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v8-powered wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:51 am
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It's not an attempt at a parking sensor then?
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This was prompted by the 'your bike and something thread ' when the challenge was something of naval warfare.
I knew that this was somewhere in the forest, it took quite a while to find it and was absolutely not in a place where I could get the Honda.
I found it on the MTB


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On this day in 1987 a group of hired labourers carried 700 old hospital beds onto Saunton Sands in Devon, England for a photo shoot by Robert Dowling & Storm Thorgerson.
Carefully arranged they were to form the cover to the iconic Pink Floyd album 'A momentary lapse of reason'
Despite meticulous planning the weather intervened, with rain forcing the shoot to be abandoned, the exercise was repeated a few weeks later.
By coincidence 1987 was also the year that Photoshop was first developed (although it wasn't marketed until 1988) fast forward a few years and thanks to Photoshop, AI, and other graphic handling/manipulation programmes we are unlikely to ever see the likes of this epically staged photo shoot again.

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Didnt know cancer had even been diagnosed back then!


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Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:12 am Didnt know cancer had even been diagnosed back then!


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Death by planet?! :D

Wolf is an interesting name (apparently 'cos the tumour would eat away at you).
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Count Steer wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:48 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:12 am Didnt know cancer had even been diagnosed back then!


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Death by planet?! :D

Wolf is an interesting name (apparently 'cos the tumour would eat away at you).
Interesting Big Issue article here on such things...

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/ ... -live-now/
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:40 pm Image
That is joy to see......
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Dahlia Road.... Greenwich Council needs to learn how to spell....

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Au contraire, my friend.

It's named in honour of St. Dahila, Patron Saint of Typo's and Mis-spellings.
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gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:58 am Au contraire, my friend.

It's nemad in honour of St. Dahila, Parton Siant fo Typo's and Mis-spellings.
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Or St. Pawl, patron saint of auto correction
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I Googled dahila and it's a real thing :)
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The next generation of champion?

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Found on my lawn when I got home from work...
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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:22 pm Found on my lawn when I got home from work...
I think that's a warning from the French mafia.