Buckshot Bear
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47 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:
Yes, the radar cross section is MUCH larger, briefly, not long enough for something like an S400 to lock and and acquire. Not that Iran HAS any more AAA batteries or anything other than light caliber slug throwers, useless at the altitude a B2 would be flying, and no radars left capable of pinging it during that briefing moment of "HI!".
The earliest they would likely notice would be, "Abdullah, stop that whistling!"
"But I am not whistling!"
"Then what is making that...uh oh."That made me smile
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Big fan of mine.
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Someone should sell grits in Australia.....just so we can know what it tastes like!
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When the B2 bomber opens up its bomb doors, does it become more visible to radar?
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10 hours ago, Alpo said:
I don't see no beets. Or even no beetroots (since y'all don't know what the plant is called).
Oh.... There's beetroot alrighty -
https://www.nindigullypub.com.au/menu
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21 minutes ago, watab kid said:
are they like dogs that can learn or like rabits that are meant to be eaten ?
They can be tamed if taken as joeys and be quite attached to humans......but they are just wild herbivores.
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2 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
You've got me. What is going on there?
The muck in a cooked crab.....crab 'mayonnaise'....but it ain't mayonnaise!
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1 minute ago, watab kid said:
i dont have the issue of where its set up , its conditioned fully year round but i just find i have way more idle time in winter than in the fair months , and ,,,,,,,,,,,,,there are still things i dont get to or make time for , woulda , coulda , shoulda as my wife pointsout when im sitting on the deck in a lawn chair smoking a ceegar and enjoying an adult beverage
Envious!!!
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1854 Sarsaparilla soft drink introduced
The first people to sell it in Tasmania called it “The great American beverage”. So what’s sarsaparilla doing in a timeline of Australian food.
Well, although its popularity has waned in its native land, it still has enough fans in Australia to prompt strenuous online debate about the best brands.
Particularly popular in Queensland, sarsaparilla is an “old school” soft drink and it has a long history in this country.
Sarsaparilla root has an even longer history, being used as a herbal medicine since ancient times.
The Smilax genus has varieties native to many countries including Australia.
The local version was brewed into “sweet tea” by early colonists, although the variety most commonly used for medicine came from Central America.
It was supposed to cure everything from syphilis to arthritis and cancer. In the early 19th century, sarsaparilla root was advertised by colonial pharmacies alongside other herbs, remedies, cordials and essential oils.
Sarsaparilla first appeared as a drink in American drugstores where the syrup was mixed with fizzy water from the soda fountain. Like the original Coca-Cola syrup, it was deemed to be a tonic with health-giving properties. Enterprising operators began adding other flavourings such as caramel and vanilla to improve the flavour and sarsaparilla was on its way to becoming a popular bottled drink.
In 1854, notices appeared in Melbourne newspapers offering “aerated sarsparilla”, the first time the fizzy drink was advertised in Australia. It was being promoted by George Raistrick, of Emerald Hill (now South Melbourne). Raistrick’s advertisement announced:
The undersigned, the original introducer of Aerated Sarsaparilla into these colonies, and last year manufacturer of Cordials for two of the leading houses in this city, begs to intimate that he has commenced business on his own account, and trusts by assiduity, strict integrity, and the production of first rate articles, to merit the support of an intelligent rising community.
The same year, Armstrong and Robertson of Hobart Town claimed to have secured the services of “the original introducer (into the southern hemisphere) of the highly and deservedly extolled beverage”. Before long, nearly every major town in Australia had its local manufacturer of aerated waters, many of which included sarsaparilla in their ranges.
While the drink is less popular today than it was in its early years, or even in the 1950s and ’60s, it has its adherents. Queensland makers include Bundaberg, Crows Nest Soft Drinks and Wimmer’s, which traces its history back to 1887 when Alfred and Frank Wimmer arrived with a recipe from Germany. Kirks was founded in Queensland and still sees that state as its biggest market for its “Big Sars”. In South Australia, Bickfords seemed to have dropped it from their range. In Victoria, River Port in Echuca makes the extra-strong Double Sarsaparilla. And there are others.
The Sarsaparilla Spider (with a scoop of icecream) is still a popular drink in some quarters, while there are those who like to get creative by adding alcohol – vodka, rum or tequila, take your pick.
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W.H. Hannam wireless operator, Cape Denison, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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On the 11th of November 1975 the 2 millionth vehicle manufactured by Ford Australia came off the Broadmeadows production line Victoria, Australia which was an XB Ford Fairmont.
The first Ford built by Ford Australia was a Model 'T' Ford which rolled off the assembly line in an old wool store in Geelong in Victoria on the 1st of July 1925.
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The Aussie Humour Thread
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