Mandrake's unspoken message to the Homeowner's Association:
Hey! That looks sorta like my neighbor who built his $2000 mailbox on my property and who I unsuccessfully tried to trap into speaking German. Take away his glasses, then give him another 6 inches in height, a cadaveric haunch and let him go shirtless to show off his man boobs and he would be a spitting image! The problem with topiary as political statement is, despite its cultured elegance, it is too easy for some luddite to come in under the cover of darness and cut the thing off 2 inches above the ground.
In most states they have laws that say after you have something on someone else's property for x years (varies by state) then the property becomes theirs... [8|]
In most states they have laws that say after you have something on someone else's property for x years (varies by state) then the property becomes theirs... [8|]
Nah...the dang thing was already built, although he knew exactly what he was doing. I got him to repair the landscaping they crushed. It's not worth the fight. I don't want to have to post an armored cavalry Bn on the property line [:)]
Blamey's leadership is generating some pushback in Northern Oz
*************Social Room, First Unitarian Church, Derby, Australia, July 1, 1942********
Conspirator 1: Right. I'd like to call to order the inaugural meeting of the People's Front of Derby. Welcome and thank you for coming. I'd especially like to thank Pastor Smyth of First Unitarian for the use of the room. <nods in direction of pastor Smyth>
<a general "Harrumph" is heard>
Conspirator 2: <raises hand> "Umm...ummmm...ummm"
Conspirator 1: Now, I'd like to start by discussing our reason for.....
Conspirator 2: <becomes more urgent> "Ummm...ahem...UMMM"
Conspirator 1: ...down the hall turn left, first door on the right. Now, as I was saying...
Conspirator 2: <more urgent still> UMMM..UMMM..
Conspirator 1: ..Oh for CHRIST'S SAKE APPLEBY, WHAT IS IT?
Conspirator 2: Uh, sorry Reg. I thought we were the Derby People's Front?
Conspirator 1: Phhht. Bloody Hell! For the last time, we have no affiliation with those Goddamned splitters. We are the People's Front of Derby!
<generally> HERE, HERE!
Conspirator 1: Right, now if there are no more silly sod questions let's get down to our motivation. Who can say why we are here?
Conspirator 3: <raises hand> Oh! I know. To get rid of Blamey and the Northern Territory Force!
<generally, with enthusiasm>.HERE, HERE!
Conspirator 1: Precisely! Blamey gave and invasion imminent warning two weeks ago and where are we now? Then the silly sod orders an evacuation of Derby by train when there is no train! What has he ever done for us?
<generally> NOTHING! NOTHING!
Conspirator 2: <timidly> Well, there are those nice new reinforced concrete pillboxes down by the harbour?
Conspirator 1: Very well, I will grant you that, but aside from the concrete pillboxes, what then?
Conspirator 3: Well, there is the nice new fighter strip with a squadron of Spitfires east of town. That is certainly a step up from the Wirraway.
Conspirator 4: Yeah! And the new 90 mm AAA guns. Those are certainly nice.
Conspirator 5: That's true. And the new armoured regiment. They weren't here before.
Conspirator 6: What about the new search radar? They can reach out 40 miles.
Conspirator 1: OK, OK, OK. Other than the pillboxes, the spitfires, the new fighter strip, the AAA guns, the new armoured regiment and the search radar, what has Blamey ever done for us?!
That is almsot exactly the same. It is actually a chocolate brown border with a red center. This is a hard one..perhaps too hard as I just learned the patch would more likely have been worn in Greece by a memeber of the Australian Armed Forces and not likely by anyone named either Brian or Bwian.
That is almsot exactly the same. It is actually a chocolate brown border with a red center. This is a hard one..perhaps too hard as I just learned the patch would more likely have been worn in Greece by a memeber of the Australian Armed Forces and not likely by anyone named either Brian or Bwian.
Arrgghh - couldn't find anything with a brown border so far... i was hoping it was just "discoloured"... [:'(] ... maybe later today after work i will resume the search...
That is almsot exactly the same. It is actually a chocolate brown border with a red center. This is a hard one..perhaps too hard as I just learned the patch would more likely have been worn in Greece by a memeber of the Australian Armed Forces and not likely by anyone named either Brian or Bwian.
Arrgghh - couldn't find anything with a brown border so far... i was hoping it was just "discoloured"... [:'(] ... maybe later today after work i will resume the search...
Well, apparently Brown is associated with Medical Services... still can't find that particular patch, so i'll guess: Australian Army Nursing Service.
i can't find a patch or description for the early war for them... but i did for WW1.
if you asked to be more specific, i'd say the Hospital Section of 2nd Division (W.A.G.)
EDIT - i'm guessing a relative of yours was in this particular unit... maybe your mother? grandmother? aunt?
Arrgghh - couldn't find anything with a brown border so far... i was hoping it was just "discoloured"... [:'(] ... maybe later today after work i will resume the search...
Well, apparently Brown is associated with Medical Services... still can't find that particular patch, so i'll guess: Australian Army Nursing Service.
i can't find a patch or description for the early war for them... but i did for WW1.
if you asked to be more specific, i'd say the Hospital Section of 2nd Division (W.A.G.)
EDIT - i'm guessing a relative of yours was in this particular unit... maybe your mother? grandmother? aunt?
Congratulations! Please print out the coupon below and present to the barkeep (the real short guy) to redeem your prize.
The patch was worn by Australian Army Nursing Corps personnel assigned to British Field Hospitals (No's 42, 50, 52 and 60 General Hospitals, and briefly No. 66 General Hospital) in the Salonika Campaign in WWI. [:)]
I didn't really intend for it to be that obscure. I just thought it would be funny to have Bwian with an Australian Army Nursing Corps patch attending to Number 1 during an episode of intestinal distress.
Arrgghh - couldn't find anything with a brown border so far... i was hoping it was just "discoloured"... [:'(] ... maybe later today after work i will resume the search...
Well, apparently Brown is associated with Medical Services... still can't find that particular patch, so i'll guess: Australian Army Nursing Service.
i can't find a patch or description for the early war for them... but i did for WW1.
if you asked to be more specific, i'd say the Hospital Section of 2nd Division (W.A.G.)
EDIT - i'm guessing a relative of yours was in this particular unit... maybe your mother? grandmother? aunt?
Congratulations! Please print out the coupon below and present to the barkeep (the real short guy) to redeem your prize.
The patch was worn by Australian Army Nursing Corps personnel assigned to British Field Hospitals (No's 42, 50, 52 and 60 General Hospitals, and briefly No. 66 General Hospital) in the Salonika Campaign in WWI. [:)]
I didn't really intend for it to be that obscure. I just thought it would be funny to have Bwian with an Australian Army Nursing Corps patch attending to Number 1 during an episode of intestinal distress.
*********Aboard USS Minneapolis, 12,000 yds off the Australian 1st Corps landing beach Amber, near Port Moresby, 09:20, July 3, 1942**********
Admiral Friedell surveys the smoke and chaos that is the landing effort. Minneapolis has already expended almost all her HE ammunition and is now readied for an expected air attack. Several battalions of Australian 6th and 7th Div are ashore in good order, but the carnage among the escort vessels is painful to watch. Evidently, this will be a long day.
Adm. Friedell: Instruct Honolulu to assist in recovery of survivors of Worden
The patch was worn by Australian Army Nursing Corps personnel assigned to British Field Hospitals (No's 42, 50, 52 and 60 General Hospitals, and briefly No. 66 General Hospital) in the Salonika Campaign in WWI. [:)]
Nice research, Cap M.
The pic below is from the 80's TV series 'ANZACS' (review). Slightly different shape as it is 1st Aust. General Hospital, (1916 - 1918) but other wise the same.
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Cheers,
Reg.
(One day I will learn to spell - or check before posting....)
Uh oh, Firefox has a spell checker!! What excuse can I use now!!!
Arrgghh - couldn't find anything with a brown border so far... i was hoping it was just "discoloured"... [:'(] ... maybe later today after work i will resume the search...
Well, apparently Brown is associated with Medical Services... still can't find that particular patch, so i'll guess: Australian Army Nursing Service.
i can't find a patch or description for the early war for them... but i did for WW1.
if you asked to be more specific, i'd say the Hospital Section of 2nd Division (W.A.G.)
EDIT - i'm guessing a relative of yours was in this particular unit... maybe your mother? grandmother? aunt?
Congratulations! Please print out the coupon below and present to the barkeep (the real short guy) to redeem your prize.
The patch was worn by Australian Army Nursing Corps personnel assigned to British Field Hospitals (No's 42, 50, 52 and 60 General Hospitals, and briefly No. 66 General Hospital) in the Salonika Campaign in WWI. [:)]
I didn't really intend for it to be that obscure. I just thought it would be funny to have Bwian with an Australian Army Nursing Corps patch attending to Number 1 during an episode of intestinal distress.
i stared at that page a lot when searching for this -
but the patch shown appears to be black with a red
center (notice the contrast to the brown nearby)... i
probably should have thrown it in, but my brain just
filtered it out as "not brown"... [8|]
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The pic below is from the 80's TV series 'ANZACS' (review). Slightly different shape as it is 1st Aust. General Hospital, (1916 - 1918) but other wise the same.
Wow. Amazing that you were able to lay your hands on such a picture from 1985. The internet is a cool invention. [8D] I suppose the red rectangle or diamond represents the Red Ensign?
Hope you don't live in the Freemantle, Perth area..a battle is brewing.
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
i stared at that page a lot when searching for this -
but the patch shown appears to be black with a red
center (notice the contrast to the brown nearby)... i
probably should have thrown it in, but my brain just
filtered it out as "not brown"... [8|]
The jpg conversion lightened the chocolate color [:)] BTW, the specialty cocktails at the Officer's Club are only 1/2 dollar (US)....at least until there is a shortage of creme de menthe or something.
*********Aboard USS Minneapolis, near Port Moresby landing beaches, 13:20, July 4, 1942**********
Admiral Friedell was just beginning to permit himself an optimistic thought. The daily B-17 raids on the Jap airfields at Port Moresby were beginning to have an effect. There were no longer any enemy fighters in the area and there had been no aerial attacks on the vital transports for the entire operation. No mines were encountered. Even the fire from hidden batteries ashore was slackening somewhwat. True, the had been a small raid of 8 Betty bombers, perhaps from Lae, this morning and they had hit RNN Tromp and a RAN minesweeper, but the supplies were pouring ashore now. Perhaps another 12-18 hours?
The sound of Bofors firing could suddenly be heard astern. A lookout shouted, "Many bogies inbound bearing 200". Half a dozen binoculars rose to aid half a dozen pairs of eyes. Perhaps ten to twelve Bettys coming in on the deck and to their right another dozen bearing down on Minneapolis from abeam. The Admiral watched admiringly as the Bettys came in undeterred despite flak bursts in among their formation. It was not his job to command the ship and he had to stop himself from barking orders. It wasn't needed anyway as the Captain yelled, "All ahead full, hard left rudder, come to course....."
