Biker, Happy Joan of Arc Day!
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Did I say sub-genius or sub-human!?
I think he falls more into the transpecies category.
I think he falls more into the transpecies category.
Maybe we should call him peperami as he's a bit of an animal...
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Actually maybe mini-peperami would be more apt.
But he dose have a tender side.
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or dose he?
Bob
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or dose he?
Bob
Biker, Happy Animal Farm Day!
On this day in 1946 - George Orwell published "Animal Farm".
Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War.The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin "une conte satirique contre Stalin", and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted it.
Orwell wrote the book from November 1943February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain among the people and intelligentsia, a fact that Orwell hated. It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers, including one of Orwell's own, Victor Gollancz. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.
Birthdays
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1819 - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria
1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1938 - Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
Deaths
1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, US aviator, dies at 72
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
2011 - George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011 - John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949)
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On this day in 1946 - George Orwell published "Animal Farm".
Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War.The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin "une conte satirique contre Stalin", and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted it.
Orwell wrote the book from November 1943February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain among the people and intelligentsia, a fact that Orwell hated. It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers, including one of Orwell's own, Victor Gollancz. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.
Birthdays
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1819 - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria
1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1938 - Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
Deaths
1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, US aviator, dies at 72
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
2011 - George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011 - John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949)
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1995 August 26 - .
Mir News 269: Euromir'95 - . Nation: Russia. Program: Mir. Flight: Mir EO-19. The launch from Baykonur of Soyuz-TM22 is still on schedule for 3.09.95 at 0900 UTC. Soyuz-TM22 will carry the relief crew (the 20th Main expedition) to the Mir-station together with the ESA astronaut, the German, Thomas Reiter. The Russian crew consists of the Mir's captain Yuriy Gidzenko, who will make his first spaceflight, and the board-engineer Sergey Avdeyev, who already made 1 spaceflight. This crew and the stand-in crew flew to Baykonur on 23.08.95 to accomplish their final training.
Mir: During the past weeks the complex passed during the night hours. Meanwhile the passes shifted to the afternoon en evening hours. The clear skies during the evenings made good visual observations possible. The cosmonauts executed a lot of experiments and repairs. They installed new gyrodynes in Module-D and resolved airseal problems. Probably one or more gyrodyne cases showed leaks. The cosmonauts solved this problem using a lute named 'germetik'. They did this by putting this lute around some leaking electric sockets.
Scarce information: During the past weeks it was difficult for me to maintain sufficient grip on the Mir-operations. This due to family circumstances, the night passes of the complex and the capricious behaviour of the geostationary satellite Altair.
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Mir News 269: Euromir'95 - . Nation: Russia. Program: Mir. Flight: Mir EO-19. The launch from Baykonur of Soyuz-TM22 is still on schedule for 3.09.95 at 0900 UTC. Soyuz-TM22 will carry the relief crew (the 20th Main expedition) to the Mir-station together with the ESA astronaut, the German, Thomas Reiter. The Russian crew consists of the Mir's captain Yuriy Gidzenko, who will make his first spaceflight, and the board-engineer Sergey Avdeyev, who already made 1 spaceflight. This crew and the stand-in crew flew to Baykonur on 23.08.95 to accomplish their final training.
Mir: During the past weeks the complex passed during the night hours. Meanwhile the passes shifted to the afternoon en evening hours. The clear skies during the evenings made good visual observations possible. The cosmonauts executed a lot of experiments and repairs. They installed new gyrodynes in Module-D and resolved airseal problems. Probably one or more gyrodyne cases showed leaks. The cosmonauts solved this problem using a lute named 'germetik'. They did this by putting this lute around some leaking electric sockets.
Scarce information: During the past weeks it was difficult for me to maintain sufficient grip on the Mir-operations. This due to family circumstances, the night passes of the complex and the capricious behaviour of the geostationary satellite Altair.
[video=youtube;RJouIuL_TDI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJouIuL_TDI[/video]
£140K plus a further £100K from local businesses. Not sure about the egg though.
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Haha it's Huon who remembers an Inn, Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the spreading
Of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
And the wine that tasted of tar?
And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers
(Under the vine of the dark verandah)?
Do you remember an Inn?
How you doing? Keeping out of trouble? Still off playing in the sun? It's been quiet here though Mr Kelly, Bob and I are still having fun.
I do drop in occasionally
Belloc's OK but I prefer Ibsen's slant. Besides, 'tis Italian not Spanish.
I'm ok. It is cooling down now thank god. I even managed to gather enough energy to get the tipi up. Now to make that damned snath!
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I do drop in occasionally
Belloc's OK but I prefer Ibsen's slant. Besides, 'tis Italian not Spanish.
I'm ok. It is cooling down now thank god. I even managed to gather enough energy to get the tipi up. Now to make that damned snath!
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Opps sorry got mixed up there. Just as well I'm not a responsible adult.
Police: - So what country was the suspect heading too?
Me: - Spain, NO! Turkey, NO! Belgium... Oh I don't know.
I actually just like Tarantella and I think that's what clouded my memory of where you were hiding from Dad. (So saying he's gone AWOL and hasn't been heard of since the 18th. He's being furtive and it worries me.)
Worried here too. Who knows where he'll turn up and with what mad scheme in mind?
Remember the last time? I still have the scars and the stammer
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Worried here too. Who knows where he'll turn up and with what mad scheme in mind?
Remember the last time? I still have the scars and the stammer
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Was that the time with the jelly fish and the Kerplunk set or the time with the anchovies and the strimmer. (Both were in his Seafood torture phase I get mixed up.)
