Buckshot Bear Posted October 31, 2023 Author Share Posted October 31, 2023 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 The Spring Carnival is such an elegant gathering. 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 ..... "......... engaging cultural cringe factor to maximum level and a bit more from now until past next Tuesday ..... " ...... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: The Spring Carnival is such an elegant gathering And exactly what is the spring carnival? Everyone in the pictures appears drunk, but they also appear to be under 30. College students? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 looks to be a bunch of DRUNKS , turned loose to raise Cain CB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 30 minutes ago, Alpo said: College students? 27 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said: bunch of DRUNKS Isn't that a redundancy? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Spring Carnival!?!! So THAT'S where this was taken! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazos John Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 12 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: The Spring Carnival is such an elegant gathering. You can dress them up, but, boy, don't let them drink! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 tichakalogically the "spring carnival" is a horse racing thing culminating in the melbourne cup on the first Tuesday of November. The melbourne cup is the "horse race that stops the Nation". I can't stand horse racing ..... nor the drunks that come with it 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buckshot Bear Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 Ozzie the Mozzie at Hexham Bowling Club nsw 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 a tiny skeeter , how cute CB 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alpo Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 5 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: You sure? Cuz this sure looks like he's leaping for the throat of the photographer. Just because he's smiling doesn't mean he's not trying to kill him. Maybe he's smiling because he enjoys causing death and destruction. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 5 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: Well at least it smiles while thinking about killing you! Regards Gateway Kid 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Kind of a Hannibal Lector critter. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Alpo said: You sure? Cuz this sure looks like he's leaping for the throat of the photographer. Just because he's smiling doesn't mean he's not trying to kill him. Maybe he's smiling because he enjoys causing death and destruction. NAH, I think it just wants a hug! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 21 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: tichakalogically the "spring carnival" is a horse racing thing culminating in the melbourne cup on the first Tuesday of November. The melbourne cup is the "horse race that stops the Nation". I can't stand horse racing ..... nor the drunks that come with it Horse racing. I think it was Sherlock Holmes who said that it eternally surprises some people that one horse can run faster than another. After too many years under the lights-and-siren, drunks are pretty low on my list of well-liked people. I'm used to seeing the kind of things illustrated by the opening pictures to this discussion, but I'm not used to seeing it with people who are so well dressed. Thinking of spring and fall riots at a local university. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 One of the Dick Francis books - Hot Money. The exceedingly rich man buys a couple of racehorses and gets addicted. And he and his son fly all over the world going to races. And they end up in Australia in November. The Melbourne Cup. >Everything, they told us there, stopped for the race. Schoolchildren had a holiday and the Melbourne shops closed.< The whole town closed. Wow. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 19 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Ozzie the Mozzie at Hexham Bowling Club nsw That’s a small one!! Around here they come with “N” numbers and landing lights!! 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 From Boy Scout camp "The skeeters here at Euchee, they say are mighty fine A couple got together, and ate a friend of mine I have had enough of Euchee life Gee Ma, I want to go home" 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 Drop bear 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 Sunshine, Victoria c.1969 Massey Ferguson, Tractor Axle Testing Using Ultrasound, Sunshine, Victoria, c.1969 An operator is using an ultra-sonic crack detection device in the Sunshine testing laboratory of Massey Ferguson. A production test technique applied to 100 per cent of certain tractor axle components in the factory. High frequency sound waves are transitted through the component from a special source by a hand-held probe. Any defect shows on the oscilloscope screen as a distortion of the normal electronic trace. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 I'm missing the point here. The guy is UT-ing a tractor axle. So? People do that all the time, every day, all over the world. What's the humor? Excuse me. What's the humour? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted November 4, 2023 Author Share Posted November 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Alpo said: I'm missing the point here. The guy is UT-ing a tractor axle. So? People do that all the time, every day, all over the world. What's the humor? Excuse me. What's the humour? For me.......that you spelt humour correctly 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 not TRUE he just mis spelled it like y'all do CB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 14 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted November 4, 2023 Author Share Posted November 4, 2023 (edited) Back in the day ...... Shop is still around - https://www.melbournefirearms.com.au/ Three weeks free trial was bloody generous! Edited November 4, 2023 by Buckshot Bear 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 £3 for 10 rounds? Six shillings a shot? Either your pound was drastically lower than the British pound, or that guy was ripping you off big time. With a British pound that would have been close to a buck and a half a shot. Dollar and a half a shot on a $20 rifle!?!?!!? That's kind of like buying a gyrojet. $100 gun that fired $10 a shot ammo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassnetguy50 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 26 minutes ago, Alpo said: £3 for 10 rounds? Six shillings a shot? Either your pound was drastically lower than the British pound, or that guy was ripping you off big time. With a British pound that would have been close to a buck and a half a shot. Dollar and a half a shot on a $20 rifle!?!?!!? That's kind of like buying a gyrojet. $100 gun that fired $10 a shot ammo. Read it again, - per 100 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Taken from the Australian War Memorial FB page. The importance of sport to Australians serving overseas, including those in captivity, endured throughout the Second World War. In 1942 prisoners at Sandakan prisoner of war camp marked Melbourne Cup day with a race. A track was set up between the officer’s huts divided into thirty squares. A race caller drew cards from a deck to determine how many squares each ‘jockey’ could advance. The first to reach the end was the winner and was presented with this ‘Melbourne Cup’ an empty bully beef tin mounted on a wooden stem and base. Accession number: RELAWM24544 #objectoftheweek #AWMobjects #AWMemorial 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Oh yeah, that stupid British slash in the money. 3 pounds 10 shillings for 100 rounds. £3/10 is /70, which is 840d, so 8½d a shot. At about 3USD per £, that comes out to a little over a dime US a shot - 10.6. Not too bad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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