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Post by petea on Jul 17, 2020 22:46:36 GMT
Was this after you installed the new regenerator?  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 19, 2020 10:05:45 GMT
Looking again at the first, I don't know how the workman at 1.50 wasn't killed. It reminded me of a mate at school whose brother used to work on pylons. He said one time he got zapped working on one and the bolt of electricity punched a hole through him. Got rushed into hospital and the nurses kept getting a shock off him. He survived the ordeal ok.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 19, 2020 10:12:52 GMT
I can't imagine being a pylon worker. Not many people have a job where any mistake is rewarded by death.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 19, 2020 19:51:30 GMT
Do like a bit of unexplained:
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Post by Slinger on Jul 19, 2020 20:45:46 GMT
Charlie Drake was at one time the highest paid person on British television. He died completely broke having blown most of it on whisky, women and the gee-gees. The remainder, he is said to have wasted. Now THAT'S Rock & Roll!!! Charlie released this odd single in 1975, featuring an unexpected array of musicians including Phil Collins, Robert Fripp, Keith Tippett, Sandy Denny and Peter Gabriel, who produced and co-wrote the song! A contemporary promo sheet also lists Brian Eno as a player, and I have it on good authority that Anthony Phillips is in there somewhere too. An unusual aspect of the career of all involved. Phil Collins explained the recording on his website: " It did indeed feature Robert Fripp, Percy Jones, Keith Tippett, me and Peter G. A friend of Pete's, Martin Hall wrote the song, or possibly co-wrote it with Peter, called You Never Know. Apparently Charlie Drake, who was a huge comedy star of the 50s and 60s, wanted to make a record. How he ended up with this line-up I have no idea! It seems the most obscure set of people to make a comedy record. On the day Charlie, who was quite small, turned up with a brand new denim outfit for his rock debut... it was quite touching to see him at it. Percy Jones and I were already in Brand X by then. The whole session was one of life's interesting snapshots!" The single sank without a trace, and has never been reissued, except for an Australian Fairport Convention fan club cassette in the late 1980s. The demo, with Collins and Gabriel, is slightly less cringeworthy So, for all you completists out there who brag about having heard everything every member of Genesis ever recorded, now you really have.  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 19, 2020 21:43:52 GMT
I knew he was well-paid but didn't know he died broke. Used to love watching him on TV. Think he suffered a bad accident with one of his stunts using glass at one time.
Never heard that one, Paul. Do remember these two. Got this first one as it was my Mother's:
I think George Martin would probably have produced them, being on the Parlaphone label.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 20, 2020 21:05:08 GMT
A down-to-earth bloke's view on UFOs
And you really think it's just so much tosh?
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Post by Slinger on Jul 20, 2020 21:55:52 GMT
Very interesting that. I'm quite happy to believe in the existence of things for which we have no rational explanation though.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 20, 2020 22:14:27 GMT
It was interesting hearing George Knapp's side of things.
Bob Lazar's account in the 80s really captured the public's imagination at the time.
If there's no credibility to any of it - why is there the follow-up that people experience with their history being erazed and the like?
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 5:56:01 GMT
Back in the 50s, when sightings increased, which coincided with the proliferation of atomic weapons, the US Government set-up a study group to gauge the public's reaction to being told that UFO activity was real. And their findings were that on no account should there be any kind of disclosure of UFO activity as it would result in widespread panic, loss of confidence in the Government being in control and collapse in religious belief.
That was in the 50s. The world's changed since then. 45% of Americans now believe in the existence of UFO phenomena, and want the truth to come out.
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Post by Tim on Jul 21, 2020 7:38:58 GMT
45% of Americans now believe in the existence of UFO phenomena, and want the truth to come out. And the other 55% believe in God . . . actually I think that number is higher God bless America |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 7:54:29 GMT
Well, that's according to an IPOS survey of January of this year. Whether you believe or not, the interesting thing are the surrounding events that follow from claimed instances. One example. If it is to be believed, President Eisenhower had 3 meetings with an alien race and a declaration treaty was signed. The US got technology, and the aliens got to take some of us away, examine us, and return us, unharmed, apparently. If, there was no validity to the story, why would he tell his daughter, and why would she presumably tell her daughter? www.medianet.com.au/releases/147760/?release_filters%5B%5D=photoI can only presume he regarded her as the most important thing in his life, and as such, would want her to know. |
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Post by Tim on Jul 21, 2020 8:28:21 GMT
Like Slinger, I'm certainly open to thinking we're not the only intelligent beings in the known Universe, I personally feel it's illogical to assume otherwise. Have we been visited? I don't know as I've never witnessed it, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. As for what some crackpot Americans believe, well that's a whole other subject |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 9:04:28 GMT
Well, it's easy enough just to write stuff off. And obviously there's a lot of idiot crap out there. But it doesn't mean to say it all is.
Going back to Bob Lazar. He claimed to work on recovered alien craft and the element 115 was used in the propulsive system. At that time (80s) no one knew of it. It doesn't occur here on the earth and hadn't been synthesized. Years later, it's synthesized.
How could he know about something that, at the time, didn't exist?
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Post by Slinger on Jul 21, 2020 13:50:07 GMT
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 15:26:56 GMT
I read that recently.
Crazy.
Another dimension explored:
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 16:07:00 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 21, 2020 16:13:29 GMT
This is good.
Good looking ladies doing Fleetwood Mac and well
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 17:16:35 GMT
Pity that one doesn't sound like Peter Green.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 21, 2020 18:07:40 GMT
Sounds good to me
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