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February 24 Today in history
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Gday... 1802 - Flinders discovers and names Port Lincoln in South Australia. 1984 - Australia's first completely successful heart transplant operation is performed, under the direction of Dr Victor Chang. 1991 - The Gulf War ground offensive of the Allied forces against I...
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February 22 Today in history
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Gday... 1857 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, is born. 1879 - Norman Lindsay, one of Australia's best-known artists, is born. 1962 - Australian icon, the 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin, is born. 1792 - The first land grant to convict James...
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HOW STRONG ARE YOU !!
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One person's rubbish is another person's treasure
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While at Greens Lake this year a few GNs were noticed retrieving "rubbish" from the garbage bin. Last year KA retrieved a table, two brooms and a broom handle from the skip at Greens. I was wondering what things others have retrieved from rubbish dumps, skips etc.
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I bought a dash cam to catch something like these
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http://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_1FzYg?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0
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You sick of hearing about her too ??
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Cootes off the road
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Gee, those who slagged off the ABC and supported the cowboys at Cootes a couple of weeks ago have been strangely silent now that the Cootes trucks have been pulled off the road for exactly the sort of maintenance problems detailed in the Four Corners report. I guess it's hard to post on here when you spe...
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February 23 Today in history
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Gday... 1685 - The great Baroque composer, Georg Händel, is born. 1955 - Floods begin in the Hunter Valley, Australia, ultimately claiming 25. 1994 - Jimmy Tambo, an indigenous Australian exploited by Barnum's Travelling Circus, is finally laid to rest, 110 years after he di...
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Things To Do Before You Get Old
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My N. Carolina mate is at it again, this time with a bunch of pics of things to do before you get old. However, as he points out, he didn't get old by doing silly things like this! Click here for the photo album.
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How to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity
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In light of Ken being banned from his local Coles supermarket, a friend sent me this, and I thought you might like to know how to really 'get things going'! 1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down. 2. On all your cheque stu...
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2 tonne 4x4 verse push bikes
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I was driving down our local street at the restricted speed limit of 50kph the other day, As I neared a Side street which was on my right hand side ( with a STOP sign ) a mob of cyclist started to drift across the road, one after the other, like a mob of sheep. I was forced to sound my horn and brake heavily to avo...
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Thrill Seeking Hitch Hiker
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-- Edited by Happy Camper on Friday 21st of February 2014 09:40:54 AM
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February 21 Today in history
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Gday... 1802 - Matthew Flinders' tragic encounter with dangerous waters leads to the naming of Cape Catastrophe, South Australia. 1802 - John Murray discovers Corio Bay, site of present-day Geelong in Victoria. 1947 - The first Polaroid camera is demonstrated by Edwin Lan...
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February 20 Today in history
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Gday... 1903 - Royal approval of the new Australian flag is finally gazetted. 1913 - The first peg marking the start of development of the city of Canberra is driven in by King O'Malley. 1981 - An inquest into the disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain finds that she was taken b...
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ANOTHER TRUE STORY
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One day, shortly after joining the PGA tour in 1965, Lee Trevino, professional golfer and married man, was at his home in Dallas, Texas, mowing his lawn as he always did. A lady driving by in a big expensive Cadillac stopped in front of his house, lowered the window and asked, "Excused me, do you sp...
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Pensioner not welcome at Coles Supermarket
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Im banned. Didn't like shopping there anyway. Yesterday I was at my local COLES store buying a large bag of Pedigree dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impu...
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February 13 Today in history
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Gday...1743 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist on Cook's first voyage, is born. 1923 - Charles Yeager, the first person to travel two and a half times the speed of sound, is born. 2008 - The Australian Government formally apologises to the Stolen Generations of Aborigi...
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Bird identification online?
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I usually have a "Morecomb" Field Guide to Australian birds in the glove-box of the car, and am disgusted with myself for leaving it behind this time. Having seen a new bird, I tried googling for a site which has pictures of birds organised similarly to a field guide... no luck so far, gettin...
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Honda Nut
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I thought this was quite good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxy4n0UT82o
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just a few things
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Hi guys, just wanted to share a few things I gathered from dads today I have a couple of his pipes,still with the smell a couple of lighters I had to fill all the time and a couple rocks gathered from a trip dad shouted my niece and I went to Turkey a few years ago.. all these things he owned but couldn't tak...
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