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27-08-2010, 05:09
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#106
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by anjou
then there are the other things like owning over half the planet, having the largest military and merchant navies, first iron clad ships etc etc not to mention being the first country to put the world right when things go wrong
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And the lesson is? ................Empires don't last for ever (even if you don't call them that  ). especially when the natives become restless - about sending all their gold to "us" in exchange for shiney beads. or bits of paper with words on them.
Plenty of lessons from history for others. no names 
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27-08-2010, 05:21
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#107
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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Lead with your right Anjou, you got DOJ on the ropes 
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so many projects--so little time !! 
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27-08-2010, 05:33
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#108
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: At the intersection of here & there
Boat: 47' Olympic Adventure
Posts: 4,892
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anjou
aeroplane,
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Eh? Wasn't that a couple of blokes from Ohio?
Quote:
Originally Posted by mintyspilot
The germans invented the space race too. If it hadn't been for WW2 the russians and the yanks would never have got their hands on all those german rocket scientists who effectively built those rockets. |
Forgetting about that fellow Goddard, aren't we?
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27-08-2010, 05:36
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#109
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Princeton, NJ
Boat: Challenger Anacapa 42
Posts: 2,097
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OK guys... We dont do politics. How 'bout we talk about something less volatile and bring this back to Mark, like: This would never have happened on a Blue Water boat...
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27-08-2010, 05:37
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#110
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alabama
Boat: Land Locked... ugh
Posts: 66
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Originally Posted by Christian Van H
OK guys... We dont do politics. How 'bout we talk about something less volatile and bring this back to Mark, like: This would never have happened in a Blue Water boat... |
LMAO
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27-08-2010, 06:06
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#111
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 51,337
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TopHat
... Better to have loved & lost, than never to have loved at all (author-unknown) ... |
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
From (27) “In Memoriam: AHH" ~ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The lines actually refer to the death of a beloved friend, not the dissolution of a romantic relationship.
Long live you both.
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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27-08-2010, 06:19
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#112
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: At the intersection of here & there
Boat: 47' Olympic Adventure
Posts: 4,892
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Christian Van H
OK guys... We dont do politics.
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It's not politics - it's history. If we were to bring politics into it, I would have included Anjou's questionable inclusion of the telephone in her list.
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27-08-2010, 06:35
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#113
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,820
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
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27-08-2010, 07:50
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#114
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 417
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Oh so true! The Germans gave us Einstein, too. Oppenheimer's parents were German immigrants, he was born in New York.
And because this is Mark's thread, let's not forget what may have been the most humane "invention" of the 20th Century. Howard Florey of Adelaide took Alexander Fleming's observation of bacteria-killing mold and gave us the gift of penicillin. OK, he was working in the UK, but he was an Aussie, after all. Thank you Australia!
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27-08-2010, 07:56
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#115
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Mark,
Been watching this thread. If you accept even half the offers for beer and consolation you are going to need a professional captain on board because you're gonna be blotto for the next six months.
Is this all just a great scam to get free booze for life?
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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27-08-2010, 08:35
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#116
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Princeton, NJ
Boat: Challenger Anacapa 42
Posts: 2,097
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Originally Posted by Drew13440
And because this is Mark's thread, let's not forget what may have been the most humane "invention" of the 20th Century. Howard Florey of Adelaide took Alexander Fleming's observation of bacteria-killing mold and gave us the gift of penicillin. OK, he was working in the UK, but he was an Aussie, after all. Thank you Australia! |
And there you go! We've managed to mention Penicillin in a thread about Marks love life... What is this, six degrees of Mark?
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27-08-2010, 09:06
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#117
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Originally Posted by Christian Van H
OK guys... We dont do politics. How 'bout we talk about something less volatile and bring this back to Mark, like: This would never have happened on a Blue Water boat... |
Hush! Don't be giving people ideas. The last thing we need is a new poll trying to determine whether romantic breakup is more likely in a production boat, or asking member input on which manufacturer's brands are less likely to facilitate long-term relationships.
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27-08-2010, 09:36
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#118
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
Boat: Catalina 34 - "Points North"
Posts: 493
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Christian Van H
And there you go! We've managed to mention Penicillin in a thread about Marks love life...
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To be fair, it's my understanding that Penicillin and relationships are not mutually exclusive. 
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27-08-2010, 09:54
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#119
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
Boat: Cooper 416 Honeysuckle
Posts: 6,933
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
Whats with that? Football is NOT soccer.
Football is played by Aussie blokes on a Saturday afternoon and is called Aussie Rules. Soccer is played by dweebs. You need proof? Beckham.
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In North America REAL football is played on a field 110 yards by 65 yards with endzones 20 yards deep and the men who play it only require 3 downs to move the pigskin 10 yards and there is no "fair" catch or "downing" the ball(before any fans of that stiltifying thing called NFL reply).
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“We are the universe contemplating itself” - Carl Sagan
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27-08-2010, 10:52
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#120
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 51,337
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hummingway
In North America REAL football is played on a field 110 yards by 65 yards ...
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Indeed!
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