Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: dougal99 on December 01, 2019, 04:53:44 pm
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It seems one of our members is so famous he has a town named after him :-))
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FAME at last bet all you are Jealous of my fame...THANKS Dougal for bringing it to everyones attention .
Dave AKA Stavros
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You are still 27km away Dave - is that a safe distance? :}
Colin
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defo not far enough from some of the moderators on this forum it seems Colin
Dave
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Yes, seems so.
Colin
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Oh Colin how right you are {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
Dave
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Strange isn't it?....now we find Dave's ancestors were Greek Demi-Gods?
I always assumed this member with the name that sounds like car panel glue...coch y bonddu was from up North nearer to Peter ;) .........no, I meant our Moderator Peter
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NAH NORTH WALES and proud of it BOYIO O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0
Dave
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Well we certainly knew it was North of somewhere :-X now where is my Map of the World?......... %)
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When you find it Derek it will be upside down so make allowances...
Colin
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Oh Colin in Dick Emery's words you are awful....oh eck we shall have to explain that one to Derek
Dave
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Well in NZ/OZ [Great Lands below the Equator] we had a popular Music Group called Split Enz.....& a song written by the world famous Finn Brothers was a title..
Six Months in a Leaky Boat..........sort of reminds me of Dave's planned voyage going back home to see the Relos {-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7DgREshAk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7DgREshAk)
If you have time listen to the lyrics.......couldn't get much more nautically based :-))
[You may not have heard it in the UK as I understand it was banned due to a perceived demoralisation of your British Troops & the Falklands war]
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Oh Colin in Dick Emery's words you are awful....oh eck we shall have to explain that one to Derek
Dave
No need Dave, Dick Emery was popular here too O0
Peter.
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PHEW thank goodness for that Peter you know what Derek is like O0
Oh and Derek I always wear a pommie hat you know the one it has corks on it so MY boat won't sink
Dave
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When you find it Derek it will be upside down so make allowances...
Colin
It's down there at the bottom of the world. %%
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Well in NZ/OZ [Great Lands below the Equator] we had a popular Music Group called Split Enz.....& a song written by the world famous Finn Brothers was a title..
Six Months in a Leaky Boat..........sort of reminds me of Dave's planned voyage going back home to see the Relos {-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7DgREshAk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7DgREshAk)
If you have time listen to the lyrics.......couldn't get much more nautically based :-))
[You may not have heard it in the UK as I understand it was banned due to a perceived demoralisation of your British Troops & the Falklands war]
Nice route map, but all three are in Cyprus rather than Greece. Probably somewhere in Kykkos.
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On the subject of Bethesda , the name and location brought the following to my mind.
(https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2019/12/02/fullsizeoutput_103.jpg) (https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/ZtGnQ)
A long time ago at college but some things embed for centuries , anyone know the connection ?
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Wasn't there a model boat meet at the Slate Museum years ago?
Ned
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Hi Netland yes there was and of course I ran it with Help from Steam Boat Phil and Barty 230,wish I cold afford to put another on but Alas not let alone my health would not allow it.
Dave
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The name Bethesda was embedded in my mind years ago from Bible studies as a water pool where a man was healed by Miracle intervention :o
So looking for this pool of water to help coch y bonddu find his roots leads us to a stone structure, reported as the Pool of Bethesda
Disappointingly this pool is not your modern typical 100M with lanes marked, so if he [Dave that is] intends running model speed boats he may need to enrol and train in stonework at a College of Masons or a Temple of Free Stones {-) so to enable him to make suitable modification or and water proof the pool
Derek
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On the subject of Bethesda , the name and location brought the following to my mind.
(https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2019/12/02/fullsizeoutput_103.jpg) (https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/ZtGnQ)
A long time ago at college but some things embed for centuries , anyone know the connection ?
That takes me back to about 1960 :embarrassed: First year College. "Mitchells Building Construction, Elementary Course"
It came in useful when I was involved in re slating part of the Victorian State Parliament building with good Welsh slates %%
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Widening it out a bit, what other fame have you guys and ladies experienced?
What has been your - "15 minutes of Fame"?
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<:( <:( <:( <:( I am out famed by SWMBO, 1-way English Channel swimmer 11hrs 33 mins, Around Jersey 9hrs 41 mins and current English Record holder ( last time we checked), 3 way Coniston lake also current record holder.. All in a traditional standard swimming costume.. What chance have I got !! <:( <:( <:(
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My disembodied voice once featured on local BBC TV, accompanying a minute-long shot of my right hand swirling a pint-glass of Belvoir Brewery's latest grog. I'm still waiting for the royalty cheque. ;D
DM
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I was once run over by an aircraft carrier but I will not admit to the details.
Colin
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Oh well, seeing as you asked so nicely. :-)
I've done nine TV programmes in recent years, every time the media wants someone to talk about the Advanced Passenger Train they seem to call me. Must have something to do with the fact that I was the Tilt System Development Engineer on that project and still look after the train to this day, even though it's a museum exhibit now at Shildon in Co. Durham.
Even further back I did a 'Tomorrow's World' episode with the late, great Raymond Baxter when I was working in the motor industry.
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I was once run over by an aircraft carrier but I will not admit to the details.
Colin
Steam does Not give way to Sail in the Solent {-)
Little yachts and Aircraft Carriers must not
occupy the same piece of water unless the
yacht flies the White Ensign, then rules of Seniority
Apply :-))
Ned
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I did my parachute training course at RAF Brize Norton in 1978 straight after Prince Charles did his and had the same jump instructors. He took a short cut and missed P company, how convenient {-)
https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/retronaut/prince-charles-and-his-brother-become-paratroopers/
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Alas Ned, you have a long memory. <:(
Colin
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A was a foreman electrician on the construction of RAF Fylingdales that is currently tracking SANTA {-)
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It was reported that in 1987, a photograph of my face with a red X over it hung in Parliament House Canberra in the Office of the Minister for Defence [affectionately called Kimbo]
Kimbo was working for Wezel Nose [the PM, as he was known] and any form of Industrial Disruption at any Commonwealth Establishment was forbidden
Well this was OK until the Acting Senior Foreman Grade III in the Weapons Production Group at our RAN Fleet Base spoke firmly 'if bluntly' and made a small decision that saw some workers [about 2000] at GID go on strike for what they termed as verbal and excessive abuse to an Iron Worker [who just happened to be the Iron Workers Union Delegate for the Weapons Production Group O0 ]
After a few days, the Office of Kimbo demanded that the matter be resolved and if it took the Foreman concerned eating humble pie and making a Formal apology [to the Iron Worker Delegate in front of The Combined Union Shop Committee in the presence of the General Manager who was also a Rear Admiral] then so be it...
So the Office of the General Manager [Rear Admiral] scripted my humble words, all was said, we all had a cup of tea and all was forgotten
Until that is, some six months later when all of the Workers at GID walked off and on strike .......yes that same Foreman was at it again
However on this occasion, the investigation found a clear misunderstanding of content and the said Foreman was give a Well Done :-)) for maintaining the security of our Nation......however I don't necessarily know that Wezel Nose exactly saw it in the same spirit
[Actual names of the persons involved have been changed to protect against any potential litigation {-) ]
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Ah, Raymond Baxter, there's a name to bring back memories. I remember him demonstrating a small one man hovercraft. Great fun, the only surface that it didn't hit in the studio was the ceiling. It didn't fly that high!
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Hi LJ did not see you at the St. Albans show this year? I am afraid Raymond Baxter was not for me I always thought he talked down to viewers.
Roy