DD_Arthur

Dick Barton Special Agent!? They don't write em' like that anymore. Mind you, they don't talk like that anymore I think you might be interested in this BG; http://www.archive.org/details/otr_dickbartonspecialagent

Satellite radio? Is this what we call DAB (digital audio broadcasting) over here? We're big on radio in my house. To my kids disgust, I'm a bit of a TV Nazi. I see no reason to have more than one TV in the house. Certainly none in bedrooms. Ten years ago here in the UK we had just four or five channels. On a Saturday I used to sit down with the TV guide and have look at what was on, make a note of it and make sure I'd watch it. Nowadays we have 'Freeview' which is digital broadcasting. We've got something like forty channels now. It's total shite. As there is not enough decent telly to go around most of these forty channels just recycle the same old garbage constantly. I just can't be bothered. Most evenings my wife and I find ourselves banished to the kitchen as my now big kids command the telly rights. Neither of us mind. We can read, drink tea, my wife can thrash me at scrabble. I can smoke the occasional cheroot. We have the radio on. We did have a DAB jobby down here which was great if the reception was working but usually hopeless. It was fine upstairs. Last year I bought a Phillips Internet radio. It's fantastic. Works off the signal from our wireless router upstairs. The choice is truly endless. Despite what I said about modern TV I find radio much less obtrusive and a kind of nostalgic adventure. As a kid in the seventies I used to do my homework listening to the John Peel show and the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. That originally started out as a radio series on the BBC. I still prefer to listen to soccer commentary rather than watch it. Somehow just much more exciting. Been getting into Baseball too. English language radio is endless. Every local station worldwide seems to have an internet stream these days. I get a kick out of listening to local radio from Perth in western Australia knowing that my cousins out there will be listening too as they work at printing money-or pool contracting as it's more commonly known. Local radio ads from the Soloman Islands become fascinating. Even the Goon show is streamed by someone. I'll be checking out local radio from Ontario and Missouri later tonight after coops!

O.K., now up to T-34-85 wiv a bloody gert cannon but I'm runnin' outa gold and sleep

Hey, happy belated birthday Cap'n. Hope you had a good one

Happy birthday Funflak, m8. Hope you have a great day!

Nice pics FruitBat. I think I've seen a piccy of that old boy before. Was it on page 3 of the Angling Times? Oh yeah, shouldn't Painless be sitting in that Spitfire?

I've been wasting my life playing this for about three weeks as ArthurSmedley. So lets get this straight. When it comes back we'll be able to create our own rooms/play as a squad? Fantastic I must say WoT is a great way to use a few minutes waiting for a coop to start!

Ooops. Another one I've missed. Happy belated birthday guys. Hope you had a good time.

Happy birthday Jabo! Hope you and your new shiny multi-coreness have a great day.

Nice pics Jabo. 'That one' is now my desktop. My brother-in-law went to RIAT. He loves jets and the Raptor display was like nothing he'd ever seen before.

What a great weekend. Really good to meet all those familiar voices face to face. Thanks to Fruitbat I found the Dogz sitting beneath the shade of a VC10. Phew wot a scorcher! Had a quick look around the American hanger. Wow, I followed the 'path' up and around and the stuff they've got in there is amazing. And then there was the evening! BG gives a demo of professional scotch whisky tasting Roll on next year.

YES, YES, yes, yes, yes! Was talking to Largie during the finale at Duxford and we both agreed we want to do the Balbo one night. Take off, form up and a couple of close formation low passes would be great. Then see if we could actually land in group formation

O.K., Schools out, run the gauntlet of yummy mums. Taken my newish crap car to be fixed. Picked up courtesy car. It's a fuggin' Transit Connect van! "Er, we're a bit short of cars this week. Sorry." Decide not to tell 'em I'm gonna put 400 miles on the clock and crash out in it! Off home for curry, strength three, sh*t, shave , shower. Then early start tomorrow a.m. Should I bring chairs and picnic rug, Gimp mask for Jedi? See you all tomorrow mid-morning. Stand by Jabo, Sid for heavy breathing phone calls to find you all at Duxford. Looking forward to this no end

Nice pics Rattler Some of them actually show me shooting things down without crashing Despite this I think the formation of Ponies would make a great desktop.

Holland just beat Brazil 2-1. That was very cool.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man;

Ah, the international language of men travelling without their wives.

Hmm, it's just that occasionally the busty, half-naked young women are accompanied by muscular, half-naked young men equipped with these and we wouldn't want any sort of international incident would we? Btw, have you checked out Google street view? If you know the zip-code of your flop house you can take a virtual walk from the tube station. Pooka and BG are staying at Captain Blighs gaff, which you can see is just over the road from the Imperial War Museum; My link Weird stuff. This morning I "walked" from the house we lived in when I was a nipper to my primary school. A journey I last took nearly forty years ago.

Hey, JP. What time do you arrive at Heathrow and at what terminal? If it's between 6am and 11pm I'd take the London Underground service. The line to Heathrow is called the Piccadilly line. Take this to Green Park station and change onto the Jubilee Line. It's easy. Waterloo is one stop away. In all it will take about an hour. Have a look at this; My link N.B. Generally considered best practise to stay away from half-naked, busty young women on the 'Tube.'

Hello Bucky. Check out the Tutorials section. Snacko has posted a comrehensive guide to setting up and using the UP mod package.

Yep, just tried now Crash and get the same thing. Wasn't there a sticky up about board maintenance comimg up?

I can't decide whether they deserve to get boarded by the IDF or drafted by the IDF

I've read his fantastic Stalingrad book. Almost made me sympathetic to the krauts. Almost. If you like Anthony Beevor I think you'd like Max Hastings too, JP. Very well researched and written.

It's my desktop for this week. Now my wife really can call me a tit!!