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I never really got into Only Fools and Horses. Very much more into Allo Alllo, as is the whole family. One of my favourite parts of the whole series is when Rennees brother Rennee is listening to his brothers wife read out the will. There was a Renee one and Renee two. Renee one was shot on the orders of a General, but his friends the Colonel and the Captain put wooden bullets in the firing squads rifles. Renee two had arrived from Nancy and the gay Lieutenant who fancied his brother asked if that was where he and Renee were brought up. To which Renee two answers 'yes we were both......., Nancy boys'. When his wife is reading the will Yvette notices that there is something written on the back of the will and it reads, 'PS to Yvette who has served so devotedly under me, I leave the small collapsible sofa in the parlor'. His wife Edith says 'that sofa is not collapsible' Yvette says 'it is unless you put a book under it'. Edith continues 'PPS to Maria I leave the small billiard table which both gave us so many moment of pleasure' Edith says 'I never saw you playing in there?' Maria reply's 'always Renee would make me shut the door and put a chair under the door knob. Edith roars at Renee 'what were you doing that you did not want to be disturbed?' Renee says' Why ask me, I am dead,....remember? Others such the Colonel saying, Yvette vill be room six in vun hour with the vet celery and the FLYING!!!!!!! HELMET!!!! Renee says 'what about the feather duster?' the Colonel says 'TWO' Renee says 'and the egg whisk' The Colonel 'no egg whisk Renee THE ELECTRIC MIXER MIT TWO SPEED!!!!!!!!! I could go on and on but I won't.

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Like others have saidOnly Fools and Horses is a classic. I hate to think how many times I have watched them but will still laugh... even though I know the joke thats coming

Allo Allo In my opinion very good at first but did kind of die on it feet towards the end. 1 series too many I think.

I'm Currently working my way through the Red Dwarf boxed set, again this was another that was excellent but tried to carry on too long.... not unlike the POlice Academy series of movies lol

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Although this is a garden railway forum, here is a video of the car that I bought in November 2010. In English money it would cost brand new 26,000 pounds. the bloke says in the beginning that he needs to be more appropriately attired. My boss at work said the same thing to me and that I shouldn't drive around in track suit pants and 'T' shirt. I said it's better than driving in just my 'birthday suit'9PwinGSXB0w 195kw in Anglo Saxon is 261HP.

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Some parts of that video aren't quite correct. Ordinary 'Drive' mode is yes the 'learning' mode but is known as 'Auto Adaptive Mode'. It will hold automatically a gear when going uphill to give you engine braking when going down the other side. Gear hold in corner, which holds the gear your in whilst driving through a corner for better response when exiting the corner. Winter mode, if the rear wheels spin when driving away on snow or ice with traction control on, the transmission will automatically shift to a higher gear in an attempt to provide more traction to the rear driving wheels. Part of the learning phase is if the transmission identifies an enthusiastic driver it will up-shift at 5000rpm and 5500 rpm in Performance mode or it may delay any up-shift all the way to the red line in any gear. However that sort of driving will see the fuel gauge rapidly descend towards empty. Although the car is economical for it's size, driven hard 'she' will REALLY drink fuel. The car also has a Fail Safe cooling system. If the cooling system malfunctions and the engine sensors it's over heating it will automatically start to shut down cylinders in an attempt to cool itself. If that fails to cool the engine an audible warning chime will sound and in 15 seconds the engine will shut down completely. There is also a mirror dip feature which tilts the passenger side mirror to give a better visual indication of how far you are from a gutter. It only works in reverse mode and returns to normal if Park, Drive or Neutral are selected. Fuel economy figures are for a new car which is yet to be run in. Once run in they are significantly lower. The performance mode is also recommended if towing a caravan for it gives cooler transmission temperatures. In 'Performance Mode' you only have 5 gears not 6. My fuel economy around town is 8.5L/100km(33.23mpg) and on the motorway and country roads 7.7L/100km(36.69mpg). Not too bad for a car that weighs just under 2 tons. Recommended tyre pressures are 30 psi and I run 38psi all round. Unlike large Australian Luxury Fords in the past which had very soft suspension settings, my G6E has what Ford Australia calls 'Sports Luxury Suspension' which gives a softer and more controlled ride but is nowhere near the 'land yachting' of old.

Also in the event of an accident the police can plug into the cars computer to find out how fast the car was REALLY going.

Roy.

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I'll certainly try, and will try even harder not to mutilate myself. A friend over here that I haven't seen for a while asked about my finger and I said that I picked a fight with my garden shredder. It struck the first blow and I conceded defeat immediately. :lol:

Roy.

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cleanerg6e said:

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!. Well I had a good chrissy and I got a kit for one of my presents. No not railway related but a 1.24th scale kit of a Spitfire by Airfix.

Gotta love the RR merlin engine :twisted:

Took my stepson to an airshow last summer and that was his favourite. The pilot came over the crowd from behind, could hear him before you could see what it was. He flew over at about 100feet and made the ground shake :D

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The Spitfire and Lancaster are my favourites. Just to think that the bomber crews were the most highly trained of the lot. We have a Lancaster here in the War Memorial museum in Canberra 'G' for George. It's only static and has been for years. Pity. One chap a Canadian said that the first thing you did on returning from a mission was to have an enormously satisfying bowel movement a sort of as he put it arrrrhhhhhh!!!! we made it. Unlike modern passenger planes there was no WC on board. Over 250,000 lost their lives on both sides and all of them just 18 - 25 year olds, just boys really.

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cleanerg6e said:

One chap a Canadian said that the first thing you did on returning from a mission was to have an enormously satisfying bowel movement a sort of as he put it arrrrhhhhhh!!!! we made it. Unlike modern passenger planes there was no WC on board.

My Grandfather also mentioned this when we were kids

Was known affectiately as "bombing the secondary objective"

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cleanerg6e said:

...the first thing you did on returning from a mission was to have an enormously satisfying bowel movement a sort of as he put it arrrrhhhhhh!!!! we made it...

Having found us via Google, I wonder how long it would be before the unsuspecting visitor realised they had actually stumbled upon a garden railway forum.... :)

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Oh sh*t sorry about that Mick. The Canadian bloke was taking part in a documentary on Barnes Wallis. So it was mainly about the bouncing bomb. The leader on that mission and many others was wing commander Guy Gibson and he didn't get a good rap from his fellow crewmen. The narrator of the doc was Geoffrey Palmer and it was on the History Channel of satellite TV when I used to have it. I got PI**ed off with satellite TV as the fees went up every month and it was mandatory to have their essentials package which consisted of rubbish like The Brady Bunch, I Dream of Genie etc. I just wanted to subscribe to the movie channels and the documentary channels, but that wasn't permitted. So I gave it away and they distributed my mailing details to all and sundry especially Readers Digest who sent me all sorts of gifts that I didn't ask for, and then had the nerve to demand payment for them. They're still waiting.

Also over here we have two satellite TV companies, Foxtel and Austar. Foxtel is supposed to be for the city areas and Austar for the country areas. Both provide exactly the same programs with Austar being significantly cheaper. But you don't get a choice. Where you live dictates on who your carrier will be and the border between the two is often just two houses. Your on Foxtel paying high rates and your next door neighbour is on Austar paying significantly cheaper rates.

For those in the UK it's like living in Doncaster and being told that it's illegal to drive anything but a Rover and in Selby being told it's illegal to drive anything but a Vauxhall.

Democracy is a very elastic word.

Roy.

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That's right Roy - at least the fact that bot stands for robot is - not the fact that bot stands for bottom!

Bot actually refers to a Web Robot which perfoms tasks such as spidering the forum web pages for indexing purposes etc. among other things. The named bots you see at the bottom of the page are actually deemed registered members of the forum even though they never contribute anything. That's perhaps one reason why we sometimes seem to have an awful lot of people on the forum at one particular time - they're all little bots doing their spidering duties!

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mick said:

Having found us via Google, I wonder how long it would be before the unsuspecting visitor realised they had actually stumbled upon a garden railway forum.... :)

Well you could say that this site does contain some pornographic material, photos and videos of garden railways..............in the flesh. :lol:

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