What the heck is going on ?

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  1. brit 50

    brit 50 Member

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    Tell me to shut up

    Ok, Ken, you may be but we are not, are we, no.
    Tailgater, Cussler, may have, bad memory for names, watch too much docu tv and read too much crap, tell you this though, ask yourselves this, since when has your senator (or whatever you call your gov rep) or global company ever been slightly interested in the welfair of this planet? is it because theres money to be had scaring people with the "global warming" theory (and remember this, it is JUST a theory) got to look at the bigger picture not just whats happened to the weather in the last 100 yrs! not so long ago England was under nearly 2 miles of ice and man had nowt to do with that little episode. When someone starts shouting loudly about something I start asking whats in it for you and your backers?

    Just started back on the truck after the recent events (just to keep this post truck related);)
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  2. Tailgater

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    Brit,
    I head on the news yesterday that there were signs of warming on Mars. You reckon those SUVs that Al Gore blames with global warming are having an affect on Mars? I don't think so. I agree with you 100%. This old world has a mnd of its own.
    Cussler has a book called Polar Shift that I just finished reading. It deals with exactly what you are saying.
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  3. brit 50

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    magnetic shifts

    could get into long discutions on this subject and would love to but dont want to bore people, shifting and the drastic effect it has on the planet can be proved, global warming cant
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  4. 54chevtruck

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    See guy's even the Brit wants the Eagles to win on Saturday. Way to go Brit !!! By the way not sure if you know but it's we are speaking of Football America style not that cricket style or what ever you guy's do over there.
     
  5. brit 50

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    Do you mean the game where you have to put bullet proof padding all over you in case you get a scratch? or the real mans game of rugby where the only safety gear you can wear (and its optional) is a strap round your head to stop your ears getting ripped off!!!
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  6. mel 55_1

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    And, since the Oz have just recovered the Ashes - keep off the cricket you'll really upset us!
     
  7. Tailgater

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    Bear with me, please. What the heck did that mean?
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    Translation

    If you recall they had tornadoes in London a few month's ago. I think that's the British way of saying, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
     
  9. brit 50

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    off you go

    Just click your heels son, click your heels.
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  10. Tailgater

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    Oh. I guess I am just confused. Football, soccer, and some little insect that makes funny noises at night. I still don't know what that has to do with anything.;)
     
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    That's what happens when you let colonies play!

    Was it India that beat England in cricket (thus the ashes) and was it Austrailia (Oz) that got it back for you? Inquiring minds want to know!
     
  12. mel 55_1

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    Well, now that you've asked, this is a bizzare tale...

    The Ashes is an England and Australia (Oz) Test cricket series, best of 5 matches. Back in 1882 after Oz beat England in England for the first time, there was an obituary in The Sporting Times along the lines of cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Oz. So in the 1883 tour of Oz a group of women in Melbourne gave a small urn with ashes in it to the England captain. No one now knows exactly what ashes are in the urn, could be a cricket ball, could be a possum. But anyway, the urn now sits in a museum in London and is nominally held by whoever wins the series. The Oz won the last series 5 -0. England now have to wait until 2009 before they get the chance to win them back.

    Simple.
     
  13. 54chevtruck

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    Thanks for clearing that one up Mel. I know I was one of many wondering.
     
  14. brit 50

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    The ashes in the urn are the remains of the bails (the two short sticks that ballance on the three sticks that are the stumps) or so the legend is told, the urn is so fragile now its hardly ever moved as it was originaly meant as a joke not a long lasting trophy.
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    Wierd Weather You Say ?

    It sure is ! I was a-Uraling wednesday night and by friday , 02:00 it was 36° F

    Go figure .

    At least my old 235 still roars to life in an instant :)
     

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