Friar

Would it have different if it had been written by a "limey"

Balloon priest wins Darwin Award for stupidity Friday, January 2, 2009 A daredevil Catholic priest who was killed after floating out to sea suspended by 1,000 helium-filled party balloons has been honoured for his idiocy. Reverend Adelir Antonio di Carli had been trying to break a record for the longest time in-flight with party balloons when he disappeared. Three months later his body was discovered off the south-eastern coast of Brazil. But now he has won the 2008 Darwin Awards which commemorates people who die in a stupid fashion. Rev di Carli planned to use the money raised in his attempt to break the 19-hour record to fund a "spiritual" rest-stop for truckers in Paranagua, home to Brazil's largest grain port.

Welcome m8. I am the voice of reason around here. Should you feel at any time that the pressures of life are getting a bit too much, pop round to my place, my door is always open (unless I have a bottle of Priory Special Reserve Port open) to listen in confidence, well depending on how much cash you give me, as a donation of course, the story content and whether I will need to blert it out over Team Speak if you get on my six. I look forward to flying with you. Cheers Friar.

Welcome to the pound. The only stupid questions are the ones you dont ask! We have all been there (some are still there, even worse some will never find "there" let alone get to it!) Our matriarch, Blairgowrie, will be along soon no doubt to formally welcome you and to dish the dirt on how to get up in the skys with us. Could I point out at this early stage that there is an un written rule (devised by me) about shooting your chaplain down, and the fact that I would request you dont. Other than that, if you need someone to talk in confidence to, that is what i am here for. I represent the Priory of St Oleg, a nondemononational group. For more info search the forum or even "google" me. (The last time I did I managed to return only 1, yes ONE hit !!) Oh, when I say in confidence, it does depend on the amount on cash you give me, the amount of young nubile women in the story and how often you get on my six. Cheers Friar

Guys, I am currently helping fritzl get up and running with TS Display. I sent him the .exe and .dll files which he put into a folder. He can run it OK and get it working on his desktop correctly but when he starts the game up it does not appear. We have checked his screen resolution and it is the same as the game is set to. Does any one have any other ideas as to what it might be. He is running vista home premium. UPDATE: Spoke to Rico and he said that he has not been able to get ts display to work with vista. We are investigating ts overlay

forgot to add.... I also have a "Y" shaped splitter that I plug my headset and speakers into. When flying or just want the headset I turn the external speakers off, that saves a lot of "faffing about" as well.

This is from Amazon Uk but I am sure you could find something similar from the US/Canada. http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-ft-Speaker-Extension-Cable/dp/B00066HPUG Hope that helps Cheers Friar

Glad you enjoyed it. It was an award winner. One of our former members, an excellent guy called Bbloke has a web site dedicated to il2 films. I will try and find you the link. Friar

I actually shed a tear at the end. its the only movie I have actually wanted to copy to cd permantly.

Have you seen the Il2 film "Faith, Hope and Charity" its a classic..

i get an avi called "big bang" ?

Hi, It was'nt the exchange rate, it was the shape of the coins.

thank you snacko that should hopefully

Guys, I need your help. As some of you may know, in September my wife and I went to New York to celebrate our 20th Wedding Aniversary. At that time the Pound to Dollar exchange rate was something like $1.92 to the Pound. So we took advantage and bought some of the kids Christmas presents. One of the things we bought were some Nintendo DS games. We bought "Brain Age" and "Brain Age 2". One of the exercises it has is money and change calculations. I expected to have dollars but not coins. My problem is illustrated by the below image. Could someone tell me what the value of the coins illustraited would be please? Many thanks Friar

Stunning, absolutly stunning.... I would love to say, "thank you kind sir" but you are only stating facts I guess !!!

Becareful Crash, if I remember correctly, Roger (B16enk) telling me once that actual programs on your desktop will take a piece of memory. If you start getting performance issues, watch for that. Cheers. Friar

Following on from my post in the Did you know thread, I was double checking my facts and came across thi story, perhaps Sid, Painless or Fireman would like to comment; The news story was dated October 2007 Yesterday the Burj Dubai Tower, in Dubai UAE, attempted to celebrate its grand opening with the world's longest fireman's pole slide. The 1,885 ft tower, now the world's tallest structure, features a 1,883 ft fireman's pole that runs directly down the center of the building. The Burj pole obliterated the previously held record by more than 1800 ft. The opening ceremony called for a UAE-trained stuntman to negotiate the 1883 feet non-stop to the building's lobby where he would be met with fireworks, candy and cake. At the last minute the stuntman was replaced with a tower construction worker for unknown reasons. The slide, expected to take 40 minutes, would make it into the book of records. After commencing, the inexperienced construction worker quickly reached a speed of 75 mph creating intense frictional heat. Workers on every floor sensed trouble and began dousing the man with water as he screeched by. The heat was too overpowering and soon set the man afire. By the 50th floor he was engulfed in flames. By the 30th floor the man had fallen victim to the heat and flames. By the 20th floor he looked like a comet. And by the time he reached the lobby he was a charred, unrecognizable carcass startling the party goers. "We didn't know the heat would reach that level, the smell was horrific," said a sullen Jimmy Mustafa, a tower representative. "We think he passed away somewhere between the 30th and 25th floors and the poor guy just kept hanging on." Stuntman Tommy Ali noted,"I had a feeling that would happen."

Darth Vader: Luke, I know what you are getting for Christmas Luke: How can you know? Darth Vader: I know what you are getting for Christmas (insert breathing effect here) Luke: That is not possible Darth Vader Darth Vader: I know what you are getting Luke: How, tell me how you know what I am getting for Christmas? Darth Vader: Luke, I have felt your presents

It only works for lights though

I bags the first mod with a gearing upgrade, but pretty cool none the less.

I have only recently turned the "Gore" feature on and for the first time on Thursday was able to see the effect. Unfortunatly, it was on me me, but pretty good. Next time you get PK'd jump to external view and see what a mess your cockpit is!

Hey, that quote works for all the UK Dogz as well! Excellent post JP, thanks for sharing. Welcome to the pound Magpie.

Ahh, Mr Trout, glad to have you swim up our little creek (sorry, that will be the last fish pun I use). My role within the Dogz is to offer someone to talk to when all else fails. I am here with the dogz as representative of the Priory Of St Oleg. A nondenominational organization who's main aim is recuse fallen women, use their skills, retrain them and earn a living off them encourage them to earn their way in life. Should you feel the need to talk to me, being a man of the cloth (well sort of) you can be assured that discretion is a word that can be bought quite cheeply these days (I have had to lower my "fees" due to the Credit Crunch and the fall in the UK Pound / US Dollar exchange rates). I look forward to flying with you soon, and please do not follow the example currently being set by other members of the dogz by taking great delight in shooting me down. Cheers Friar

If its just for emails and she would not mind dial up, google "free dial-up" for the UK. there are lots of companies. She does not need a contract so if its a temporary posting she wont be committed (as she would be be a phone or cable company). All you have to watch is the price per minute for connection. They have peak and off peek rates. Peek rates tend to be around 5 pence (100 to the pound) a minute, off peek about 3p. All you have to do is put the dial up number into the modem. The websites will give setup information. The other option is to "piggyback" a neighbours wireless connection and offer to give a contribution towards the fee.