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Carlos & Siran

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  1. I thought it would be nice if each of us listed our Grandparents and Great Grandparents who have fought for our country. Carlos My Great Grandfather John Francis Callagher who fought in WW1 in Gallipoli and trained NZ solders in NZ for WW2. My Grandfather Bernard Francis Long who fought in WW2 in South East Asia. My Grandpop Arthur Winston Smith who fought in WW2 in the Pacific. Siran My Grandfather Ernest Coxshall who fought in WW2. My Father Russell Paul Ward who was the in the fire services for the Air Force in the South Pacific, Borneo, and in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. Let us remember their bravery and valor on this day of the ANZACs And the band played Waltzing Matilda. By Eric Bogle. When I was a young man I carried my pack And I lived the free life of a rover From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun And they sent me away to the war And the band played Waltzing Matilda As we sailed away from the quay And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers We sailed off to Gallipoli How well I remember that terrible day How the blood stained the sand and the water And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell Nearly blew us right back to Australia But the band played Waltzing Matilda As we stopped to bury our slain We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs Then we started all over again Now those that were left, well we tried to survive In a mad world of blood, death and fire And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive But around me the corpses piled higher Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit And when I woke up in my hospital bed And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead Never knew there were worse things than dying For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda All around the green bush far and near For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs No more waltzing Matilda for me So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed And they shipped us back home to Australia The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay I looked at the place where my legs used to be And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me To grieve and to mourn and to pity And the band played Waltzing Matilda As they carried us down the gangway But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared Then turned all their faces away And now every April I sit on my porch And I watch the parade pass before me And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march Reliving old dreams of past glory And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?" And I ask myself the same question And the band plays Waltzing Matilda And the old men answer to the call But year after year their numbers get fewer Some day no one will march there at all Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
  2. Actually I tied for last for a change(49 on a nine hole), got one on the green off the tee once and only sculled 3 times....................not that I condone binge drinking :oops: it's the comp back to the nine hole that's the killer, winner nominates the club, no tee, every loser sculls a bottle and it's a half bottle on top of that for every short shot(less than 5 meters)
  3. so he asks if the other chair is electric? You'll have to excuse me if I'm being dense....it was golf night :oops:, glug glug glug
  4. I don't think it matters but the warden said if he chooses the RIGHT chair he will be set free, so he chooses the right hand chair?
  5. He asks if the other warden is telling the truth
  6. What goes up, but at THE SAME TIME goes down? Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you!!!
  7. He stood on a block of ice and waited as the ice melted. You'd have to be some sort of phyco to put yourself through that.
  8. Umbrella Could you explain the maths one for me??
  9. We have a Ar380 and a Ar850, both were purchased on trade me, the 850 only cost us $150, the only problem was at some stage the tank had over flowed and the Cabinet top was swelled beyond recognition, which cost us half again what we paid for the tank to have replaced. As for the all in ones breaking, when we first joined this site we saw a very similar thread about one cracking and we vowed we'd never get one but somewhere along the line we forgot about that. So far so good, we're quite happy with them as they're stylish, though we're getting the ich (pun intended) to get a biiiiig tank in which case we'll have it made.
  10. I remembered it Nick :bounce: :bounce: A Key What row of numbers comes next? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 I have to confess that maths is not my thing and I don't really understand how this works but I do have the answer :oops: :roll:
  11. I'm no expert but I'd say it was impossible for a live bearer to mate with a egg layer, I suspect she was preggers when you got her, some one with more experience may prove me wrong though.
  12. With no wings I fly with no eyes I see with no arms I climb More frightening than any foe I am cunning, ruthless and tall, in the end I rule all. What am I?
  13. He put off resealing that 500ltr tank to long and it nailed both him and the missus?
  14. I was looking at that the other day in appreciation, it's hard enough to get a cow to step up onto a trailer like that, let alone an elephant!!! and as for the chrome dome just attach a solar panel for a sex machine....I'm sure your missus would be very appreciative
  15. lol, I'm sure the man who needs a bra would know, he may pretend he doesn't but he'd know
  16. An openended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
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