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pmccarthy

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  1. Five groans?
  2. A few times in my life I came into some money, through a grannie dying or a lucky investment. I was stupid enough to tell friends, and there was always a friend who had a great investment idea for me and I always got sucked in, not once did I see my money again.
  3. Never heard of the actor or the movie. And I watch a lot of movies.
  4. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

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  5. It’s her granny, nonna vent.
  6. Bandt the antisemite should be in jail.
  7. Not 5 million years. We are ok for much longer than that.
  8. I have been driving this hire car for more than a month and find it easy to remember the number plate. Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm started their collaboration in, I think, 1927. I wish it had been 1924!
  9. Three bachelors were kidding their married friend. . . ."You've been married five years now, George," said one, "and still no childeren? Is your wife" (and here he tried a very bad pun) "unbearable?" . . .Or," interjected another, "perhaps she's inconceivable?" . . ."Maybe she's, uh, impregnable," joked the third. . . .George shook his head sadly. "No, boys, you're all wrong. She's insurmountable and inscrutable."
  10. In Scotland they still sell and use coal. The coal sellers have banner signs beside the road advertising it, I know at least one pub near Lithgow in NSW that uses a coal fire, I don’t know where they get it. There is no smell inside, almost no smoke, but a wonderful smell outside that takes me back to the days of steam trains.
  11. I ran a consulting business for many years and we always had full working from home. Employees (up to 250 of them) were billing clients by the hour and I didn’t care where they worked from. They were assessed on their billings and client satisfaction. The system worked well and still does, the business has been going for 40 years now. Here's a link if you are interested https://www.amcconsultants.com/
  12. Keeping warm and snug with a lovely coal fire this morning.
  13. Like Albo at Christmas, when the angels said no L.
  14. I enjoyed the museum, best item was Eric Brown's helmet!
  15. Instead of an urn you can end up in a croc.
  16. I have not, but have seen videos. I would love to spend a day there. I spent a couple of hours at Yeovilton two weeks ago watching big choppers come and go.
  17. If it is an LSA then any repairs that need parts may be a problem, Fly Synthesis no longer exists.
  18. I have been enjoying low level passes by jet fighters and big multi engined aircraft over the lakes in the Lake District. The RAF publishes a schedule but it said there was nothing for recent days. A bit more googling and I found these are all US aircraft which use the area for low level training.
  19. That sounds about right when looking at the image.
  20. It is just the sizes that have been corrected. Of course the image of each region is no longer the proportionate distance from its neighbours. The main message for me is that Russia is not all that big compared to Australia.
  21. I watched the movie The Conclave on a plane two weeks ago. Highly recommended, an imaginative story about what happens behind the scene when the pope dies.
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