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Fifty years ago?
Fifty?!?
Half a bluddy century?
No way.
Someone's been distorting the time field.
We need a Doctor.
Or maybe it's just me who does.
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Over that: it was released in '65, so that's 51 years now (Early Dec, 1965)
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First Beatles album I half way liked. Musta been when they started doing drugs? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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It was when they realised that they could use the same amount of time write songs that actually meant something, rather than just cobble together lyrics that appealed mainly to screaming girlies (who were p1ssing them off them more and more, as time went by).
I only noticed the date because Ritchie Cunningham made a documentary about them, recently. I was sure he said '66 -- but that might have been the US release.
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Oh, great.
Rub it in, why don't you?
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I like metamorphic rocks: the colours are slate of the art.
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That's pretty solid thinking right there
Sin tack ear lol
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Yes, you can take that for granite.
/ravi
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Ah, but many of those who produce rock aren't even anthropomorphic.
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My 'piggy bank' is a metal container which once came with a champagne bottle for the year 2000. Every week I drop whatever is left over in my wallet into it and it was quite full and really heavy, somewhere around 24 pounds.
Time to take the stuff to the bank. The result: 33 new 100€ bills for my collection.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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So ... you're saying that three grand is "pocket change" for you? 
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In a way, yes. Things did not always go so well and having a little reserve put aside was a bitter lesson I had to learn.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Can you lend me a couple of million euro till pay day? 
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Unfortunately not. If I had those, I would quit my job and start programming online games. And I would buy one of the last toys I always wanted, like a Lamborghini Aventador.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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So you've already got the helicopter and the private jet?
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Jets are boring and, looking around in the room, I have eight helicopters here. 
Two tiny trainers, three 450 size ready to fly, one 450 slowly turning into a scale Vietnam Huey and another scratch built 450 which will become a model of the Seaking 66 that pulled the Apollo 11 Astronauts out of the water. Last, the 550 is sitting on the microwave.
Occasionally I take an hour in a Huey simulator and, if I ever had a chance to really make use of it, it would not be beyond me to get myself a helicopter license. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I'm sitting in an hotel room, and I'm as jealous as Hell. 
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Already on the next job?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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A year when I have less than ten jobs is logged as "quiet".
My advice is to never become expert in anything -- but if you do, make sure people don't find out about it.
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CDP1802 wrote: it would not be beyond me to get myself a helicopter license.
'Tis an expensive hobby, that. My instructor described it as "turning money into noise" 
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That fits, but you also get a lot of wind and vibrations for your money.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I work sometimes on firefighting airbases. Some of the fixed-wing pilots refer to the helis as "50,000 components flying in close formation". I've had some fascinating times being shown over them, particularly the huge Aircrane and the ex-military hueys. And yes, being next to one taking off is an earth-shaking experience.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Some of the fixed-wing pilots refer to the helis as "50,000 components flying in close formation".
Newton would have cried if he had ever seen one and heard what each part is for.
Peter_in_2780 wrote: Aircrane
There were not many of them ever built and I never got to see one. But speaking of the engine sound: How do you like this old girl?[^] It's also a Sikorsky, one of the last that still flies in all Europe. The military paint job was for a movie and it appears at air shows. The home airport is nearby and perhaps I will get around to book a flight with it some time.
Peter_in_2780 wrote: ex-military hueys
The simulator I 'fly' in was for military Hueys and has been sold because the last Hueys are slowly disappearing. They are almost 50 years old now and the last ones still active are for SAR and also civil emergencies. Early last year there was a train accident and they called in every helicopter they could get to transport the passengers into the hospitals. Among them were also some of the old Hueys. They are old and cost too much to operate, but the pilots still like to fly them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Our firefighting fleet includes a lot of Huey derivatives, Bell 204, 212, 214, even a few 412s. The ex-Mil ones are "restricted", in that they are not allowed to carry passengers, just a pilot and a bucketload of water. Apparently the reason is the lack of service documentation on the ex-Mils.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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CDP1802 wrote: The military paint job was for a movie
Which movie was it that had Sikorskys being flown by the Germans in WW1?
I only ask so I'll know not to watch it.
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