Well yes...grasping at straws is always welcome when that is all that is on offer :O:

Sure.
Get all 'serious' and stuff.
A very 'Un-GT' responce.
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Your Capt. Cook appears to have been doing just that.:O:

COOK?...wasn't he the one who discovered the colony originally? :hmmm:

Janszoon was a phoney :know:

This one
http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/16/...ED-620x349.jpg

http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTU...200/174223.jpg

Not this one
http://stjcomo4t2.wikispaces.com/fil...ptain_cook.jpg
WTF happened to our cricket team?

I am scheduled to defend my dissertation on 24 Dec. I *might* have a good christmas present :D... or not. :wah:

:rotfl2: OK you can take photo's of pancakes with them if you want. But I get to eat the pancakes.

I am not expecting any gifts, as I always tell people not to spend money on gifts for me.
I think it's far more important to spend the day, or just dinner, in the company of your loved ones, having a good time. Gifts are a poor substitute to love.

Incidentally, this is the same reason I usually keep very silent about my birthday. People go for gifts, which I think is a waste of money, when I value their company much more.

Commerce replaced human warmth with materialistic manifestations and consumerism.
I'm glad to see all you sub simmers have not lost perspective of what's important.

I bought myself a Sigma 35mm f1.4. It's a nice piece of glass.

Good luck with the shorty forty :up:

Those are at Big FIVE under $200:up:

Lucky you! I'm on call 24/7 and the more so on the holidays; was on standby for Thanksgiving- but no calls; I don't figure to make between Xmas and new years uninterrupted though. One tech even griped 'he's gotta go out on a call if there's an officer available...and I'm always available!" Naturally there's no holiday contract pay! They do give me my Fridays though for sailing, so I've no complaints and it rounds out the Social Security stipend...and pays for tires! :yeah:

For tyres even :hmmm:

I didn't ask for much of anything this year, so out of the 3-4 things I asked for I'm expecting at least two and whatever I don't get I'll probably get it for my birthday. My list keeps getting shorter each year mainly because there's nothing that I really want, there are some things I need but I'm not going to ask for a bookcase for Christmas.

I probably shouldn't mention this because of the extreme jealousy it could cause, but i'm getting a 1:18 Ju-87 for Christmas:sunny:.

Cool! Way back when I worked at a hobby distributors I took a peek at the 1/24 scale version. Does yours have a million parts just for the engine?