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How's this for truth in labelling?

There's nothing worth watching on TV anyway. Even with Foxtel there's nothing on this evening. You'd be better with a DVD player and a box of DVD's. A few of the Foxtel channels are disappearing to streaming services like Netflix, Stan, etc.

Here's one that's a bit different. It was called Michelin PLR and used the legendary Citroen DS as its base.

Like one of Ansett's old Bell helicopters. For a number of years it was at a kids play park where the Forest Hill police station now stands. When Wobbies World went out of business, it was relocated to  a farm on the Dandenong-Frankston Rd. As my copyright bar states, I took this photo in 2012.

That's a decent main runway. 1000 mt below the road crossing, 1360 mt, (4,459 ft) in total.

This looks like a common UFO video, until right near the end when the car stops and the camera zooms in. After the second zoom-in, just as the craft is about to disappear behind/into the building, the USAF rondel is visible on the upper surface.

USAF Flying Saucer.

Texas limo.

A motor home created from a Douglas R4D

Plane to RV.

THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION  ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME  WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE,  AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:  1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:  Marrying you has screwed up my life.  2. I see your face when I am dreaming.  That's why I always wake up screaming.  3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;  This describes everything you are not.  4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,  But I only slept with you 'cause I was pissed.  5. I thought that I could love no other  -- that is until I met your brother.  6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's  empty and so is your head.  7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;  But don't take that paper bag off your face.  8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes  Damn, I'm good at telling lies!  9. My love, you take my breath away.  What have you stepped in to smell this way?  WHO SAID POETRY IS BORING??

A friend from the Shed used to bring in lemons, and plums and nectarines, but has no fruit this year because of fruit fly. Reported them to the Dept, but was told "Don't bother, they're everywhere".

In another report from the mighty US, posted on Yahoo News, and from The Independent, police were called to a report that a black double amputee ( both legs at or just below the knee) had stabbed a person. The police attended, and with the man off his wheelchair, on his stumps, and using his hands to manouvre, was shot 8 times, killing him. Yes, he did try to escape on his stumps and hands, and yes, he was holding a large carving knife, but half a dozen cops, black and white, were so afraid for their lives, could only stop this man by shooting him dead.

9 hours ago, onetrack said:

Peter, did you ever acquire a new set of wheels?

No onetrack. Still relying on others. Maybe by Christmas....maybe.

Honouring Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool – by removing themselves from it in the  most spectacular way possible. The awards are given out every year; these are the latest:

Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]:
An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]: 
James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a  troubling noise. Burns’s clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

Nominee No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]:
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to  his ear.

Nominee No. 4: [UPI, Toronto]:
Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank  Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building’s windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day  Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association. A person has to wonder what the dimmer members of this law firm are like.

Nominee No. 5: [The News of the Weird]: 
Michael Anderson Godwin had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into  a wire and was electrocuted.

Nominee No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]:
A Dunkirk, IN man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzleloader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30  PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a .54 caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Nominee No. 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]:
A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional  Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.

Nominee No. 8: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]:
Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday.
Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the  older model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began to  operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.
After travelling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement, and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor  cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when  Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.

"I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia Poole (Poole's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck?

First up. that's a dot-com link, not gov.au, so obviously a scam. Secondly, MyGov don't send texts like that.

Just been to Woolies. My flavoured, sugar zero mineral water jumped from 75c for a 1.25 lt bottle to $1.50.

4 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Maybe, but he got the shade...

Maybe, but that's the OUT lane of the carpark, not a parking space.