The end is near ....

[Tinhead]

At least for 2005.

It was a very exiting and interesting year. My last day at work (for this year) and I would like to wish all of you

MERRY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

All the best from down here.

Rainer

[ovyyus]

Thanks Rainer - the same to you and everyone else on the forum.

Let's hope the end will be swift and painless :P

[ken_behrendt]

Yes, Merry Christmas to all of our friends in New Zealand and Australia...may your New Year bring you success in your attempts to obtain the "Holy Grail" of mechanics...


ken

[SeaWasp]

A Big MERRY XMAS! & or Happy Holidays!

To All Members & Guests at Bessler Wheel Board!

[Jonathan]

Merry Christmas!

[meagain]

down here ?? not another australian are they takeing over the world??
merry christmas too
Meagain

[Tinhead]

naaaa, not australian, much better:
Kiwi ... New Zealand rocks :o)


Cheers,
Rainer

[AgingYoung]

Didn't New Zealand just beat Australia in an annual soccer game? What do they call that cup? I think that when New Zealand wins it's like David and Goliath. What's the population of New Zealand compared to Australia? Little island like New Zealand winning. That's got to be humiliating.

New Zealand:

• total: 268,680 sq km (about the size of Colorado)

• Population: 4,035,461 (July 2005 est.)

Australia

• total: 7,686,850 sq km (slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states)

• Population: 20,090,437 (July 2005 est.)

Just looked it up, cia fact book. :) What can you say.

Gene

[graham]

What is "Waltzing Matilda" anyway ; What does it mean ?

You guys have it all arse backwards down there ,really, celebrating Christmas in the Summer, come on now , get with the program.

Graham

[rlortie]

graham,

Go here to learn about "Waltzing Matilda" it is Austrailia's unofficial National Anthem.

http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/

Song made a great hit in a 1959 movie titled "On the Beach" Staring Gregory Peck, Ave Gardner and Fred astaire. By Stanley Kramer, filmed in Austrailia. A film masterpiece worth watching in black and white. It depicts the end of man caused by nuclear destruction.

Merry Christmas To All from Ralphs and Gails wheel shop.

Ralph and Gail

[graham]

A film masterpiece worth watching in black and white. It depicts the end of man caused by nuclear destruction.
Merry Christmas To All from Ralphs and Gails wheel shop

Thankyou Ralph, a film to bring joy to the hearts of mankind :-)

Merry Christrmas Ralph.

Graham

[ken_behrendt]

I vaguely remember that film. It depicts the crew of a US Navy submarine out in the pacific on patrol when a nuclear war breaks out. They do some calculations that show that, while the air in the northern hemisphere is lethally radioactive, the air in the southern hemisphere might be okay to breathe. So, they head for a naval base in Australia.

Everything is okay for a while after they arrive, but then, due to the mixing of air between the northern and southern hemispheres, the background radiation levels down in Australia begin to rise toward the lethal range and the crew and their new girlfriends realize that they will all soon be dead from radiation poisoning.

While that movie is interesting anti-nuke / anti-war sci-fi, I still prefer the film versions of Dicken's Christmas Carol at this time of year!


ken

[SeaWasp]

[Wheeler]

From the HMS Bessler crew
May the New Year find us all in ship shape!

[SeaWasp]

10.. 9.. 8..

Since we here in Australia are in the "future" as compared to most other countries.. :-p

We get to the new year a lot quicker! LOL! So on this New Year's Eve...

I would like to extend a


And may you all have a happy healthy & very prosperous 2006!