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2006-10-22 
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Posted by Fred 2006-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Apparently her hair got lighter when she got older
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-22 00:04||   2006-10-22 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, nuttin wrong with a bit of Vegemite!

I love it on toast with lots of butter. Plus you know US company Kraft makes it, it's not Aussie at all.
Posted by anon1 2006-10-22 00:12||   2006-10-22 00:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Drop the tube of Foster's and back away from the keyboard, anon1.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-22 01:53||   2006-10-22 01:53|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL!

No Aussie drinks Fosters!! we drink Coopers or Melbourne Bitter or occassionally XXXX gold or VB...

But we export lots of Fosters to every other country and pretend we drink it! Go figure...
Posted by anon1 2006-10-22 01:58||   2006-10-22 01:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Fear not, I'm familiar with how Carlton has raped this once honorable brand. I was just resorting to a Pythonesque bit of versifying. Yer talking to someone who associates Barry Humphries more with Bazza MacKenzie than Dame Edna, emkay?

A few decades ago, Foster's was one of the better lagers to be had on a global basis. Sadly, today only the bitters has any character to it at all. Of course, I still retain one or two of the old steel oil cans in my beer collection.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-22 02:32||   2006-10-22 02:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Angie owned quite a stable of stars in her day.
Posted by .com 2006-10-22 04:39||   2006-10-22 04:39|| Front Page Top

#7 "Vegemite"? Small world. On a working vacation, I once packed cheese at Kraft (Salmon Street, Port Melbourne), next to the vegemite mixers.
Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-22 06:09||   2006-10-22 06:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I sure wouldn't mind being reincarnated as that lounge chair; maybe with a jar of Vegemite for extra flavor.
Posted by Whomoque Gravimp8761 2006-10-22 09:56||   2006-10-22 09:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Angie Dickinson is a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.

She was married to Burt Bacharach but then again who hasn't been?

I was trying to find info on WW II actresses who contributed to the war. One helped invent something to do with radar or decoding as I recall hearing the story. Another was involved in the French resistance. However, I can't recall their names and can't find anything on the internet. Anyone else hear these stories and know the names?

Posted by JohnQC 2006-10-22 14:17||   2006-10-22 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Hedy Lamar had a patent that led to the modern cellphone, she might be the inventor you are thinking of.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-22 18:02||   2006-10-22 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 And the French actress, Charlotte Delbo, was sent to a concentration camp as a member of the Resistance. She survived the camp and the war.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-22 18:07||   2006-10-22 18:07|| Front Page Top

#12 First, Angie. "Not much meat on those bones but, what's there is cherse." (I know that's about Katherine Hepburn.)

Next, WW2 trivia, maybe you're thinking of Julia Child, alledgedly was an agent for the OSS.
Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839  2006-10-22 18:16||   2006-10-22 18:16|| Front Page Top

#13 IIRC, Julia Child wasn't an agent but a secretary. She went to cooking school while stationed in France because she met and married a gentleman who loved good cooking, and Julia couldn't so much as boil an egg.

I think Shieldwolf is right about Hedy Lamarr.
Posted by mom 2006-10-22 19:24||   2006-10-22 19:24|| Front Page Top

#14 "Thats Hedley!"
Posted by Haliburton Blazing Saddles Reference Division 2006-10-22 19:28||   2006-10-22 19:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Hedy Lamarr co-patented a radio spread spectrum frequency hopping guidance system for torpedos, and offered it to the Navy at the beginning of WWII. Great concept, but a problem in functional development.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-22 20:16||   2006-10-22 20:16|| Front Page Top

#16 
Today Hollywood, for the most part, has a bunch of nitwits. We don't find actors or actresses such as Clark Gable, Lee Marvin, Jimmy Stewart, Hedy Lamar and many others who fought for and supported this country during WW II.
Posted by JohnQC 2006-10-22 20:52||   2006-10-22 20:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Julia Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after being turned down by the US Navy for being too tall.

She worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section in Washington, D.C., where she was a file clerk and also helped in the development of a shark repellent. She was aalso stationed in Ceylon and China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
Posted by Pappy 2006-10-22 22:49||   2006-10-22 22:49|| Front Page Top

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