Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 4bee

Army Ducks or the treading in **** ducks?

Duck, Des, not DUKW. Although as I recall the descriptions are not dissimilar.

Anyway, the woman loves poultry. Well, she appears to like me, so her sanity could be in question.

Originally Posted by Tins

Duck, Des, not DUKW. Although as I recall the descriptions are not dissimilar.

Anyway, the woman loves poultry. Well, she appears to like me, so her sanity could be in question.

I wonder how much she will love them as XMAS approaches? You take care near XMAS ok, & keep your eyes peeled?

"Never buy shoes from a sales-lady wearing ill-fitting clothes..."

- Or 'trial' them in the shop by walking on the CARPET, try a hard, unforgiving surface like tiles.

Ask me how I know...

Something I'd never noticed until I saw this speed selection part of a turntable today.

334578.jpg

33 + 45 = 78.

I wonder if that's how 33rpm and 45 rpm came about noting 78 rpm was first?

My Philips turntable has capacitive touch buttons to select 33 or 45. If you hold them both down (they won't latch) you get 78 on the nose.

Originally Posted by BradC

My Philips turntable has capacitive touch buttons to select 33 or 45. If you hold them both down (they won't latch) you get 78 on the nose.

That one of the old ones with the green backlight on the buttons?

Chuckled a little with the Army stating it is NOT an Army chopper

" The Australian Defence Force says a helicopter painted to look like an army chopper which made an emergency landing in Melbourne's south-east this afternoon is not part of its fleet."

More correctly it is no longer an army chopper

The Neibours might be confused. I know a few of you are hard to see in your ex army Camo landrovers


Helicopter with army markings that made emergency landing on Melbourne oval not part of ADF - ABC News

It seems that one is still in army colours rather than painted to look like it.

Not always the case though - the Auster aeroplane I owned in the 1960s, which was silver both originally and in my ownership, was repainted in army colours by the owner about twenty years ago, and as far as I know still is.