......135 degrees.......temperature me thinks!.....Phew, is it hot in here? I've tried to find info on my great uncle who died near Bayeux in France 7 days after D-Day but no luck. I know where's he's buried but there's no info on how he died. I e-mailed his regiment ages ago and no one got back to me. Saw a picture of a tank near a church in the village where he died and some photos of the SS outfit in the area.....(the bleedin' SS. Talk about being unlucky. He didn't meet a bunch of kids or some ragbag troop of old crustys ready to surrender at the drop of the first bomb, he met a crack SS Panzer unit!). Will eventually get round to visiting his grave in France and finding the info I need. No one left in my family to ask.....they older generation have all gone now. Need to check out 'Band of Brothers'....I've never watched it. I'm still getting over seeing Shaving Ryan's Privates (or whatever it was called) when it came out at the cinema all those years ago. Is BOB gruesome?
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David, Me Dear Lad, have you tried genealogy .com or ancestry.com? I'd look up my ancestors but am quite certain there were some rogues in the lot.
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GYPSYGIRL Hello ducky, hows it hanging?....it is?....well, tuck it in then......you're such an exhibitionist!..... I have dipped into the portals of Ancestry for my work but then someone else always pays....(the much put upon is very tight with money and refuses to cough up the readies for such an undertaking)....the thing is that I know what's coming.......coal miners from North East England, Irish potato farmers from Wick and way way back through the mists of time, some East European Jewish links (forced to be with a surname like mine). Apart from Max Wall, a British actor/comedian, there's no one famous. I want a real scoundrel in my tree or someone extremely benevolent. As for dubious rogues and black sheep in my family I have to look no further than my shaving mirror....... Sadly, I found more through German sites and more about the SS unit than I did about my great uncle....there are some accounts on various sites about the 6th Durham Light Infantry and their heavy casualties in te villages around Bayeux but not a mention of my uncle. Of course it's hardly surprising, it would be massive stroke of luck if something actually was posted about him by a relative of one his comrades. Still will keep trying. Need to spend few days back in the old hometown to scour the archives.....if I can get past all the other people doing the same that is.