pmccarthy

Radio National announcers all seem to say "see you later" or " see you next week". It is a really silly thing to say on radio.

 

 

Those sets, built by Alf Traeger, are probably in museums now. But RFDS still operates a HF radio network across Australia.

 

 

I am also reminded that as a kid I had a wireless set the size of a cupboard in my bedroom. It had two short wave bands and an electromagnetic speaker. Anyway, the Flying Doctor Service used to have a 10 am session which allowed all the station women and families to chat to each other, and I could listen in. Some of my school mates came from those stations, so you could pick up useful background information. Not that I would use it to gain any advantage, of course.

 

 

My cousin and I used to hook two wires over the lines of our hand-cranked party line system, using an old phone handset, and listen to our parents and the neighbours. Pre-empted you Phil, by about 25 years!

 

 

Back to Moses for a moment, he was an Egyptian, probably one of the Pharoah's many sons. (mose=son). When he defected the Jews had to come up with a story as to why they were being led by a hated Egyptian. So they made up a story, that he was really an Israelite who had been brought up by Egyptians. All this and more in "The Moses legacy"by Graham Phillips. Rings true to me.

 

 

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Nice one. Wish I had that in the background!

 

 

OK, applying my 1974 rule. We didnt do selfies then, this is the best I can do. B&W photo had the door off for air to air photography.

 

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Phil, is 1974 a cutoff date? No selfies later than 1974? Or should we say no selfies showing you older than 30 (ish)? That way dignity might be preserved. Otherwise the moderator might have to delete this thread to preserve the standing of recreational aviation.

 

 

I heard Philip Adams yesterday telling about reading of a Heavenly Father who sent his son to earth with supernatural powers to save mankind. The son had an earthly mother named Mary.

 

He was reading a Superman comic.

 

 

The aboriginal people in Victoria were rounded up quite early and put into two locations. So most Victorians grew up not seeing aborigines. In NSW many country towns had a "blacks camp" and the kids came to school, so we sat alongside them and got to know them a bit. Only a bit, there was still a lot of prejudice. I have wondered whether attitudes are different in NSW and Vic as a result, but I don't know the answer.

 

 

I can't help commenting:

 

Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

 

Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

 

Deuteronomy 19:21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

 

So it isnt only the Isis scum advocating this.

 

Doesn't mean I agree. Just that the God botherers on both sides are the same.

 

 

It's a fashion thing. The Platypus gave way to the Full Brazilian.

 

 

As a frequent traveller to Melbourne I'm a little alarmed about the threat to reveal a wide brown land by baring your b$m in Bourke Steet.

 

 

Water bores on outback stations have been releasing tons of methane for more than 100 years. This photo was taken on Yandama station (near Tibooburra) in 1972. In a lot of these places you throw a match onto the dam on a cold morning and there is a blue flash and small explosion across the water.

 

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Based on dating of rock art, hafted stone axes and irrigation channels the garden of Eden was probably somewhere under the sea between the Kimberley and the New Guinea highlands.

 

 

A couple of peeves:

 

On radio, when responding to the interviewer, "So .......blah blah blah" So is so out of place there.

 

On radio, a report into something. Should be a report about something.

 

 

Is homeopathy when gay people know what each other is thinking?

 

 

I've always wondered, is that a biblical one too? I can just imagine the passage...

"...verily I say unto thee, whosoever polisheth the bishop will have his sight taken from him; for the Lord doth despise those who spanketh the monkey."

On ABC National radio yesterday they discussed a new device for collecting energy from jerkin'the gherkin. Apparently you could rechange an iphone or something similar using kinetic energy capture. This is something you can buy today and strap to your wrist. So if the phone goes flat in the middle of a call you might say "Sorry darling, I'll have to call you back in half an hour".

 

 

I'm very proud that someone fought the Bogans.

That war continues in our suburbs and on our beaches. We will never surrender.

 

 

Is a religious dyslexic a Dog Botherer?

 

 

Some islanders and PNG natives placed a live prisoner in each post hole before standing the corner posts of a spirit house. The compaction would make a very efficient use of space. A contractor with an auger and a small pile driver could do well in the cemetery business.

 

 

Ah...the No Liability company. An Australian invention I believe, so that investors in gold mines would not be held responsible for the company debts if they failed. Without it, we Victorians would still be living in slab huts and herding sheep.

 

 

Someone was developing a cemetery in Western Victoria using that method about ten years ago. I heard no more about it.

 

 

I love the idea of blue sky thinking. It was the group Little Heroes who sang " one perfect day" and asked the question that we all ask " tell me, is it still raining there in England?". Drones don't cope well with the weight of precipitation.

 

 

There are a lot more horse's a#ses in Australia than there are horses. You can find them in the ACT.