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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2012 11:09 am
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CHAMPION.
Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2012 10:16 pm
@eurocelticyankee,
Will be watching Black Caviour this afternoon when she races in the Goodwood Group I Race at Morphettville just a couple of kilometres from here. She will be trying for her 21st consecutive win before heading to Royal Ascot (UK) in June.
She is unbackle for the small punter, presently showing $1.04 on the Tote for a $1.oo outlay!
Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2012 12:57 am
@Dutchy,
What a Champ 21 wins on the trot, he just strolled in with the Goodwood by 2 lengths, quietly ridden by Nolan and never touched, no more than a track gallop.
spendius
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2012 04:45 am
@Dutchy,
Looking forward to seeing your champ filly Dutch.
Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2012 04:57 am
@spendius,
Watch her run on June 23 in the Group I Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot spendi. Presently your bookies havr her at even money, grab that if you can and you won't be disappointed. Smile
spendius
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2012 05:16 am
@Dutchy,
And what if an inch of rain falls on the hallowed turf in the hours preceding the race? Does she go on the soft/heavy in places?
Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2012 05:25 am
@spendius,
Indeed she can handle wet tracks spendi, she has has won several times in soft conditions. Todays track was dead and she cantered in.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 21 May, 2012 07:05 am
Anyone watch Q & A tonight?
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/img/panellist_m2080428.jpg
Host Tony Jones is joined by: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides; author and commentator Kathy Lette; former CIA interrogator Glenn Carle; Russian journalist and Putin biographer Masha Gessen; and The Australian's Foreign Affairs Editor Greg Sheridan.

Fascinating.
Not one politician, for a change!
I'll post a link when it's available, for anyone who might be interested.
msolga
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2012 05:13 am
@msolga,
Quote:
Q &A
Monday 21 May, 2012
Sydney Writers' Festival

Subjects: discussed:

* MARRIAGE RELEVANT? 1:25
* MARRIAGE RELEVANT? 7:18
* ASSANGE 15:24
* IS TORTURE JUSTIFIED? 24:30
* CRAIG THOMSON 35:12
* CRAIG THOMSON 41:46
* VLADIMIR PUTIN 44:40
* ARTS / HUMANITIES 52:58


http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3502530.htm
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Bootlace
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jun, 2012 10:44 pm
Where is everyone ?
dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 02:00 am
@Bootlace,
They're dead, Jim.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 02:09 am
I just read recently that in 1967, you folks lost your PM. That he was walking along the beach, and just disappeared. Holt, wasn't that his name? Really, how can you just lose your PM ? ! ? ! ? Don't you remember where you had him last? That seems unforgiveably careless.
FOUND SOUL
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 03:44 am
@Setanta,
Quote:
There were many rumours surrounding Holt's death. One is that he had committed suicide. Another claims he faked his own death in order to run away with his mistress. Ross Coulthart a Reporter for the Nine Network Australia told of a man who claimed to be a former spook for the Australian Government who claimed he helped Holt return to Australia several times since his disappearance. He travelled incognito from his home in France. It is claimed that Holt swam around to the next bay, hopped in a car driven by a lover, and slipped out of the country. The spook claimed that Holt subsequently died of a heart attack in the south of France sometime during the 1980s.

Other theories had the CIA assassinate Holt because he wanted to withdraw Australian troops from the Vietnamese war. Yet another came in 1983 when British author Anthony Grey published a book claiming that Holt was a Chinese spy and had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.


I was 5 what do I know?

I googled man that's History.... I think that they said he went out into the water, his pictures clearly show he's an avid (was) surfer... I think he got surfed pinched?

How amazing that I've never heard of him? Exactly even though I was 5 surely he should be history? I mean in the history ? I agree...Never heard of him in school....

Shucks...Sharks... Sheez
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 04:29 am
Well you stumblebums just up and lost your PM. It's not like anyone's gonna want to advertise the fact.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 05:53 am
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:

I just read recently that in 1967, you folks lost your PM. That he was walking along the beach, and just disappeared. Holt, wasn't that his name? Really, how can you just lose your PM ? ! ? ! ? Don't you remember where you had him last? That seems unforgiveably careless.


He wasn't walking the beach....he was in swimming.
Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 01:53 pm
@dlowan,
You still lost him . . .
spendius
 
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Reply Sun 10 Jun, 2012 03:10 pm
@Setanta,
Prime Ministers in those days went about like anybody else when relaxing. When Clem Atlee opened a new building once his car arrived out of the traffic with his wife driving. Harold Wilson sat in a deck chair on the beach and queued up for his ice-cream.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 11 Jun, 2012 01:43 am
Well damn, I missed out again this year!
I was hoping to become Dame Olga today, but alas, it was not to be.
Anyone else here hit the jackpot?
Check the map to see. You might get a nice surprise! Smile Wink

Quote:
Map: Queen's Birthday honours around Australia
By Matthew Liddy
Updated June 11, 2012 08:52:32/ABC News
Map: Australia

Who received Queen's Birthday honours near you? Find out using our map.

The map shows all recipients of the honours, mapped by postcode.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-11/map-queens-birthday-honours-by-postcode/4063678
dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 11 Jun, 2012 01:55 am
@msolga,
Nothing for me. AGAIN.
msolga
 
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Reply Mon 11 Jun, 2012 01:57 am
@dlowan,
Not fair, not fair, Deb.
We are both such worthy contenders!
A pox on the judges, or whoever it is who decides such things!
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