chevin

Oh, poor, poor pirates! :clap2: I sailed through that area during the height of the cold war and you couldn't move without seeing either Russian or American war ships. Pirates would never have stood a chance there then! Indeed, it was a bit frightening for those of us going about our lawful business.

Yes, you are quite right mate. I reckon they should have stopped further migration into WA the day after I arrived. Is there really 12 of us here now? I missed the last census. Seriously though, just 30 years ago we were so far off the beaten track, one of the Western Australians at work chipped into a conversation about air ports and said, "Do you know, Perth airport now has 44 international flights a week?" I think that he really expected everyone to be really impressed by that!

Better ask Huegh Angler that when you explain to him just why you insulted him.

I guess that we can put one thing over Texans when it comes to the size of a state. Western Australia is a bit bigger than Texas. In fact you can get Texas, the British Isles, New Zealand and Japan in Western Australia and still have room to spare!

They must have big moles in Oregon because as I understood it, the mounds of earth are about 6 feet long and almost three feet wide. I got bitten by an English mole once and it bloody hurt. I would hate to get bitten by an Oregon mole! Especially as moles are one of the most aggressive animals on the planet!

Don't you think that you might owe Huegh Angler an apology? You insult him and then tell him to calm down when he responds! He was right, the dam is in Canada, Ken seemed to think that it was in the US.

I remember talking to a net friend who lived in Oregon many years ago and I asked him about the crime rate where he lived. He told me that they don't have a crime rate there, just new mounds of earth in the woods.

I enjoyed English beer when I lived in England, but our beer is made for our climate and there is nothing like it. I have got so used to it that when I visited the UK in 2004 I couldn't handle English beer and stuck to Stella Artoir. Nice and cold (like the weather) but a bit weak. Not a bad pint though and after six or seven pints it was beginning to taste as good as Aussie beer. One evening I really got stuck into it and saw a picture of a woman and I fancied her. I learned that it was Amy Winehouse so I went on to orange juice for a few days.

If you could handle a "Guy" called Tony Abbot we could provide him. He would look good on the top of a bonfire - trouble is, we are not allowed to have bonfires here, they say it is because of the danger of bushfires, but I suspect the politicians are afraid of being chucked onto them. Aussies do tend to be extremely practical at times! Actually Vags, after what the Great Ouse River Authority did to the Upper Ouse, a few beavers up there might have done the world of good. They would have been working on improving the river all day rather than just the few hours at weekends I could manage. Their dams would have stopped the canoeists too! Talking of the Upper Ouse, I wonder how many people realise that this August 3rd is the 25th anniversary of Dick Walker's death.

Dunno about it being sweet, never noticed that, but I love it on my toast soldiers with boiled egs!

You are exactly right mate. Because of one or two, a number of us were not prepared to voice our thoughts on a number of subjects. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, I have been a journalist far too long for that to be a problem. However, I am not prepared to tolerate personal attacks by people who enjoy the anonymity of a pen name when they probably wouldn't have the guts to say those things to your face. Because of those people I have taken several long breaks from this site because it had ceased to be fun. I am no supporter of censorship, but when you have two or three people spoiling the enjoyment of large numbers of others there is only one solution in my opinion and it is looking as though that has been done.

No argument there AND I like Vegimite too! A guy I used to fish with used to have what he called Marmalite sandwiches which were a mixture of marmalade and Marmite. Never really fancied trying that though!

Elmer Fudd! And I know why!

As far as I am concerned the site is becoming more like it used to be now we have got rid of some of the members who seem to be missing. We should be allowed to express our opinions without being insulted by those who disagree with us. That is how it used to be when we formed AN, people like Rabbit, for example, did nothing for the general atmosphere here.

I have taken damaged discs to the local video library and asked them to buff them while I look for discs to hire. They are generally happy to do that as a favour.

Recently my wife had a problem with her computer in which she was told that she had some infections that needed to be removed by a programme called Security Tool. She was also told that someone was trying to get into her computer to access her credit card number. It was impossible to get rid of the Security Tool message and I soon realised that it was actually a virus its self and one that required you to send money via your credit card. It really is a pain but it is reasonably easy to remove by following instructions here. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-remo...e-security-tool There is a small programme that is needed with it and that is rkill.com It might be worth having that in your computer anyway as it isn't quite so easy to download when you have the virus - if you are unlucky enough to get it. The process takes some time because the programme scans your computer completely. When you are told to delete your Host File, you may need to do a search for it. Once you have done that the link to put in a new host file is there for you. We don't know where she picked up that virus, but we are pretty sure that it was something to do with the Avant browser which we have since removed from her computer.

In these days of general elections it is refreshing to meet someone who maybe telling the truth.

Oh come off it mate, no one ever wore out a pragmatic hypothesis I think you are just pulling my leg!

I think that you ought to read the piece properly before making that comment. He simply told us where he had seen the piece about which he was writing and he also told us that he thought the magazine was quite expensive. An informative posting rather than an advert for a magazine.

Dunno mate and I was never sure as to what a pragmatic hypothesis was either. I asked Dick Walker if he knew what it was and he told me that he had had one some years earlier but he broke the handle on it and threw it away.

WOW! I have a feeling that David Marlborough FZS discussed something along those lines in his Pragmatic Hypothesis in the early 1960s.

Yeah, we have had the same problem on the Oz AN with posters with the same and similar names. Another thing we are getting is posts that have been lifted from other sites. We get a new poster who posts a paragraph that has no bearing on anything that has been said. A bit of research will show it to be a paragraph from an American bass site or the like. Like you Elton, we were bombarded day after day with the things you mention and I believe that I posted a note here regarding it. It has eased for us now but it seems that others are having their turn. On some days I was deleting over 100 posts. I think our banned list is probably as big as our membership list!

A friend of mine, (and Vagabond's) worked in a London tackle shop and they were well used to being asked for six penn'orth of Gentiles. However, they were hard put not to laugh when one young lad asked for sixpenn'orth of genitals.

I used filamentus algae as bait on may occasions when I lived in the UK but I am pleased that Mr Crabtree described it as silkweed, from that name I was able to identify the stuff the instant I saw it. I would not have had a clue as to what to look for if he had called it filamentus algae! As has been said it grows in many places and is quite easy to gather, sometimes just by dragging hook through it. I remember when on a friends yacht - which was ready for a good clean - I awoke to a strange bumping sound on the other side of the hull. I crept up to the deck and looked down into the water to see a shoal of mullet pulling silk weed of the hull. They were certainly having a good breakfast!