Menzies

Damn, damn, damn, He was always so upbeat in the face of some terrible times. Rest in peace Tim, and you'll be missed from the forums. Menz.

Nope, I just assumed that if someone was replying to a post today they wouldn't be doing so on a post that was over two months old.

How much snow did they get? It was mid-20s here this morning and I moved to Florida to get away from that!

From me and mine to you and yours. Enjoy the day with friends and family, and Christ.

You need a shave bad.

Hello 'der.

Trying to persuade the missus to come down to the 2012 show - more because we need a break than a boat! So we may be in, will know more after Christmas.

Jags did them proud yesterday.... Some pics. The link to the full set is below. There was a message from this marine in Iraq to his mom and pop, then he walked out! http://s329.photobucket.com/albums/l362/PASSAGEBOAT/Jaguars%209-11-2011/?albumview=slideshow

Oh, I'm sure we can soon change that!!

Congratulations! But why does your husband have the ring on his finger?

Wonder if we can get Captain Sparrow to join!!

So how's the sustainability business Davie? Who? Oh must be my mistake. I thought you went by the name of Dave M, worked for a life sciences company, name begins with M, I even thought I have a handsome pic of you. But since you say it's not you then obviously I have all that totally wrong. Though if you could just confirm that, because I don't believe in sharing forum members personal stuff on any site. If it is you I will mind my own. If it isn't I will own up to my silly mistake and post who I thought you were for a laugh.

So how's the sustainability business Davie?

mob, I have learned, "over there", to follow the... Sucks, sometimes, but it's the deal... Which rules? The Forum's, or the ones a Mod makes up on a whim and apply inconsistently?

What a real nice guy. And he made the Ryder Cup what it is today. ================================== Seve Ballesteros Dies: Golf Legend Passes Away At 54 By PAUL LOGOTHETIS 05/ 7/11 02:53 AM ET MADRID -- Golf great Seve Ballesteros has died. He was 54. According to a statement on his website, Ballesteros died early Saturday surrounded by his family at his home in the northern Spanish town of Pedrena. The Ballesteros family said it "is very grateful for all the support and gestures of love that have been received since Seve was diagnosed with a brain tumour on 5th October 2008." On Friday, his family announced that the five-time major winner had suffered "severe deterioration" in his recovery from a cancerous brain tumor. Ballesteros fainted at Madrid's international airport while waiting to board a flight to Germany on Oct. 6, 2008, and was subsequently diagnosed with the brain tumor. One of his operations was a 6 1/2-hour procedure to remove the tumor and reduce swelling around the brain. After leaving the hospital, he had chemotherapy. He had undergone four operations in late 2008. One of the biggest stars in Spain, even though golf was never a popular sport, news of his downturn transcended to other sports. Tennis star Rafael Nadal called Ballesteros "one of the greats of this country without a doubt, a reference point for all Spanish athletes." Ballesteros looked thin and pale while making several public appearances in 2009 after being given what he referred to as the "mulligan of my life." He rarely had been seen in public since March 2010, when he fell off a golf cart and hit his head on the ground. His few appearances or public statements were usually in connection through work with his Seve Ballesteros Foundation to fight cancer. After lobbying to have the Ryder Cup expanded to include continental Europe in 1979, Ballesteros helped beat the United States in 1985 to begin two decades of dominance. Ballesteros retired in 2007 because of a long history of back pain, turning his focus to golf course design.

Not all of them. #'s 2 &5 were fair and reasonable. This is what we are missing. http://www.thehulltruth.com/bilge/349337-why-do-women-hate-c-word-so-much.html Classy stuff huh? you will have to C&P that - can't be read unless you are a member.

I have bookmarked the on-line version of the local rag of my home town - Derry, Ireland. Just checking it tonight and saw this article. Thought you might be interested in one very famous Irishman's impression of America. And as I read it I think he got a few thing spot on - even today never mind the 1800's!! ================================================== When the people of Derry went Wilde for Oscar Published on Friday 6 May 2011 08:01 When the soon-to-be literary great - one of the most infamous figures of his, or of any era - took to the stage of Derry’s Opera House in early 1884 his star was already on the ascendancy, writes the Journal’s DAVID WILSON. The first performance of his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, and his notorious libel trial were still more than a decade away. But the crowds did not flock to the Opera House to see an unknown, for Oscar Wilde, despite the lack of success for his early works, was quickly becoming one of the most celebrated people of the day. Wilde’s visit to Derry came midway through the second of two lecture tours of America, tours that allowed him to earn a living and which increasingly brought him to the public’s attention. It was upon arriving in the States in late 1881 that he is said to have told a US customs official “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” His reputation was growing, and he was fast coming to be revered in equal measure, for his wit and his flamboyance - by the early 1880s he had become the epitome of the new aesthetic movement putting its stamp on the arts. Upon his return to his London home, and with a much reduced income, it was time to take to the road again, and embark on another lecture tour. The Derry Journal of Monday, January 31, 1883, advertises Wilde’s visit to the city. “Mr J F Warden has the honour to announce that Mr Oscar Wilde will deliver two lectures at the Opera House, Londonderry on Thursday and Friday, January 3rd and 4th,” the front page advertisement reads. On Thursday, Wilde would speak on “The House Beautiful”, a subject matter that had proven highly successful while he was in the States, while on the Friday an audience would be treated to his “Personal Impressions of America.” On Monday January 7 1884, the Derry Journal carried a full and comprehensive report of the second of those two lectures. “ There was a large and fashionable attendance, the house being well filled,” the ‘Journal reported. “At exactly eight o’clock the curtain rose and Mr Wilde appeared on stage. He met with a cordial welcome, which he acknowledged by gracefully bowing to the audience.” Beginning the lecture, the Derry crowd were told they would not hear any “ useful information about America - neither its longitude or latititude or it chief imports and exports.” Instead they would hear only Wilde’s personal impressions of the largest speaking English country in the world “If he was asked what most struck him on first landing” the Journal records, “ he would say it was this, that if Americans were not the most well dressed people in the world - and he was afraid they were not - still they were most comfortably dressed.” Wilde’s subject matter moved quickly from first impressions to a more considered view. “One of the great peculiarities of the country was that every true born American was always in a hurry, “ Wilde is reported as saying. “No true born American ever saunters or sits down. They were always rushing to catch trains or attend to business of some kind.” This, it seems, did not sit well with Wilde. “For that trait in their character, people in this country thought they were not a romantic race,” he tells the Derry audience. “Really romantic people were never in time to catch anything, and as a rule , were not particular whether they caught a train or not.” The Derry crowd heard that the lack of, or differing form of romance that Wilde found in the US, puzzled him. “It was not the romance of Shakespeare -it was the romance of commerce,” Wilde says. “Everywhere there is the great rush of commerce.” This was not, Wilde deduces, conducive to the type of beauty seen in European cities. Instead this American beauty was to be found in the scale of industrialisation. “No one ever realised how beautiful modern machinery was until he went to America, “ Wilde is said to have said. Most pertinent among the new fangled technological developments stateside, Wilde says, is the use of the electric light, which when “ placed on poles of considerable height, lit up the streets in a most wonderful manner.” “One notices about the American landscape that everything is twice as large as anything should be “ he says. “Standing on the top of Fifth Avenue, one can read the name on a brass door plate of a house three and a half miles away.” Wilde goes onto criticise and laud American life in equal measure, in a lecture interrupted by laughter and applause. Abraham Lincoln, and the early father of American science are praised for their influence on the rest of the world. Niagara Falls, often the destination for honeymooning newlyweds, seems to Wilde to be the “ first disappointment in American married life.” American men, Wilde says, are more than matched by American women. “The American girl is one of the fascinating little despots that it would be possible to find in a country with free republican institutions. “Men never knew the charms of absolute tyranny until he was taught it by the young lady of this country.”

Have they started cleaning up the biggest issue - which is not the members, but moderators who have been there so long that they believe that they can do anything with impunity?

Try using his contact page to send him an email rather than PM and see if that works.

Halleluiah! And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

Yep - he's back a couple of days and there's your bilge fecking up a thread. Good job.

And that, sir, is why you do annual testing of your DRP/BCP!

Yup. Even if the bankrupt builder from Rhode Island changes his mind I wouldn't grace the site until they can his arse as a moderator. Guy thinks the site belongs to him.

Really? I have the boat, RIB and jet ski insured with them. Never heard any conversation they were no longer covering?

Knees