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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2022-03-29 09:23:27Copy HTML For all subjects |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-02-28 07:05:34Copy HTML One of the last surviving members of Bomber Command, pilot Colin Bell, has told how his station commander refused to ground his squadron of Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft despite the manufacturer warning it had to fix a potential engine fault. When asked what would happen if their engines failed on take-off, the commander replied in stark terms Then you die like an officer and a gentleman. They don't make them like that anymore. No, they don't. They were aptly named The Greatest Generation. |
MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-02-28 07:20:54Copy HTML Brave but reckless in risking men and machines unnecessarily? You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-02-28 07:31:03Copy HTML "The never have so many owed so much to so few" quote was for fighter command? What year during WWII was Colin Bell referring to when he got that order? Bomber command would have been bombing Germany & the situation not as urgent as the Battle of Britain, eh? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-02-28 07:41:10Copy HTML A gathering of owls is called a Parliament. Members of Parliament must be wise, eh? |
shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-01 02:33:56Copy HTML They sound more like a Gaggle of Geese.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-01 09:08:56Copy HTML They sound more like a Gaggle of Geese. A murder of crows A sounder of hogs A congress of baboons |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-01 09:57:57Copy HTML |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-01 09:59:21Copy HTML They sound more like a Gaggle of Geese. A murder of crows A sounder of hogs A congress of baboons My favourite, an exultation of skylarks |
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shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-01 10:55:41Copy HTML Them too.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-02 02:27:38Copy HTML Skylarks are Buicks. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-02 08:52:55Copy HTML And it’s no wonder they call it an exultation because the skylarks just hover above the field and sing their tiny little hearts out for hours. I used to have them in the field opposite me but that’s when it was just a field but for years now they’ve been farming the land and of course the skylarks just disappeared and I don’t think I have seen one anywhere for the last 20 years. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-02 10:29:28Copy HTML I have never seen or heard one. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-02 12:20:05Copy HTML Heard but rarely seen. They're tiny and fly so high that you can't see where the sound is coming from. I used to hear them in the summer on the way to work as I walked alongside Stafford Common.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-02 10:27:35Copy HTML Humans are the only primates with chins. Experts claim it is an evolutionary accident. Hmm, I have two. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-03-03 09:48:32Copy HTML You’re obviously blessed, Tom |
