Quickies part 2

[ClintonB]

[nomadpete]

Just for the (older) nerds.....

 

 

Fortran joke: God is real, unless declared integer.

Cobol joke: A single missed period can be of great significance.

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Cobol joke: A single missed period can be of great significance.

It depends on where you align

[nomadpete]

21 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

It depends on where you align

I am not crossing the line about that.

[nomadpete]

"Flying is not dangerous, as long as you remember its dangerous"

 

PS: I got that from a yachting forum, but I really identified with the concept.

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

"Flying is not dangerous, as long as you remember its dangerous"

 

PS: I got that from a yachting forum, but I really identified with the concept.

How do yachties know whether flying is dangerous?

[facthunter]

That's a bit like sex. I don't get it. Nev

[facthunter]

I'd Wondered where that One went. 

 Anyhow? 

  When  they FLY a distress flag. huh?   It's Nautical but nice.  PS I'm also a BOAT person. but my wife would get seasick IF I swished the Bath. Nev

[nomadpete]

4 hours ago, Marty_d said:

How do yachties know whether flying is dangerous?

It is the definition of Risk Management.

 

Yachties do a similar risk management to aviators. Keep away from the edges of your transport fluid.

 

Also, they notice all kinds of noisy disturbances. Things like jetskis and flying machines are dangerous and annoying.

[facthunter]

A SAILboat doesn't emit STINKY smells like something running on Bunker Oil does. Nev

[facthunter]

Good Pilots take to SAILING like a duck to water.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

Like this one

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[facthunter]

Neither a Good Plane OR  a GOOD Boat. Just a never ending Maintenance challenge.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

But it is a Duck, taking to water.

[onetrack]

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Keep away from the edges of your transport fluid

Ah-HA! So the Flat Earthers are in the majority amongst the boaties?! Yeah, I'd hate to fall off the edge of the Earth, so I keep well back from it.

[red750]

A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning.
The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment and said 'How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!' and hung up.
The husband said, 'Who was that?' The wife said, 'I don't know, some woman wanting to know if the coast is clear.'

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, onetrack said:

Ah-HA! So the Flat Earthers are in the majority amongst the boaties?! Yeah, I'd hate to fall off the edge of the Earth, so I keep well back from it.

I think you know what I meant. 

[facthunter]

The Bottom of the sky is where you have to be careful, IF you are an air person.   7% of Americans believe the Earth is FLAT..Nev

[nomadpete]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

The Bottom of the sky is where you have to be careful,

And I try to keep my boat away from the bottom of the ocean, too.

[onetrack]

"Bottom of the Harbour" schemes worked brilliantly for a large number of mining scumbags in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, until the ATO put a stop to it.

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

"Bottom of the Harbour" schemes worked brilliantly for a large number of mining scumbags in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, until the ATO put a stop to it.

But I don't have the wealth to benefit from bottom-of-the-harbour stuff.

[Jerry_Atrick]

You're not claiming to be a mining scumbag, are you?

[onetrack]

No-one gets any benefit from bottom-of-the-harbour schemes today, because the ATO nailed it for what it was - simple criminal activity designed to defeat tax collection. But plenty of people who are supposed to be "looked up to" today as "great entrepreneurs", only got their initial wealth via BoTH scheming.

One well-known (now deceased) mining entrepeneur here in W.A. started a huge collection of "collectable" cars, and a car Museum in York (W.A.) thanks to his BoTH scheming and "unjust enrichment".

He did serve a small jail term for his criminal scheming as regards tax avoidance, but he still won handsomely, monetarily. It goes without saying he was a close associate of W.A's greatest corporate scammer, who did go to jail for 5 years over his corporate crookedness.

But surprise, surprise, he sprang back from his "bankruptcy" and 5 yr jail term with a very substantial level of assets, reputed  to be nearly $300M, that he'd socked away in untouchable jurisdictions. Of course, his initials were AB, but I guess you all know that.

 

Edited 9 hours ago by onetrack

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

You're not claiming to be a mining scumbag, are you?

If I was, I'd probably have a much bigger boat, and maybe a flying ex-Saudi palace!

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

You're not claiming to be a mining scumbag, are you?

No. If I was, I wouldb't lower myself to mix with all you lowly scum.