Chopper
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Good morning all.
Looks like a hot humid and stormy week coming up.
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Good morn.
Beautiful summer day it is.
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Morning all.
'bout the same here Donster.,
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Good morning all.
Supposed to get to 32C/90F with humidity at 92% and t-storms on the way.
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Morning all.
Humid humid humid.
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Good morning.
Storm clouds looming.
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Good morn. Beautious day but humidity building up.
My friend Barry is over and gave my pc a good going over and cleaning, although it was pretty good to start with. Still have my IL2/PF stoppage problem sooo ......
we're off to shop for a cheap replacement of my GF4 Ti-4600 and a power supply.
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Good morning.
Sunny day and days ahead.
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HBD USA
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And those aren't Newfie jokes. Supposedly those are real events.
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My favourite.
Newfies are conducting a night trench raid. One Newfie, who knew a little German, sneaks up to a German trench.
Newfie (in German): "How many of you in here".
German: "11".
Newfie (in Newfie-nese): "Here, share these amung ya" and tosses in 2 grenades.
Then there's the Newfie Vickers team, all alone, that stopped a German division strength assault in its tracks.
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Ya same here Donster.
Mornin all.
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Ok, I'm an idiot. I've never updated..... until now.
All is well.
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Ok, then I navigated backwards (back arrow) from here and lo and behold I see the O-Club and Ready Room and AAR. I go into the O-Club with 15 topics and 128 replies and ..... blank.
I event click on "Recentt Posts" and I get everything but the topic lists to enter.
I'm using Firefox.
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Nope. Everything else works. Looked at your AAR Doug, no prob.
The forum however has no content. The menus and all are there, but no forums.
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Actually, it's been blank, no subjects, for me for days.
Maybe I should logout then back in again.
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Is our forum at the new place down??
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Good morning.
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There have been a number of good tv progs in the last couple of days and included the prelude and reason why , where and when this grotesque battle was fought.
The top German general, Falkenhayn, had designed the battle of Verdun purely to kill Frenchmen and hopefully knock them out of the war. He anticipated a kill loss ratio of 5 Frenchmen for every 2 Germans. After 5 months the meatgrinder of Verdun had not produced anything like that ratio, but the French army was on the verge of mutiny. The Somme Offensive had been in the planning stage for a year but slated to start in August of 1916. However, because of the perceived iminent French collapse, the date was moved up to July 1.
The Somme Offensive grinded on until November and achieved little tactically or territorially. Twelve days into the battle the Germans called off their Verdun Offensive and retreated before the French advancig army and with a kill-loss ratio of 1:1, not the 5:2 envisioned by Falkenhayn. Falkenhayn was relieved of duty and replaced by Hindenburg.
In terms of the primary objective, the Somme Offensive was a success. In that light the lives of the Allied soldiers were not given in vain. Verdun was relieved, France fought with renewed vigour and the Germans would not go on such an offensive again until it's desparate and ill fated Spring Offensive of 1918.
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Mornin all.
Storms.
Stormy weather.
Big ones, small ones, flashy ones, noisy ones.
Storms.
F-86 Saber destroyed, pilot killed, July 24, 2006
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