I remember when ... (with a little help from Baron Münchhausen)

[Vagabond]

i WOULD HAVE BEEN happy spending Christmas with the Dutch Army; they were bored and we were a distraction from their everyday routine; plus it was cosy, and there a couple of nice local girls doing bits and pieces for them who looked after me; ie got me over "shock"

changed my post, didn't realise it was a Munchhausen spoof
mea culpa
V

[elisedance]

whie observing a melanogaster emerging from its coccoon I observed that it took a left turn and not a right one as is usual.  15 years of experimentation supported by 5.7256 million $ I found out that the reason it took the left turn was because someone had left the heating lamp on.  These observations were published in the prestigious journal 'post-partum behaviour of advanced fruit-eating althropods' and its significance was recognized some 25 years later to gain me a prize at the fruit-fly convention in Albuquerque AZ 1983. 

The publicity ensured my laboratory's survival for a further 22 years.l

[Bordertangoman]

i WOULD HAVE BEEN happy spending Christmas with the Dutch Army; they were bored and we were a distraction from their everyday routine; plus it was cosy, and there a couple of nice local girls doing bits and pieces for them who looked after me; ie got me over "shock"

UNPROFOR? what year? remember the Dutch battalion that got you out?

tell me why you want to know and I'll try to dig out the info but i have alousy memory for dates, never mind battallions.

[elisedance]

I have a book with it in - yes, it was the Dutch Oven Batallion the famous DOB's.  Famous for their slow-cooked lamb shanks above all.

[ZPomeroy]

I remember when everyone in the world decided it would be fun to communicate using a sequence of winks

Zac

[Bordertangoman]

my daughter was explaining to me that if I stroked my eyelashes they would grow long.......

[elisedance]

my daughter was explaining to me that if I stroked my eyelashes they would grow long.......

wow, then you could get a job as a chimney sweep
Well, as his brush anyway

[Bordertangoman]

all this snow reminds me of a film called Quintet made by Robert Altman

oh and sine we cant embed youtube I think I going to start a Box of Delights thread which is just to post links that you think other people would find interestin/inspiring/

shame it cant be compulsory.. because I get the feeling most of my links are ignored......

[elisedance]

  I think I go to every one BTM - so you have a fan club of one at least