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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?

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12 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

The Spring Carnival is such an elegant gathering.

 

 

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You can dress them up, but, boy, don't let them drink!  

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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 :angry:

 

 ..... nor the drunks that come with it :angry::angry:

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5 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

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You sure? Cuz this sure looks like he's leaping for the throat of the photographer.

 

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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.

 

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2 hours ago, Alpo said:

You sure? Cuz this sure looks like he's leaping for the throat of the photographer.

 

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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!

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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 :angry:

 

 ..... nor the drunks that come with it :angry::angry:

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.

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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.

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19 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Ozzie the Mozzie at Hexham Bowling Club nsw

 

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That’s a small one!!  Around here they come with “N” numbers and landing lights!! :o :o :lol:

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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"

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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.
 
 
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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?

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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 :) 

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£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.

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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

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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
May be an image of text that says 'MELBOURNE CUP. +942. AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL RELAWM24544'
 
 
 
 
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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.

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