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over a year ago
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Remember 'The time in the slime' countdown clock?
The "Millennium Countdown clock" was installed in the waters of the River Liffey in March '96 as a countdown to the year 2000.
The clock was removed in December 1996 after persistent technical problems   |
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"That was mad. It affected that whole world travel
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That was how the social welfare cottoned on that all the Poles and Lithuanians were signing here then flying home  |
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"New Years Eve 1999 was such a damp squib after all the hype. "
Don't know what your on about,my entire house switched off on the button of midnight,all electrics gone,the car blew up and my fridge cooked all the food, apparently the millennium bug!! |
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"New Years Eve 1999 was such a damp squib after all the hype.
Don't know what your on about,my entire house switched off on the button of midnight,all electrics gone,the car blew up and my fridge cooked all the food, apparently the millennium bug!!"
How terrible for you. The fridge cooked all the food with no electrics ... weird |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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The pirates who abducted, transported and sold into sla#ery in north Africa, the entire village from County Cork, that was denuded of all its citizens, in a single day.
I think the village was Baltimore; occasionally people with red hair, blue eyes and white skin, but who speak Arabic do return to county Cork to enquire about their ancestors!
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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Operation Mincemeat, the highly successfully plan to dump a body in Huelva, that convinced the Germans that the invasion of southern Europe would happen in Greece and not in Sicily.
The body was that of a tramp, renamed Major William Martin, whose new identity (and the ingenoys plan) was devised by Ewen Montagu KC, who made a cameo appearance in the 1956 film, The Man Who Never Was.
A new film based on Ben Mc Intyre's book, Operation Mincemeat is probably not as good as the first film.
Irish actor, Stephen Boyd, was the spy sent to London that Martin was a real person; this part of the story was probably entirely fictitious although the Abwehr did do son checking and became convinced of the body's bona fides.
Probably, the most successful operation of the second World war, that was a crucial turning point. |
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Covid control and how anyone who queried the narrative or even was a tiny bit sceptical about it, was demonised by everyone who thought they knew better/took the self-moralising high ground and labelled those folks as deniers, crackpots, selfish or conspiracy theorists! |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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One of the most weird aspects US Presidential travel up until the 1960s was that they travelled in urban areas, such as the city of Dallas, in opentop limousines that left them wide open to assassination from skyscrapers.
Nowadays, it is common knowledge that presidents travel in colossally armoured vehicles that are better protected than military vehicles, in many instances: eight inch thick doors, etc.
John F Kennedy had annoyed a lot of people including the mob, the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, so travelling around in such a vulnerable vehicle, on a predictable route, with no decoy vehicles, as is often the case today, seems weird. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was having an argument with my ex-wife and she said , "sorry for being such a bitch, of course you're right",
07/04/2018
Do you have an exact time and coordinates too? "
I'm not that anal.....
Butt i could be ,
For the right lady |
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"I was having an argument with my ex-wife and she said , "sorry for being such a bitch, of course you're right",
07/04/2018
Do you have an exact time and coordinates too?
I'm not that anal.....
Butt i could be ,
For the right lady "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Liverpool winning a premier league a few years ago,made the red fans go daft with emotions and made them believe they would win the next 10...ah weird events indeed.
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Ah they are mad ted  |
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"Operation Mincemeat, the highly successfully plan to dump a body in Huelva, that convinced the Germans that the invasion of southern Europe would happen in Greece and not in Sicily.
The body was that of a tramp, renamed Major William Martin, whose new identity (and the ingenoys plan) was devised by Ewen Montagu KC, who made a cameo appearance in the 1956 film, The Man Who Never Was.
A new film based on Ben Mc Intyre's book, Operation Mincemeat is probably not as good as the first film.
Irish actor, Stephen Boyd, was the spy sent to London that Martin was a real person; this part of the story was probably entirely fictitious although the Abwehr did do son checking and became convinced of the body's bona fides.
Probably, the most successful operation of the second World war, that was a crucial turning point. "
The tramp was welsh |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"Just checked it tramps real name
Glyndwr Michael..
Died from taking rat poison"
Some years ago, I specifically bought a DVD for The Man Who Never Was: it is an exceptionally interesting film, and stars: Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Gloria Grahame, William Russell, Robert Brown, Michael Hordern, Ronald Adam, and many fine actors of that era. Regrettably, I cannot recall the name of the actress who portrayed Pam. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"Just checked it tramps real name
Glyndwr Michael..
Died from taking rat poison"
He is buried in Huelva cemetery, close to the beach where he was found.
The headstone was recently modified to include this Welsh citizen's name! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"From the lounge
Ash cloud from Iceland 2010 disrupting the continent
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Being a bit of a history buff, my favourite period in history is the Wars of the Successors. We all know the story of Alexander the Great, and after his death his kingdom was divided up between his generals, but it was SO much more interesting than that. So I find that weird |
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They say you always remember exactly where you were when you hear certain breaking news 
For me it was in my kitchen on the day I heard that Ian and Janette Tough were swingers. Now this might not come as any major shock to some but when that couple made up a famous duo called THE KRANKIES of schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie and his "paternal figure" Ian Krankie, a life re-evaluation ensued followed by a lot of questions asked such as...
Were they both enacting a fantasy as millions of us watched on?
Do they do role play and if so as what?
... and does that uniform still fit cheeky little Jimmy after all these years? 
Well, anyway that day certainly marked the end of my innocence  and life for me would never be the same after that
Believe me you, that was not a fan-dabi-dozi day for many, many people around the world... |
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