Happy Birthday, LoidiBoid!

Happy Bday and many more. Gota keep the chats coming.

Goll-ee! Thank you girls (my new Texas fan-club?)

Being a day ahead of you here in Sydney, Australia, your birthday wishes were smack on time!

Have a good one PinkFloidiboid !!

Better late then never, happy day-after-your-birthday, LoidiBoidiDoidy.

Happy (late) Birthday!!!
PinkFloidiBoid...That's cute!

Not annoid you tiod with LoidiBoid - in fact I'm boid (not paranoid), 'cause I too enjoid PinkFloidiBoid!!

Thanx team!

...er, that's "toid" (not tiod of course!)

Happy Birthday LoidiBoid!

Egad, another convict....
You should move to a better place, like Melbourne...

Happy Bidet, sir...

Jafo - I'm afraid I can't lay claim to being a member of the Oz Elite (ie Convict Stock) - I'm just a lowly ex-pat Pom (Brit) who's lived down-under since 1974!

...but I'm working on it!!!

Ah a whingeing pom....not to worry...I'm Tasmanian, but I've had the 'Op'...
Actually, a King Islander...and due to a cock-up when the States were set up from the colony of NSW, it was never formally passed over to Tassie, so technically I'm a NSW Colonial...[as close to a convict as you can get...AND I have 2 tattoos...and according to a survey, the average crim has 3...so I'm 2/3rds a criminal. [My wife has 7....so she's just baaaaaaad]....

Hey! What's with the whinging pom thing?! We don't whinge!
We keep a stiff upper lip and carry on regardless.
LoidiBoid, Whereabouts in England did you live?

Well I'm not a whinging Pom either... um, OK, maybe I'm occasionally guilty of some "Repetitive Critical Observation"

BoXXi - we're going back a bit here, but before I came to Oz in '74 (Crickey, Tempus don't half Fugit!!) I lived in Knightsbridge, London - and parents still live just North of Hereford.

Early life spent at seriously Dickensian Boarding School in Cheltenham, followed by Short Service Commission in British Army (Royal Fusiliers).

How 'bout you?

/me hopes this "Memory-Lane" topic ain't too dull for our Colonial cousins.

/me braces for "Outraged" tirade of abuse from entire rest of world!

Jafo, what are the tattoos of?

/me lives just outside Leeds in Yorkshire, on the side of the Aire valley with a nice view of the moors.

BoXXi - Yorkshire is a favourite of mine - my family has a little place called Nostell Priory, just outside Wakefield (actually it's a ruddy museum, but we can't get rid of it!) On many returns to Blighty I often shoot on the Moors during the "season".

Ever been to the "Land of Oz"? (It's just a day-trip away - well, 23 hours to be precise! I've done the return trip about fifteen times and, to be honest, it still completely knackers me!!) Roll on Hyperspace-Sub-Orbital travel is all I can say!

LoidiBoid hopes this "Memory-Lane" topic ain't too dull for our Colonial cousins.

Not that I'm about to speak for the entire "New World," but I for one am pretty amused. Not so much with the topic, but the language! I always marvel at all the variations English has launched.

Oh, and happy belated birthday, LoidiBoid!

LoidiBoid: I have never been to Oz, though I would dearly love to. I don't know if I could stand the trip though, I "Hate" flying. Ten hours to Florida is about the most I can take, and I have done that trip many times. I have family in Oz and they are always telling me to come over, but if I did I wouldn't want to come back to England. I would gladly emigrate, but I believe it's quite difficult these days. Also, I *like* having 12,000 miles between me and Jafo, it's kind of reassuring

Repetitive Critical Observation- Pommies.....the worst kind...
[And they can't play cricket]...

Bryan..come on over...you'll have a place to stay...

Java...
On my left shoulder is the 'jafo' man [a character I drew re my Grand Prix involvement...he's visible on my WB screenshots] and on the right is Marvin the Martian...

Glen - Variations on the English Language... variation?- as a Brit I don't speak with a variation of anything, by definition! Thanks old chap for your kind wishes on the Anniversary of my Natal Genesis - greatly appreciated. (See, that language is pretty normal... isn't it?)

Jafo - again, Me?... whinge? I can't stand that generalisation afforded to all Poms...who do I see to complain about that...it was never this way back in the Old Empire... the entire world is obviously mistaken... I repeat... etc, etc! (Only joshin') I'm a hopeless devotee to Grand Prix events, by the way! (I used to be with the Brands Hatch Club, BRSCC) How are you involved? [PS You're quite right about the cricket, I have to say!]

BoXXi - Having said how much I too abhor flying, I'm leaving tomorrow for a nine hour flight to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands (South Pacific)for some long overdue R&R! Back in...Oh, I don't know, 10 or so days!

If you like motor racing events, you'll be in good company with Jafo and me! We are both fanatics. I especially like Motorcycle racing, Superbike and F1, although, if it has an engine and some wheels, I'll watch it!
And who cares about Cricket? It has to be the dullest thing I have ever seen. I would rather attach my genitals to a high powered electrical output than watch Cricket. Yuk!

/me would just like to make it clear that I never HAVE attached any part of my body to an electrical ouput......well, there was that one time.....*cough*. NEXT!!

Oh, at boarding school we used to YEARN for the electro-genital sessions, just after "prep" on Wednesday evenings... it took our minds off the public floggings on Tuesdays & Thursdays! (Yes folks, the well adjusted individual you see before you is yet another product of the splendid English private education so envied by the rest of the World!)

Now, where's me flying helmet and celery sticks?

[Bit of a Python/Allo,Allo mix there!]

GP500, F1, Indy/Champ/Cart, Superbikes - I love the lot! Spend hours on each one's PC simulator too.
/me makes authentic racing engine noises...wipes screen clean with sleeve...

Mister Loid...
I'm an F1 Observer [hence 'JAFO']...'communications' trackside observer....the guy who reports Schumi for being a naughty boy, and fronts the Stewards, etc..
Next week is my 23rd Australian Grand Prix in a row...but I also do the Super Bikes, and the 500 GP....the Supers are at P.I. at the end of March...they're always good to watch...
But next week I'll be away for about 5 days....Wed to Sun inclusive...and trying to avoid the odd wheel or two.
Hopefully, Webber won't try to launch a Minardi into space as he did with the odd Merc or two at LeMans...

Yeh, that sure was scarey..even more so for Mark I suspect! I shall never forget doing a brief session at Le Mans in the early seventies, testing a Prototype owned by Lord Hesketh. A young James Hunt was also there that day! (He went on to do rather better than I!!) One day I'll stop telling all my friends how unbelievable F1 is live - and finally go to an AGP myself! Monza, Silverstone, Brands...all great, but my personal favourite so far is Spa. I'm sure I'll enjoy Albert Park just as much from what I hear!

Grand Prix, huh? Never got much into road courses or oval tracks (though I do watch NASCAR occasionally for the firey crashes). The sport in our house is: Drag Racing. My hubby has a Camaro, and is building a '79 Capri (Chevy big block for power) for my Dad. We have a one ton duelly and an enclosed car trailer in our pole barn (along with my husbands work area and a couple other cars and snowmobiles...and about 5 engines, a few rear ends and I don't know how many trannies...) I've won a few rounds myself racing.