07 May 2011 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
A Naval story.
Our local library recently handed us this copy of a radio conversation: This is the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. Radio conversation released by the chief of naval operations, 10-10-95
CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
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07 May 2011 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Kilgraney to corner old shoe market!
The last thing I would want to do is laugh at people trying to speak or write a foreign language - especially as the British are particularly lazy and arrogant in this department. Their version of communicating with someone from another country normally extends to speaking louder, and shaking their heads with incredulity when stupid Johny Foreigner looks bemused.
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07 May 2011 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Horse s**t or what?
1) Do you know any anagrams for 'Kilgraney's well-rotted horse manure' ?
2) do you even know what an anagram is ?
3) do you even care ?
(Anagram = Juggling all the letters around in a phrase to make a completely new one that still vaguely makes sense)
We stumbled on a curious site - www.anagrammy.com - that
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11 May 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Interesting eye test.
1) Count every "F" in the following text
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS..
HOW MANY ARE THERE? (Scroll down the page for answer)
Send this to your friends.
It will drive them crazy!
And keep them occupied
For several minutes..!
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11 May 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
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05 May 2010 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their
days interesting. Well for example, the other day I went into town and
went to a small shop on the High street. I was only in there for about 5
minutes.
When I came out, there was a policeman writing out a parking ticket. I went up
to him and said, "Come on buddy, how about giving a senior citizen a
break?"
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11 May 2009 / Posted in: OFF THE RAILS !
Telegraph poles in literature
Gunter Grass Nobel prize for Literature 1999
The truth:
" it would be fanciful to suggest that Kilgraney's telegraph poles were the inspiration for 'The Tin Drum' or that we were directly contacted by the author"
" it would be wrong to suggest that Kilgraney was singlehandedly responsible for Gunter Grass being awarded the Nobel prize for literature"
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