Birdseye

Just a little python, will keep the rats down. You could give him a nickname, 'Monty' springs to mind.

I was thinking more of the past 30 or so years, but yes you are historically correct.

The USA and it's CIA have a lot to answer for. That is not just a glib statement, but based on observations made over many years.

You can remove that update and get rid of the 'nag'. I forget the update number, but a Google will bring it up.

Also check on any difference in service and oil change interval between diesel and LPG/petrol. LPG engines stay very clean internally.

Being a mild adventurer I allowed it to try and install on my spare PC. It's had a half a dozen goes, failed each time and produced useless error messages that MS cannot resolve. Update is now 'OFF'.

Did anyone consider that the Crusades were for a reason ?

Went through a plague of locusts in the WA wheat belt at a fair bit quicker than that. Scared the crap out of me, as they rose off the road right in front of me . Then I had to put up with the stench of charred locusts on the exhausts and motor for the next 100 or kms. Yep, I get 'ring flutter' on passing through 250.

Managed to get around there in 1976 on 'Mad Sunday' and averaged in the 80s on the second lap on a mildly tuned 250 shod with Dunlop TT100s. Just think what I could have done on my Suzuki Hayabusa! Mind you, they look to have opened a traffic cone factory on the island and they put them everywhere these days.

So should be a fair chance of seeing the new motor by then?

Gotta die some time; it would be a boring world if we all died in our beds.

Yes, lots of various flavours in 64 bit available. According to my Win 10 offer, it won't be available for download before the end of July.

One thing we have in this world is a people surplus. Therefore we should be more selective of who we tolerate living on the planet. Had they not be caught, how many more drug runs would they have made in the past ten years? The only inhumane aspect is waiting ten years to carry it out.

c'off Nev.

A more appropriate version of a song from a failed politician talking about Oz sport aviation: Traveling in a clapped-out Drifter On a hippie trail head full of paras I had a ramp check, it made me nervous They conned me out and left me breathless And he said, "Do you come from a land down under? Where Morgans grow and small kids chunder? Can't you hear them, can't you smell the chunder? You batter them, but still they chunder" Buying grass from a man in Gympie He was six foot four and full of muscle I said, "Do you speak my language?" He just smiled and gave me a Jabiru engine And he said, "Do you come from a land down under? Where Morgans grow and small kids chunder? Can't you hear, can't you smell the chunder? You batter them, but still they chunder" On cross country the thermals bump me And the bloody federals make me nervous When my Jabs donk quits I feel the quoit quit, then reach for a Vegemite sandwich And he said, "Oh, you come from a land down under?" (Oh yeah, yeah) Where Morgans grow and small kids chunder? Can't you hear, can't you smell the chunder?" (Oh) "You batter them, but still they chunder"

Forward it to CASA, if the Nazis at the agency get a response it'll totally confuse them.

Not only that, but the wholesome rat was allowed to escape!

What do you call a Catholic that marries an Orangutang? A social climber............

Correct. On calling 'Time' the bails are removed, but this only occurs when the umpire or an event determines that the ball is dead.

Yes Phil an often touted 'old wives tale'. However you are not very far out out as the following will show. Note the importance of the 'Time' call. Law 16.2 requires the umpires to call time at the end of a session or other interruption. As he would (should) have called time, then no subsequent appeal can be entertained. (Law 27.3). However, if a person appealed at the start of a subsequent over (Time not having been called) and before the bowler commenced his run up, then the appeal could be answered by the umpire (Law 27.3) I commend anyone that is not an expert and who is interested in the finer points (especially TV commentators post Benaud and including Laurie) to obtain a copy of 'Tom Smith's Cricket Umpiring and Scoring'.

A decision can be reversed, but a dead ball cannot be un-deaded (unlike zombies). So regardless, the ball was dead from the moment of the ball contacting the player and the alleged LBW occurring. Another example is if a ball thrown brings down the wicket in a run-out attempt and the player is in his ground, then the ball is not dead and further runs can be scored (overthrows). However, if the run out is reviewed and the batsman is found to be out, then the ball was dead when the wicket was broken and thus no further runs are scored. Now we get an inkling as to why cricket is only catching on in the US. Then again I can't make head nor tails of that rounders derivative that they play.

Probably a bit unfair to suggest that Bailey could have called them back, even if he had been sure of the laws and playing conditions. Note that not one of the officials was an Australian, we are still denied the best: Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), Dharmasena, HDPK (SLA) Third Umpire: Bowden, BF (NZL) Referee: Crowe, JJ (NZL)

Not only is it covered by Law 23, but also reinforced in the WCC playing conditions. I was always told that it is OK to make an error in judgement, but never in regard to the laws or playing conditions.

I'd trade the Mint for the RAAFA museum at Bullsbrook. Also shopping and eating opportunities in Perth over Freo.

In the past, a group with which I had not connection whatsoever ;-) enjoyed Yahoo because it was the easiest system in which to manipulate nasty West African scammers. Apparently these people did things to deprive them of income and warn soppy sods that were being scammed. A rumour was started that Gmail were snoopers, just to put off the scammers from using Gmail. It worked for a while. So Yahoo and a few others did have the worst security and Gmail was streets ahead. Downside now is that Google is so invasive that its practically impossible to avoid its tentacles. Even some of my ancient anti-scam identities pop up from time to time. I hate to think what my associates make of a Linked-In contact of mine called Butta-my-bum!