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Ya gotta read this!!! > > This is a true story with an excellent outcome. > > On Thursday, 24th January 2002, Derek Guille broadcast this story on his > afternoon program on ABC radio. > > In March 1999 a man living in Kandos (near Mudgee in NSW) received a > bill for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00. > > He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another bill and > threw that one away too. > > The following month the gas company sent him a very nasty note stating > that they were going to cancel his gas line if he didn't send them > $0.00 by return mail. > > He called them, talked to them, and they said it was a computer error > and they would take care of it. > > The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out > the troublesome gas line figuring that if there was usage on the > account it would put an end to this ridiculous predicament. > > However, whe...

Or maybe it was another Al Quueda stuffup. Subject: FW: Airbus 340-600 THE BRAND SPANKING NEW AIRBUS 340-600, SAT IN ITS HANGAR IN TOULOUSE, FRANCE WITHOUT A SINGLE HOUR OF AIRTIME. ENTER THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW OF ABU DHABI AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGIES (ADAT) TO CONDUCT PRE-DELIVERY TESTS ON THE GROUND, SUCH AS ENGINE RUNUPS, PRIOR TO DELIVERY TO ETIHAD AIRWAYS IN ABU DHABI. THE ADAT CREW TAXIED THE A340-600 TO THE RUN-UP AREA. THEN THEY TOOK ALL FOUR ENGINES TO TAKEOFF POWER WITH A VIRTUALLY EMPTY AIRCRAFT. NOT HAVING READ THE RUN-UP MANUALS, THEY HAD NO CLUE JUST HOW LIGHT AN EMPTY A340-600 REALLY IS. THE TAKEOFF WARNING HORN WAS BLARING AWAY IN THE COCKPIT BECAUSE THEY HAD ALL 4 ENGINES AT FULL POWER. THE AIRCRAFT COMPUTERS THOUGHT THEY WERE TRYING TO TAKEOFF BUT IT HAD NOT BEEN CONFIGURED PROPERLY (FLAPS/SLATS, ETC.) THEN ONE OF THE ADAT CREW DECIDED TO PULL THE CIRCUIT BREAKER ON THE GROUND PROXIMITY SENSOR TO SILENCE THE ALARM. THIS FOOLS THE AIRCRAFT INTO THINKING IT IS IN THE AIR. THE C...

Water Restrictions remain the same at Level 3, Mainly Watering cans for gardens and *trigger hoses for cars which replaced buckets (pails)as many as it took to do the job. The intelligencia who created the former rules, who have serfs to wash their Govt Limosines, have bowed to pressure from car washers such as my wife who found it difficult to hoist a pail of water to the car roof. Our four hour drive down the coast on Friday may have been easier if we had used the boat instead of the car, Non stop belting down with rain all the way down and 95% of the way back on Sunday. However, it was nice to visit our #2 son at his 10 acre waterfront property (With room for a pony, true)and of course the flora and fauna, visiting Roos and other misc wildlife and the occasionally sighting of waccy baccy. Yesterday we had a smidgin of sunshine(ten minutes) today since Midnight no rain but completely overcast, the temp steady on 18 f, so I was reading is the ideal Temp for daytime Boudoir activity, ...

From the Daily Gaggle Special correspondent In Beijing, A,Carr. BEIJING: If some one's intestines are protruding from an open abdominal wound, should you: A. Put them back in place; B. Do nothing; or, C. Cover them with some kind of container and fasten it around the body? The above is not from a first-year medical school exam, but is one of the 100 questions that locals and foreigners alike could find on China's written driver's license exam. (The answer, by the way, is C.) Test candidates are given a booklet of 800 test questions, 100 of which appear on the actual exam. While the questions dealing with traffic signs are universally understood, others have singularly Chinese characteristics. Sometimes two of the three answers could be equally right, or the answer that is considered right is obviously false. Take the following example. "What should a driver do when he needs to spit while driving? A. Spit through the window. B. Spit into a piece of waste paper, then pu...

It hasn't rained in this neck of the woods for 32 days. Heaps of sunshine blue skies scorching heat and Bush fires have been the order of things, then the change came last evening with a brisk south easterly wind bringing relief, although the wind was not helping the people in Victoria 1000 kilometers in the south of OZ where enormous cost in lives and property has devastated the state. This morning arrived with overcast skies and and a few bright patches later, however, the wind had dropped to light airs but cool enough for me to decide to wash the car and water the garden and plant a few seeds(Now the Cats have departed). I haven't had my usual siesta to day - far too busy with chores one cannot do when the temperature becomes oppressive, ( Never mind Tim , you won't need the Air/Con now). At ten thirty PM, finished suffering a rerun of Indiana Jones 4 on Fox, #1 Son announces "Dad its pissing down outside and I can hear thunder", I told him it was the best plac...

DAD. ITS TIM CALL ME, NEED TO ORGANIZE AN AIR CONDITIONER. SO I DON'T DIE. Vest said... Tim: Go to your local cheapo store and purchase a cheap Chinese fabricated fan(some Assembly required). If confused contact 'B' your friend, at United Assemblies. Your mother and I shopping yesterday purchased a 40cm fan from the reject shop, costing $15-00, I assembled said fan in 20 minutes. The new fan was a replacement for the fan I gave you when you moved out on Tuesday, it came from my blogging room (Office). I am finding it comfortable on the first notch; although the outside temp has reached 38 deg Cel, the Loungeroom Air-con is not turned on. So pop out on your Bike and buy another fan and dont be a wimp. Final costing for your move borne by your dear mother and yours truly- $644-00, this will be written off and join all previous write offs and monetary muggings. BTW Tim, thank your lucky stars you are not living in the Uk, where everyone is sticking red hot pokers in their beer...

Gratis living with Mater and Pater (Hopefully) will be a thing of the past for our much loved # V son. He has moved to Muswellbrook in N S W, which is 167 kilometers distant. To soften the blow and assist his departure Mater and Pater were gouged for another half grand(well Spent). We are once again 'Catless', the catproof wire netting in the garden is no more, and the 30'x12' shed now houses the former contents of the Dble/Gar which is now useable. We shall also have in excess of 150 bucks extra of disposable wkly income. The news of his impending departure came as a relief, despite the scorching weather and the double journey on Tuesday; which finally ended 4am yesterday - Wednesday 4th. Sleep deprivation took its toll with the blogging yesterday. Another scorcher today with more promised. Sorry but I keep nodding off, so i'll get back to you soon.

Graffiti girl, 18, jailed three months on a first offence. AN 18-year-old woman sentenced to three months jail for a single "tag" she scrawled in Sydney's Hyde Park has branded the penalty "ridiculous". Cheyane Back yesterday slammed the sentence handed down by Magistrate Ian McRae - but vowed never to paint her graffiti signature "2shie" - or anything else - on public property again. "I think (the sentence) was absolutely ridiculous for my first charge and for something so small," Back said after being released on bail. Now that more details have emerged - read on below - we are running a poll on the issue. Vote here and send your feedback underneath the story. meaning Comment. "But I'll never do anything like it again. I would clean it off, I'll apologise, I'll do anything. I was shocked and scared," she continued. "Jail is a big step. I've been sitting in that place (the cells) too long and it's absolutel...

Well here we go again.the last post which I shall try to remember disappeared forever on writing the last paragraph, so much for blogger save, try as I May to retrieve said post I remained calm except for a few Japanese swearwords. Trying to recall what was written previously is near impossible but I shall give it a go, but cut it short. My visit to the Vascular doc on Tuesday was Ok, my next visit on April 28 may include a prep for more surgery soon after, thereby stuffing up our proposed visit to the UK this coming summer, however,being alive is important if one has to travel. Last night we watched A rerun of an old movie 'Zulu' about the battle at Rorkes Drift in 1879 ? 65 years before the end of WW2, which brings to mind the end of WW2 64 years ago, and particularly today Jan 29 which is etched in my mind for all time. The interview with the Clark committee - a bunch of federal bureaucrats with limited knowledge of any subject matter, related to whether us the Brits were en...

A Japanese Modern Parable. ( Company Toyota ) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 7 people steering and 2 people rowing. Feeling a deeper study was in order; American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's man...

Fishy odour as PETA lures hapless donors THE stereotype of the harmless British eccentric, dressed, perhaps, in ill-fitting knitted clothing of his own design, was once a staple of comedy. It’s a pity that today’s eccentrics are not as benign. Take the nauseating international lobbying groups such as Greenpeace and more recently, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, which calculatingly target those in whose veins flows the milk of human kindness - and then siphon off as much of that milk as possible before the hapless donors discover they have been hit by professional leeches. There is little Greenpeace will not do to raise funds from people whose only flaw is that they cannot comprehend that an organisation which boasts its good intentions would actually fabricate untruths and falsify evidence to bolster its extremist environmental campaigns. It has been serially caught out with its fraudulent claims that certain industries have released dioxins, notably the Nu-Farm fe...

Hamas feeding kids a TV diet of hatred ISRAEL’S Operation Cast Lead is unfolding like a familiar soap opera on the nightly news. A series of Palestinian terrorists making blood-curdling threats against Israelis, a hail of missiles aimed at Israeli civilian targets, retaliatory strikes against the terrorists - who unfailingly seek to shelter behind innocent civilians - followed by scenes of weeping parents at crowded hospitals. It is a plot line designed to soften the hardest heart. Unfortunately, those who buy the tear-jerking material unquestioningly are being duped. No one, let alone a parent raised in a Western culture, could imagine placing children directly in harm’s way or encouraging impressionable infants to worship death but that is what the thugs and murderers responsible for the slaughter in Gaza have been doing. It is an Islamist thing and Palestinian TV, often subsidised by the United Nations and European Union, is full of it. In regular drama directed at kindergarten-age...

Still sore in places I shall not mention, this is to be expected so I have been informed; mainly by those who have witnessed the experience of like sufferers but not suffered themselves. Having woken from my op, my first reaction was I had been kicked in the goolies by a horse. I cannot record any moments of joy or hilarity during my stay in Gosford hospital despite the overall high efficiency of the staff, particularly a male nurse originally from Sri Lanka. On the down side was blonde 40 nurse vinegar tits, to whom I smilingly delivered a sentence of well chosen words on my departure. The after care has been provided by nearest and dearest and calls from the community nurse. Today I shall venture forth to the shops, the walking may assist my present sluggish gait. I have not had a 'Drink' for 27 days, water and tea yes. I have now lost seven kilos within the same time frame, I am also eating less but enough, hopefully the trend will continue. Here is a timely reminder of the ...

Most motorists have their own anecdotal stories to tell of police cars brazenly flouting the traffic laws for no apparent reason. Now there is hard evidence that these are not just stories. The revelation that last financial year 1433 police cars were caught breaking the road rules without reason is worryingly high, given there are about 16,000 officers in NSW. But it should be kept in perspective - the lead-foot officers behind the wheel did not get off without consequence. They had to pay their fines, a combined $345,904, and they lost demerit points too, as would any other motorist. And they were subject to internal investigations by safe driver committees, which is entirely appropriate. But the behaviour of the minority is unhelpful to the overall objectives of reducing the road toll. There is already building resentment among some motorists about the punitive measures used in NSW to enforce the road rules. State Government policies have been severe, from double-demerit point weeke...

This says it all!!!! >> CHRISTMAS IN CANBERRA >> >> There will be no Nativity Scene in Canberra this year! >> The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in >> Australia 's Capital this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reasons. >> Our Govt's reason. They simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the >> Nation's Capital. And a search for a Virgin continues. >> There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable. Oi Kev! When's this Ruddy 'Help the impoverished retailer hand out' gonna show up. We can't do a Mrs Nicholson 'Spend - Spend - Spend without the loot. On the home front. Vest, that's me, visited the Gosford hospital today for my pre admission routine checkup, It reminded me of the joining routine when drafted to a new ship or establishment while in the R N, only slight diff was the people were more pleasant at the hospital....

Teach the children - Sheik's vile lesson of hate. December 11, 2008 12:00am A GROUP founded by a Muslim extremist who encourages children to kill themselves for Allah plans to build a huge complex in Sydney to teach young people Islam. In what it says is a world first, the Global Islamic Youth Centre is trying to raise more than $6 million to build a giant "prayer, learning and sporting" facility in Liverpool. It has already raised $700,000 towards a $1m land purchase. The organisation says it expects the local Muslim population to almost double to 20,000 in the next decade and notes that a third of the population is under 19. Education in hate for 'tender hearts' It also says it wants to attract youth from across Sydney. The GYIC was founded by Sheik Feiz Mohammad and others in 2000 to "cater for the physical, social, educational and religious needs, especially for the youth and the children, in accordance with the teachings of the Quran". Sheik Feiz ...

From part one posted 12 7 08 continues---- The paucity of evidence Without bodily remains, it is impossible to affirm that a person is dead, let alone determine the manner in which he or she died. At least officially, there is no Hitler corpse because in 1970, so the Soviets/Russians maintain, the presumptive Hitler remains were macerated and intermixed with the remains of 10 other persons— Updated information inserted: Creative Dentistry section will be continued later: __allegedly Hitler's wife Eva, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, the Goebbels's six children and General Hans Krebs—and buried in the grounds of a KGB installation in Magdeburg, East Germany. This was done ostensibly to preclude the possibility of a burial site developing into a Nazi pilgrimage centre. This story is an obvious deception, however. The Soviets hardly lacked the space to store the remains in the USSR, where there was no danger of a Hitler cult emerging. Its function can only hav...

Subject: FW: A MUST READ TA. simple stroke detection you could save a life STROKE:Remember The 1st Three Letters....S..T..R.. A nurse sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. Please read: STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .....she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pmIngrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die.... they end up in a helpless, hopel...

Hi, Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world? I've just signed a petition to prevent the scheme that will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally block up to one in 12 legitimate sites, will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped. The government of the day may add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme. Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. Can you join me and take action on the net today to save the net? http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442 Thanks! ------------------------------------------ 'Waving Goodbye to a Thousand Flies'. By JL Spencer. Click the Book Pic at top right for Purchase info. Vest has received more books from the publisher, a...

December 02, 2008 12:00am FIRST they were the permanent mark of the working class and then celebrities made them cool. But now it seems our love of tattoos is over. Most Australians aged between 18 and 70, believe body art is a big turn-off. More than half believe tattoos on the opposite sex make them less attractive. And it seems women are more forgiving than men. A surprising high percentage of men find tattoos on women unattractive, while a large percentage of women think that tattoos are not attractive on men. I would be turned off ANGELINA JOLIE AND HER TATTOOS for example(if the opportunity came about) Just who is getting their body permanently marked is changing, with tattoos beginning to appeal to a different type of person. Once only seen on the working class, tattoos are now more liked by higher income earners, Mainly those with less responsibilities. Those seeking long term commitment would be advised to avoid these Gilded lilies and larrikins. About 5 per cent of lower inco...