wombat_1

wombat_1

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Reply to A ban on fishing. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm a Pisces. I've done my share of fishing (underwater) and hunting (mostly ducks) and often cleaning up injured animals shot by people who couldn't hit the side of a barn with a Vulcan gun ..... a Kangaroo frozen in a spotlight just stands there and these morons still couldn't get off a clean head shot! As for fish, try watching a Japanese long liner hauling sharks aboard and cutting off the tail and fins, then throwing the complete fish, alive and kicking overboard .... then we have t

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Reply to Who makes the best fries? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

At Spa Francorchamps in Belgium (the Grand Prix circuit!) almost every little chip stand sells great 'fries' .... real chips! After a week you come away deaf (the cars) and looking like Mr Potatohead! Burgers .... my SO of course .... but she uses real ground beef instead of that plastic crud! <img src="http://images.

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Reply to Paint Shop Pro 8 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mine arrived today (Wednesday Oz time).... another 'pre-release' order and a bonus for beta-testers .... a better than usual upgrade IMHO. Cost was A$119.00 for the upgrade (about US$65.00) and I'm happy to pay it, it will be a bit of a learning curve so my 7.4 proggie will stay for some time. Certainly the few bugs in Beta7 seem to have been sorted. Just what I need, another excuse to avoid work

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Reply to ANZAC day in Oz. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

paax, the Canadians were mauled needlessly at Dieppe in 1943 ... as were most of the forces participating in what was a 'raid in strength' .... pretty much a 'Commando Operation' on a fairly large scale. During the real Invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the bulk of the British and Commonwealth forces landed at Sword, Gold and Juno beaches, not quite as heavily defended and certainly less difficult terrain than the areas were the main US forces came ashore .... Omaha beach in particular.

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Reply to ANZAC day in Oz. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jafo, just returned from my 'family's' annual gathering. My father is too frail to march unsupervised , so our group took him aboard, a very honoured 'ex-officia 7RAR temporary member' .... to add to the general sombre feeling of the day he lost one of his few remaining 'Catalina Club' friends last Wednesday. The 'originals' from the so-called 'War to end all Wars' have almost all faded away and the

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Reply to Overdog worship in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

moshi, damn good comparison! For an exercise I ran a Frontpage project through Dreamweaver MX ...... FAT CODE!!! Adobe seem to be moving ahead, noted that Acrobat 6 is about to be or has already been released. <img src="http://

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Reply to Overdog worship in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Karma, there are a couple of Word add-ons that integrate the pdf format into Word 10 (or whatever version XP is) and it might be probable that MS would build that into Office 11. Just found one ...."Office Ready Pro 3". Frogboy...cranky????? Not a bit! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0

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Reply to Daijiro Kato....... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

BkB ... Mordaunt served during the Seven Years War..... he did pretty well to live to that age I would say. I always regarded those few lines as relating to being an ideal to live by, not 'making a name' in the conventional sense. Nothing like the "Piranhas" you allude to. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smi

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Reply to Daijiro Kato....... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

'Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name!' Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730 - 1809) And still relevant to this day.............. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border

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Reply to Daijiro Kato....... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Peff...NOT even remotely funny! > Try using that type of rationale on the Shuttle crew and see how entertaining people think you are! Jafo, word is (via the industry insiders) the thing nipped up .... and in a 240K sweeper not much could be done. Come to think of it, there must be more than a few circuits that need looking at, Bazz would have been the first to agree. But then again, racers bei

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