Modd's back, Fast Eddie's back and Rich is still as f**kwitted as ever. AWIMB's looking up!

[Classic Jorge]

Also, briefly on planes, that Russian bomber that flew over Cornwall is quite a pretty machine. "Bear Bomber" :hehe:

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-1920/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/19/1424364941499/71182f5a-6280-4657-8d8f-dbc3774dcdd9-2060x1236.jpeg

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Oh yes, friday morning obscure wildlife reference.

[Norn Iron]

Sir C is ready to be deployed.

Yes, that's a warning.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

But at least we know the dog would be called *racist term removed*

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I would normally point out that of course the Unicorn's pointy thing is a horn whereas the northern hemisphere based whale's pointy thing is of course a tooth.

However I expect you as a parent of an young child is aware of this.

Indeed I have learned more about wildlife and also dinosaurs in the past 7 years than I learned in the preceding 40.

[Supermac1976]

FFS yer ancient mariner must have shagged some seriously ugly tarts on shore leave.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

a Tu-95?

Really? How's that going to work?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Harsh on the ancient mariners.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That's what Curly told me.

[Classic Jorge]

We'll bounce the f**ker right down Novy Arbat and into the Kremlin

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

structure, was designed by Barnes Wallis, who subsequently designed the 'bouncing bomb' of 617 Squadron fame?

I'm impressed, j.

[Classic Jorge]

They even glued it to a horse in some instances.

The Narwhal horn was also thought to neutralise any poison it touched so rich people made cups from it.

Mentals

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But wildlife would be one of the few things in life that I would not defer to his better knowledge.

I once watched a fascinating documentary on the narwhal as they made their passage through the frozen north, it was a race against time as of course the route was narrowing all the time and you know they need to pop up for air the odd time.

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You on the f**king gear already?

[Luis Anaconda]

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f256/MrGrover/Mariner.jpg

Actually in this picture he looks disturbingly like the ex-girlfriend of a friend of mine

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

http://www.eventim.co.uk/tickets.html?affiliate=SGK&fun= evdetail&doc=evdetailb&key=1181560$4625599 (http://www.eventim.co.uk/tickets.html?affiliate=SGK&fun=evdetail&doc=evdetailb&key=1181560$4625599)

Got their dates wrong 2014 indeed :-)

[Classic Jorge]

[eastgermanautos]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

amongst our modern high speed airliners as to go without saying, but a radical solution, when Wal;lis was working on it, to the problems of compressibility and flutter at high Mach numbers :nod:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

In other news, just how bloody wonderful is the Tupolev logo?!

http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/archive/media/tupolevLogo.gif

[eastgermanautos]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I've flown Sukhois, Yakovlevs and Antonovs, but never a Tupolev. I suspect that like other Russian aircraft it is vastly over-engineered and ridiculously heavy, but strong. Strong! STRONG LIKE MOTHER RUSSIA! DAWAI UHRAE STALINO!

[Snin]

quaking :-)

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Be nice.

[Norn Iron]

Do we need a bigger plane?

[Classic Jorge]

"Many medieval Europeans believed narwhal tusks to be true unicorn horns, and would pay Vikings and other northern traders many times a tusk's weight in gold to own one. It was believed that a cup made from a narwhal's tusk would destroy any poison that had been placed in it. In artwork, unicorn horns often display the same spiral patterning found on narwhal tusks.

Queen Elizabeth paid 10,000 in the 16th century for a carved narwhal tusk set with jewels. During that time, with the same amount of money, she could have purchased a castle. She used the ornate narwhal tusk as a sceptre."

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]