true … that was Uncle Jimmy if I recall correctly … although he may not have been the first either.

501st running around ghosts ?
I’m guessing it’s a German thing ? 😀

I wasn’t sure what to post in a new thread myself, but I didn’t want to accidentally create a duplicate one either.

Anyways …
For some reason I did f*ck all this weekend,…[Read more]

so I’m guessing we keep this one alive ?

You’re always free to start a new one yourself. It’s not like I invented that thing. I just went with it way back when… I must admit I have forgotten who done it before me.

I had a long weekend and it was stuffed with things. Including going to the zoo and watching the 501st run around little ghosts XD (…[Read more]

Yes – I know several Canadians who served there, and also some Americans who left because of the war, but joined the Canadian army. There was a large exhibit at the local military museum (2nd largest in Canada) on the Canadians who served. In a book I have on the USMC, there’s a photo identified as a Montreal native who served!

Both stories are i…[Read more]

oooh … youtube has a lot of content about making your own Halloween decorations.
Including some basic movement and up to animatronics.
What a world to be alive 😀

It’s been quiet and ‘ol @sundancer hasn’t started a new weekender … so I’m guessing we keep this one alive…[Read more]

I was thinking of $US. Sorry to hear about the state of yours but it’s probably better than sterling.

Incidentally, I understand that the number of Canadian volunteers in Vietnam was about 15,000, i.e. more or less the same as the number of draft-dodgers who escaped there. Irrelevant but interesting, I feel.