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From: Champ on 16 Jan 2010 15:44 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:04:09 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> > wrote in <0po3l5hcrhapjqr1gv349lc354c05l7b07(a)4ax.com>: > >> Anyway, as all the Tasmanian aboriginals were slaughtered by the white >> settlers, the insult is well off target :-) > Not _all_ of them. Remember how they got where they were? er, I'm not following you. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 16 Jan 2010 16:12 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:44:22 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in <o894l59vgedrsimvlm5mves4mmvqsd4to9(a)4ax.com>: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:21 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" ><Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: >>On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:04:09 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> >> wrote in <0po3l5hcrhapjqr1gv349lc354c05l7b07(a)4ax.com>: >>> Anyway, as all the Tasmanian aboriginals were slaughtered by the white >>> settlers, the insult is well off target :-) >> Not _all_ of them. Remember how they got where they were? > er, I'm not following you. Briefly, there were at least two waves of settlement into Australia before Captain Phillip. The most recent of them wiped out the previous one, leaving historical remnants in, e.g., Kow Swamp in Victoria. Their last remaining colonies had been driven into Tasmania by the time the European settlers arrived. They accomplished the final step of genocide that the current "aborigines" hadn't quite managed. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: Kevin Gleeson on 16 Jan 2010 17:52 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:38:56 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:41:00 GMT, Kevin Gleeson ><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: > >>>>>>>> http://www.leossouth.com/pre_owned_detail.asp?sid=06731684X1K13K2010J4I22I53JPMQ701R0&veh=1415481 >>> >>>>Never ridden a turbo bike but owned lots of turbo cars. Was gunna >>>>turbo my VF1000R in 1985, but got distracted by a race engine from >>>>Malcolm Campbells superbike that went instead (Google his name you >>>>pommy bastards). >>> >>>Some of us don't have to :-) >> >>Good. He's a Tasmanian like me ... > >I had a great time in Tasmania, as I've probably said before. > >Even shagged a Tassie woman... Pfftt. Let me start counting :-)
From: Kevin Gleeson on 16 Jan 2010 17:53 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:50:50 +0000, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:38:56 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >>On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:41:00 GMT, Kevin Gleeson >><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> http://www.leossouth.com/pre_owned_detail.asp?sid=06731684X1K13K2010J4I22I53JPMQ701R0&veh=1415481 >>>> >>>>>Never ridden a turbo bike but owned lots of turbo cars. Was gunna >>>>>turbo my VF1000R in 1985, but got distracted by a race engine from >>>>>Malcolm Campbells superbike that went instead (Google his name you >>>>>pommy bastards). >>>> >>>>Some of us don't have to :-) >>> >>>Good. He's a Tasmanian like me ... >> >>I had a great time in Tasmania, as I've probably said before. >> >>Even shagged a Tassie woman... > >did you get a map? <applause> Especially coming from the other side of the world. Didn't know that phrase had made it that far.
From: Kevin Gleeson on 16 Jan 2010 18:26
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:29:01 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:41:00 GMT, Kevin Gleeson <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> > wrote in <4nc1l5tt7fiiknpja9984jvjss1vjm409r(a)4ax.com>: >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:43:53 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >>>On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:57:12 GMT, Kevin Gleeson >>><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: > >>>>>>>> http://www.leossouth.com/pre_owned_detail.asp?sid=06731684X1K13K2010J4I22I53JPMQ701R0&veh=1415481 > >>>>Never ridden a turbo bike but owned lots of turbo cars. Was gunna >>>>turbo my VF1000R in 1985, but got distracted by a race engine from >>>>Malcolm Campbells superbike that went instead (Google his name you >>>>pommy bastards). > >>>Some of us don't have to :-) > > Indeed... > >> Good. He's a Tasmanian like me and I know him quite well. One of the >> most under-rated riders. He just never got that break. > >> The most amazing bike race I've ever seen was in Queensland in the mid >> 80's (fucked if I can recall what year, it's that long ago that a >> quick Google doesn't bring it up). Wayne Gardner was the gun thing for >> Honda. I can't recall whether he'd just won the world championship or >> whether it was the year before, but he was Honda's bright new star. >> This was before the superbike formula had started so here in Oz the >> top formula was run anything you like. > > I should still have most of that series on VHS -- it was shown on >ABC and Mum recorded it for me. I'd flown in from Vancouver for the >Melbourne round to help my mate Steve Cooper and hang out with Rusty >Howard (who you probably know too). Gave Malcolm a lift to the airport >after the races IIRC. Drove back up to Sydney with Steve, then ended >up home in Byron Bay after the Sydney round, pootling up to Surfers >for the last round. Sort of know Rusty. Have met him. I know Mal a lot better. I was working on the Shell Superbike series for SBS in the late 80s. They'd fly me around the country to do the telecasts. Ahh the good old days... Funny you mention Rusty Howard, it's opened a floodgate of memories of some freaking good local riders we had here in that decade. |