Magere Hein

I think it's for the same reason why there's only one captain on a ship.

She's a bit of a one hit wonder, this side of the pond.

True, you'll soon know. A cousin of mine was an engineer's mate in the merchant navy. He spent a few years at sea, but quit that job because he got seasick at the first bit of roll and it didn't go away. This was in the 60s and he soon found a job at Dodewaard nuclear power plant. That became a bit of an embarrasment in the 80s when his children didn't mention that to their friends. A trawler, eh. Soon on this channel: Deathlist Catch!

Am I the only one who has trouble pronouncing this bloke's name? ETA: The Armenian (one who had nothing to do with America) who towers above all (in my eyes) is Tigran Petrosian (1929 - 1984), the 9th World Chess Champion (1963 - 1969).

A politician being hypocritical. Film @11.

My experience with helicopters is singular, be it an interesting one. I was flown in one of those large jobs to a heavy lift ship out in the North Sea. It was rather windy, so the ride wasn't comfy. Apart from several cases of other passengers being noisily sick, the fligth was uneventful. I can't imagine an auto-rotation landing being a good one, in the sense of one you walk away from.

Interesting philosophical question, that. The phenotype who was Henrietta Lacks is dead and likely to remain so in the forseeable future. Her genotype is very much alive. As long as we don't know how to create a phenotype from a HeLa culture, the difference with dead is slim.

I've been told by a glider pilot (who flies 747s for KLM in his spare time) that the difference is that you ordinarily sit in a plane, rather than stand. Apparently the vertigo muscles don't work well then. Some friends of mine are glider pilots. In that business deadstick landings are quite popular. When those friends attempt overland flights they need assistance for when they land 'out', i.e. not on an airfield. I've been a member of the team that retrieves glider and pilot several times. I soon learned that choosing a suitable landing spot is not an exact science. Apart from visible and invisible obstacles (fences, ditches, trees, livestock), what looks smooth from the air isn't always. Precision landings are part of pilot training, but nevertheless accidents with damage to glider or pilot are common, sometimes fatal. One friend mistook a field of maize for grass. He wasn't hurt, but his glider was. It also wasn't white anymore. Another one got in trouble when he landed in a field that sloped down. His flight ended in a wire fence.

I think this new thread is covered by MPFC's Hymn Writers thread started back in 2005. As far as I know it's not been archived. Dunno, you could be right, but I guess there's a difference. I don't expect much traffic in this topic, though, once the newness wears off.

One I know from memory is general of the Luftwaffe Kurt Student, who got shot in the head by friendly fire, shortly after the Battle of Rotterdam in May 1940. He was fixed up by Dutch surgeon dr. van Staveren, and a year later he commanded the German forces in the Battle of Crete.

That's the question with rasslers.

She's a witch! Burn her!

Old topics live just as well where they are as they would in some archive. I have better things to do with my time than such futility.

A few more candidates of Slavic origin: Alexander Lukashenko (1954) Ratko Mladić (1942) Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1937) Stjepan Mesić (1934) Vlastimil Hort (1944) Milan Kundera (1929) Grzegorz Lato (1950) Lech Wałęsa (1943) Anatoly Karpov (1951) Viktor Korchnoi (1931) Vladimir Putin (1952) Boris Spassky (1937) Valentina Tereshkova (1937) Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950) Michal Kováč (1930) Sergey Bubka (1963) I admit some are too young to cark it soon and Hort and Ljubojević may be dodgy obit-wise.

Aren't "done it" and "guilty" different things? There may be justifications or excuses why his lawyer thinks he's not guilty. I don't know more about US law than what I picked up from courtroom drama (which I rarely watch), so I may be totally wrong.

This year for the first time I didn't pick the world's oldest for my DDP team. All her predecessors performed as expected, but mrs Okawa's failure to die last year prompted me to let her go, there were more valuable possibilities. I don't think she'll do a Jeanne Calment (who held the title for 9 years and 205 days), but she may well be around a few more years.

The new editor is useless. It tries to think for the user and does it all wrong without giving a clue what it's doing. I'm typing this in the raw test editor. (the little light switch top left).

Unfortunately The Prisoner was never broadcast on Dutch TV. I know it has legendary status. I'll see if utube have it.

Hmmphr, grmbl.

Yes, you can. I can formally answer that your request is denied for historical reasons. This thread started life as a Doctor Who thread, but at some time it was merged with another 'UK scifi other than Doctor Who' topic.

Ouch. I'm not a hardcore Trekkie, but I'm fond of Star Trek. The movies are on average shite, I'll give you that. The Piccard series I really like. The spin-offs I ignored, they're awful. The first runs have all the faults you name and some. A few times a month I watch an episode of what Trekkies reverently call The Original Series. Most episodes I recognise from earlier TV runs. Well into the 70s Star Trek was the only scifi I saw on the Dutch box. Blake's 7 was imported from the BBC, but broadcast at a time at which I was supposed to be in bed. The Doctor was imported much later. So by Hobson's choice I've seen almost the lot of them and I still like the old episodes. Yes, it's cheaply made tripe, but cheaply made tripe that touched the imagination of a child growing up with Gemini and Apollo. Your parting shot I agree with. I have a few friends who buy into that pseudo-philosophical crap. One, I'm embarrassed to say, dresses up in a Klingon suit to visit conventions.

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I suddenly realise a cousin of mine is called Fennie (short for Fennechiena). Few English names are funny to Dutch ears. The name of web site flickr is a rude Dutch word for a male homosexual. Some English words invariably cause giggles in early English classes, like 'cut', 'pig' and 'raid'. I wasn't aware that Britain was so full of Cocks and Dicks.

Probably not. Presumably he has only one.

I'd fear that evil god if I'd believe in it. Ah yes, the Job syndrome. Stupid, but mostly harmless.