Illuminati-R-Us

Lance wrote:I just don't want to be under it when it shit(e)s!

Words of a wise man

NZ Wood Pigeon eating seeds in Kowhai tree on my front lawn just now. Must be Spring already

FAICTs keep changing.

Why didn’t they play like that last time?

Or even easier

New Launch Time

Which, AFAICT*, is 6:17am Sunday 4 Sep here

*Which, AFAICT, is Irish for 'a faict'

And tougher some other times

Maybe more plausible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQJFQDBHob8

Three Kings Up Your Bum

Try not to get too disappointed

This statement from February 2022, on Putin's 'special military operation' in Ukraine, attributed to Mr Gorbachev apparently

Keep trying

tubeswell wrote:Launching soon.

We hope

Launching soon

12:30am-ish 30 Aug 2022 NZ time AFAICT https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-cover ... -the-moon- from the future side of the international date line.

Blimey the All Blacks have lost their aura. I can’t bear thinking about it. What has happened to the younger generation? In the good old days of college rugby, it was a sign of prowess to put your body on the line for the cause - how I first broke my back when I was 16. I had to be sedated on opiat...

Okay - so this gives me an idea for a new game

Post your entries

https://archaeology-world.com/archaeolo ... ghis-khan/

(PS: Any entry could be worth a laugh)

^Looks like a Bleriot^ monoplane?

I gave up directly supporting the local economy in 2006. But I continue to drive Mrs T to supporting the local economy on a daily basis, in moderation.

Aug 17 1942 3,000 British POWs (including 118 NZ POWs) died when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean, sparing these loyal troops the coming hardships of their internment in a POW camp, and denying the enemy convoy their POW shield. That's t...

12 August - in NZ history 12 August 1816 - NZ's first Mission School opened at Hohi (Oihi) in the Bay of Islands (in Northland - a.k.a 'the winterless north' at the northern end of the North Island) This was in a Church Missionary Society (Anglican) settlement, when good old Church of England preach...

Sad for everyone involved. Hope you're managing to avoid the net of troubles Lianachan

Judith Durham, I see, suffered from lifelong bronchiectasis after catching measles at 4. Incredible that she could sing so well! She had a powerful soprano - really impressive set of pipes just looking back at these old videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf41UudAbI https://www.youtube.com/watc...

When's the date for the Mar-a-Lago-Gate reveal?