Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Tributes have been paid to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, who has died at the age of 82.He famously uttered the quote moments after setting foot on the lunar surface: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16290598

Kinda brings a lump to your throat! Al-Qaeda terrorists launch human rights bid

Two Al-Qaeda terrorists, one of whom plotted to kill thousands of people in a bomb attack on a British shopping centre, have launched an attempt to have their convictions quashed on human rights grounds.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/26/peter-hain-labour-lib-dem-outside-in-coalition_n_1831192.html

In case you had any doubts -

Bank Holiday downpours put 2012 on course for wettest summer ever

The national forecasting service said summer 2012 is already in the top 20 wettest years and likely to be in the top ten.

With downpours expected on Bank Holiday Monday and more rain forecast later in the week it is possible it could be the wettest June, July and August in 100 years.

Anybody got a list of weekend newspaper share tip's

"Anybody got a list of weekend newspaper share tip's", Going by Skinny's link ..buy Water shares!

Buy the banks, I don't write a newspaper, but I have a bi tof paper, pencil and a dictionary, how difficult can it be?

I remember being woken up by my Dad at I think 11pm or later in a foreign country in front of a small black and white tv....for a piece of history....now if the human race goes on to become like something from the Star-Trek series...than that is a monumental moment in time when mankind set down on another (moon-planet)......it is incredible when you think that computers did not exist so the effort by the people who went about putting a man on the moon (for peace reasons, not for war or the military...one must not forget that this was at at a time when the USA was deeply involved with Vietnam and the cold war with Russia....) is enormous......I will never forget that moment of walking into that room with the flickering on the screen from another planet a few minutes before landing !....so Neil Armstrong : rest in peace....

RF - have a read - How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer?

chuckles

What are you talking about ?

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I'll have a read a bit later...cheers.....something like a casio wristwatch....if not less...

I see George is as popular as ald.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/28/george-osborne-unpopular-chancellor-reshuffle_n_1835222.html

Apologies mto fred who probably will not understand why the quotes below are funny.


Alabama's Heather Whitestone, a former Miss America.

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"


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"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey

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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"

-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign

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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"

--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"

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"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"

--A congressional candidate in Texas ..

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"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.."

--Al Gore, Vice President

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"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix..."

-- Dan Quayle

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"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

--Lee Iacocca

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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

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"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

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"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina

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"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."

--Keppel Enderbery

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"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."

--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

TIM.

They must be from the Coalitions Cabinet Meeting.

I often wondered why the name "cabinet", and now, I know why!

8-)

Some quite amazing pictures Wildlife watchers: beauty and brutality

How to crush a gypsy camp French-style: It took us 10 years to clear Dale Farm but France's ruling have smashed six Roma camps in as many weeks. Guess where the gypsies want to come next
•Hundreds of police have been launching dawn raids on camps throughout France

•Nearly 1,000 Roma have been deported following at least six raids in recent weeks

•In the most recent raid, Roma families ordered to leave as 500 officers entered an illegal camp near Lyon
•Police arrest 180 people who now face being deported back to Romania
•After gypsies are evicted, officers smash up caravans with diggers
•New Socialist government escalating crackdown that began under Sarkozy
these are the best pictures in 50 years go to the mail and see them bril

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an international summit because he doesn't want to share a platform with the "morally indefensible" Tony Blair, it emerged yesterday.

The retired archbishop, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaigning against apartheid, said that he had withdrawn from the event because he believed the former Prime Minister had supported the invasion of Iraq "on the basis of unproven allegations of the existence of weapons of mass destruction."

In a statement, Archbishop Tutu's o

I thought the EU was going to bring peace to Europe , maybe it could if there wasn't uncontrolled immigration