miked10270

ROFLMFAO! I wish I could write satire like that. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

You missed out CH, a locally produced semi-persistent incapacitant which makes certain parts of your anatomy resemble the map at the start of Bonanza. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

that while I'm not sure about Jesus... Brian 's Not The Messiah... He's A Very Naughty Boy! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I notice the "Virgin" Mary doesn't appear in Israel, or Aberystwyth, or Edinburgh, or Essex, or California, or Tennesee. Wonder why!..? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Nope..! You're thinking of Isaac Newton, the Sub-Prime Mortgage Broker. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Apparently Global Warming IS interfering with nature!.. Preventing a new Ice-Age! Go Figure. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

It's how easy the "tools" make it. By your reckoning a penknife is as lethal as an atomic bomb. Both can kill people, but the Nuke makes it easier to do it wholesale. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

According to the calendar in use at the time and place of his birth, 25th December.... Yet the song then refers to the "Tenth-Day" which would be 4th January, his accepted birth-date. Anyway, all Newton did was produce some flawed theories which had to be corrected by A German, of all people! H5 is at The Worshipful Clock-Makers Guild & not really on view to the public [shame] Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Are you citing his birthdate as 4th January or 25th December? Personally I feel that citing 25th December is stretching the metaphor even further than that of John Harrison's being a carpenter and spending the first 30 years of his life in obscutity! Mike. Edited to add: John Harrison, the greatest man who ever lived! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Were you gone? Now you mention it things have been quiet... Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I'm not. I believe in giving ANYONE a FAIR trial. Not "Victors Justice"! Actions taken by a nation that ultimately resulted in the deaths of 70-80M total. It was established that, "acting on orders" doesn't cut it. Do you really have any doubt about the guilt of the people that were tried and convicted there? Yes. In some cases I do. The rules of evidence and cross examination at Nurmberg were so grossly tilted it would be difficult to get a "Not-Proven" unless you had an allied officer counterpart who would (embarrassingly) testify that he did the same thing as a normal part of his duties! Only then would the war crime you'd been charged with cease to be a war crime. I've already cited several examples of Nurmbergs breathtaking bias. Interestingly, Nurmberg established that "Obeying-Orders" was not a defence. Yet, it is accepted in Civilian-Criminal Law that "Acting-Under-severe-Duress" IS a defence! The unanswered question was: "Does an order given under a brutal regime, or even under military discipline, amount to sufficient duress?" My point is that once you depart from due process and fairness of any judicial hearing, there is no grey area. A trial is either civilian-criminal fair, or it's a perversion. There is no such theing as reasonably fair or sufficiently fair. I think that the Gitmo Detainees, AND Dubya & Co (should it ever occur) should receive a fair civilian-criminal standard trial and not some Kangaroo CourtWar-Crimes Tribunal. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I'm not. I believe in giving ANYONE a FAIR trial. Not "Victors Justice"! Even by the standards of the day, Nurmberg was often a mockery of a trial to give some legitimacy to a vengeful mob. Evidence could be given by written affadavit WITHOUT cross examination! This allowed the Soviets to SUCCESSFULLY prosecute Germans for the Katyn Massacre despite it being carried out by the Soviets themselves. U-Buat captains were prosecuted (& faced hanging) for; "Failing to pick up survivors from ships they'd torpedoed". They were only saved when British and American Submariners testified that this was standard submarine doctrine across all navies. (Without digging into some excessively dusty books in my attic)... Otto Skorzeny faced hanging for the war crime of "Sometimes wearing a disguise". He was only saved when David Stirling disobeyed orders and testified to doing the same thing. One U-Boat captain (Anyone remember the name, etc..?) was prosecuted for "Murdering Children" when he "Deliberately Torpedoed the ship carrying them". The total "evidence" (please try to keep a straight face on this one) was an affadavit by a former merchant mariner, who had left the merchant marine before this happened, wasn't there, never served on the ship in question, but, because he used to be a sailor, just "knew" that it was deliberate murder of children. Such expert testimony was admitted by the hearing without opportunity for cross examination. So... NO. If Y'All really want to hang somebody, then give them a FAIR trial first, then decide if they should be hung! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yes, every day that the Gitmo Situation wasn't progressed has supported the argument that there is no solution. Perhaps the only answer is to extend the Gitmo inmates the same rights to due process as if they were in the US, and deport / permanently exclude those not found guilty of whatever charges are brought. Maybe the Cubans would take them? at least until they could go on to their own countries. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Milan is the place to be destitute this Christmas! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

In fairness, The Nurmberg hearings were held immediately after that war. No-one was held PENDING trial for 8 years with no sign of any evidence being obtained or any case being prepared. Thus far, the only folk who HAVE sought prosecution are self-confessed Wannabe-Martyrs. Thinking about it, one wonders how the Nurmberg hearings really would have gone if they'd been heard in 1954? For one thing, would the Soviet evidence on the Nazi massacre of poles at Katyn be believed? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I preferred "Duck-Ya".

"Mount Dubya" actually depicts four American Taxpayers... The shoes are incidental, but suddenly very relevant. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

This doesn'y bode well for when Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson take Dubya to Hartlepool! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

This Thread Needs To Be Concluded! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Cerrtainly NO "sheepdog"!! Speaking as someone who's kept, rescued & bred Border Collies for years, I can assure you that the first qualities of a "Sheepdog" are intelligence, obedience, teamwork and usefulness (Collie is old Northumbrian for useful). Qualities which this woman manifestly does not possess. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Ain't that the sad truth? Yes, but realistically, does anyone feel that THEIR country should take up such a challenge? As far as the countries bordering Zimbabwe are concerned, it is far cheaper & safer in the short to medium term to try & mitigate the problems which spill over their borders than to go in and solve the root cause. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The international community seem unanimous that "Something MUST be done, and someone else MUST do it! Mugabe has so completely mismanaged Rhodesia in the interests of nepotism that the basic services are breaking down (a task only matched bu Idi Amin in Uganda and the combined efforts of The Nazis & Red Army in Berlin). The problem now is that anyone foolish enough to go in to effect the Regime-Change would also be morally obliged to clean up the mess that Mugabe has created. Not only would they be left withthe cost of rebuilding an entire country from the ground up, but it would be in the face of emergent conflicting politics. For example, how would they administer the return of "nationalised" farms to their original effective ownership & management? AS Kenya learned in Uganda, and The First World is learning in Iraq & Afghanistan, the reconstruction of a country is an expensive poisoned chalice. Hence their attempts to contain the problems of Zimbabwe while hoping that Mugabe will be ousted by internal uprising. It's cheaper and safer that way. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I guess that the "Apollo-13 Argument" applies here. IF the constitution were written to cover all such eventualities, then the Founding Fathers would still be writing the constitution! They surely assumed that there'd still be some common sense around after they'd gone and that their successors would, perhaps, write some Amendments to their original document to cover situations they hadn't considered? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Really? I guess I must have "Grandfather-Rights" from when this was the Talk-Back Forum. Speaking of the old Talk-Back forum, it was split into Bonfire & SC over GWB posts. Once he's gone (& one day forgotten) I wonder if they'll merge again? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Oooh - a temper tantrum. Oh, I don't know; If someone accused me of being a typical college professor, I might take that as a compliment. Same here... But John would probably prefer someone like Amazon or Christel to say the first bit. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.