I could see a few of you guys doing this in 20 or 30 years

[uwe]

Actually, I'm pretty sure Iceland's deforestation is Ritchie Blackmore's fault  

That's an outright lie, the man has restored foilage when- and wherever he could!





YOUR FUR IS MINE, KITTY!!!

[Highlander]

That bridge was, if memory serves, poorly designed (albeit under supervision of our Pacific Axis partners), it didn't last very long.

Err.. technically speaking, it's still there, albeit over a river that is not named Kwai (there isn't one) and the film, the Railway Man (out next year) details some of this...

There are two classic modern titles (a friend got the author of one to sign a copy for me) on that bridge, and some friends have visited the site - the oddest bit was how close the stories ran, and that they both waited until the twilight of their lives (one has now passed) - the both had the following parallels... Singapore at the fall, Changi prison, the Death Railway (Kwai), the Death March, the Hell ships, being torpedoed by USofA subs and being rescued, if you could call it, by other Hell ships, making it to Japan, and witnessing Nagasaki, first hand... the book I have, the Forgotten Highlander, brings tears to the eyes; a more harrowing single account of war I have never read; combined books on Japanese war crimes are medieval in their barbarity...

[jumbodbassman]

o guage trains here.  but no running sets since the kids....   I figure when they are all out and I am retired that will become my fulltime hobby.