Don't forget the "Rawhide bra" - Heads em up and moves em out

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Don't forget the "Rawhide bra" - Heads em up and moves em out

Lol.

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Ok, Looks like I started something. Let's try focus on what is before us. The holiday countdown!

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To some, calling something escape proof is just issuing a challenge...

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Grant
Darwin NT

Brrr I'm freezing... I went outside to check the sky for cloud cover. It's just after 12: 30 am here and cold. The cloud cover is total so there will be no chance of observing the Orionids Meteor shower tonight. When I came back in I clicked a link on Facebook for details about the shower and found a link to the BOM Satellite viewer and saw that the clouds are so thick that I cant even see my part of the country. Bummer I should have done this first and saved myself from getting chilled. Durrr...

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To some, calling something escape proof is just issuing a challenge...

And birdy looks so proud of himself!!
LOL.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

He sure looks one contented chap now his living space has been significantly extended :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Forty years ago today........................
I was just 20yo.
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash recalled 40 years later.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Sweet revenge: Rhino charges, injures suspected poacher in Namibia

A rhino reportedly charged and injured a suspected poacher in Namibia who was illegally tracking the rhino, according to local reports.

Luteni Muharukua was injured on Oct. 14 after he and a group of other suspected poachers illegally entered the Etosha National Park and began tracking rhinos with the intent of killing them and taking their horns, The Namibian reported.

The rhino reportedly surprised the suspected poachers, and Muharukua fell to the ground while running away, police officer Simson Shilongo told the paper.

“His friends took and hid him on a nearby mountain, and he was arrested there the next day by the police,” Shilongo stated.

Muharukua was treated for his wounds at a local hospital, the Associated Press reported.

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TARDIS crew confirmed :-)

Mandip is cute.
No comment on the name.

Some times headlines are really troublesome. Here is one I spotted today on the CBS Evening News website.

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This is rather heartwarming.
Thank you to all of our men and women in the service of this country.
Gene Simmons Military Tribute.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Well, that was different. With halloween approaching, last night I drove across to York to attend a book launch. We gathered, late in the evening, in pitch darkness, deep underground, in the York Cold War Bunker. To hear...

Author Mark Haddon read his new contemporary ghost story, 'The Bunker'. Set ...

... in the York Cold War Bunker.

Boo!

Perhaps wisely, he only read the first few pages, setting the scene, and then gave us all a copy to take away and read in the comfort of our own private bunkers. After that, we moved on to the more traditional elements of a book launch - questions and answers, a glass or two of wine, a chance to get our copy signed and have a few minutes private chat with the author.

And then we were taken on the standard tour of the bunker facilities, available to any member of the public (weekends only during Winter). The bunker was built to house 60 volunteers, working shifts round the clock: they had 120 trained volunteers, but only the first 60 to make it to the front door during the 4-minute warning would be admitted. The facilities were designed to be simple, robust, and self-contained: but if anything vital broke down - power, telecommunications, air conditioning - the police would go and find named, pre-authorised, engineers on the streets of York to come in and fix it. No maintenance team by default. Our guide posed the question "What happens after the 30-day food rations run out?", but didn't answer it.

Much of the cold-war equipment remains in place: the purpose of the bunker was to make and collect observations of nuclear explosions across the north-east of England. We were introduced to the pièce de résistance, AWDREY, still in her place on the balcony. But I particularly liked the 'poo pump', or "High Pressure Sewage Ejector". That seemed quintessentially British: they drop nuclear bombs on us, we fire high-pressure poo back at them.

Most of the attendees at the event were, like me, of an age to have experienced living through the Cold War in real time, the first time round. The York Cold War Bunker was operational from 1961 to 1991, but is now - for the time being - part of England's Heritage. Perhaps we all should be too.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Well, I never expected that our little (15 persons max, unless there's a nuclear war on) seance yesterday would make the national newspapers, but: Haunted Houses for Halloween

Mark mentions (as he did last night) the 1984 BBC drama Threads, set in Sheffield during a nuclear strike. But people of my generation remember another BBC production from 20 years earlier: The War Game. It was deemed 'too horrifying' to be broadcast on TV at the time, though it was shown later: but my school got hold of a copy and showed it in our school theatre. Although I saw several films and plays in that theatre, and helped run the technical gallery for some plays - I remember we put on "Oh, What a Lovely War!", which was a play before it became a famous film - the showing of The War Game is the only time I can remember an audience of 300+ boys aged 13-18 leaving the theatre in silence. Total silence.



The black cat is part of the book design, but Mark drew the mushroom cloud for me freehand while we chatted. Nice touch!

(I did make links so that people could explore the backstory for themselves if they wished)

But people of my generation remember another BBC production from 20 years earlier: The War Game. It was deemed 'too horrifying' to be broadcast on TV at the time, though it was shown later: but my school got hold of a copy and showed it in our school theatre.

I remember The War Game production as well.
It was part of the history lessons when I was in high school.
Really scary!
Weird thing is that I have met Peter Watkins who made that film at a party.
It's a small world. Please don't nuke it!

Oh boy.......
Guess that violated his NDA, eh?
Dumb and dumber: Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter's viral video.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Author Mark Haddon read his new contemporary ghost story, 'The Bunker'. Set ...

... in the York Cold War Bunker.

What an interesting evening! Thank you for sharing your observations with us.

Is it ok to post this here? Super price and there is nothing that ID's the company.