L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word Drive a herd of woolly jumpers through Melbourne! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word Woolly mammoths would be better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word Be serious, man -- where'd he get a-hold on mammoths in Oz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word Hey, when you're proposing revolutionary acts, might as well dream big and then whittle down to something workable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Ohhh, so that's how that works!? Explains many things, it does ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word I mean, take the Gunpowder Plot. Blow up the whole House of Lords while the King is addressing it? Breathtaking idea. Worthy of player characters, even. But the minor detail of how you're going to keep that much gunpowder secret before you set it off? Err, umm, .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word They should've used Thermite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word i think the woolly mammoths will be replaced by sheep. Much easier to find in Oz I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word Sheep for cheap. Agh, I hate that sales campaign ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word I mean' date=' take the Gunpowder Plot. Blow up the whole House of Lords while the King is addressing it? Breathtaking idea. Worthy of player characters, even. But the minor detail of how you're going to keep that much gunpowder secret before you set it off? Err, umm, ....[/quote'] and not get caught. which proved that Guy Fawkes was a PC not a NPC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word They should've used Thermite. or Lewes bombs (that is more Australian) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Re: The Last Word What did Lewes do, and did he ever shake hands with Ned Kelly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word No Ned was well preserved before Lewes was born (I think). Lewes was the trainer for the SAS (yes during WW2). He invented a bomb with with both incendiary and explosiveness, and light enough to be carried in bulk behind enemy lines to blow up aircraft on airfields. more information - wikilink And Jock Lewes was an Australian. The SAS is what it is because of Jock's early influence and training methodology. As proof, one of the two shades of blue of the SAS is after Jock's association with Oxford University (the other is Cambridge after founder David Sterling). It just occures to me that this essential British institution was founded by a Scot, and both and Aussie and an Irishman (Paddy Mayne) were principal members of 'L' Detatchment/the Regiment during WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well it is a British institution -- a mongrel race if ever there was one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Another English tradition: let others do the hard work, then take the credit as a "British" success? Hmm. That's getting close to the ethnic slur zone. And it glosses over much (though not all) of WW1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Slurry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Hmm. I hadn't thought about that word in quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word You're welcome. Imagine the surface of Titan. Or the walkway below my window a month ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Slurry is to slur as pantaloons are to loons. Backwards. Or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Re: The Last Word Scottish Inventors and Inventions The average Englishman in the home he call his castle slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland. En-route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland. He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland. At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland. During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland. Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots. He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorized its translation. He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world. He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland. If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland. Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland. Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask: "Wha's Like Us?" From here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Re: The Last Word There ya go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Re: The Last Word thereyou go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Re: The Last Word Nope -- still sittin' still, waiting for me to make breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Re: The Last Word breakfast at 5pm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Re: The Last Word There you go, being all up-side-down again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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