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Anyway, tail rotors are overrated

It is amazing to me (and gratifying) that Hitler had so many innovative military technologies at his disposal and still managed to lose the war. He could have had the worlds first Air Mobile divisions.

He was just too occupied with that Xbox of his

So the teaching assistants at Foe's university are on strike because apparently being paid $40/hour for a STUDENT is considered too little.

Foe's dad has never made that much, and he is a computer programmer, and with a separate electrical engineering degree.

So they blocked off the entrances to all parking lots, and nobody can do anything because of slightly we tar did Canadian laws...

Foe's girlfriend captured it. Foe appears for a split second at the very end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZwcZV-nbY

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He was just too occupied with that Xbox of his

You know, I came across those a long time ago and forgot to tell you how brilliant that was.

You'll be getting more soon.

Sigh, Foe has panicked just now. Been studying Bioinformatics and Biochem, and decided to check if marks are posted for a microbial genetics midterm... That was a hard test, so Foe was expecting 65-70%... Found the mark. Saw that it is 31... Panicked. Thought he failed the test for the very subject he loves the most.


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Then read elsewhere that it is out of 40....

PHEW!!!

Foe feels stupid now

Today is Armistice Day.

The end of the war that was supposed to end all others 91 years ago.


Ive found a great animated map which explains the breakout of the war aswell as the consequences of its ending.

(Turn your speakers on)

Breakout of ww1

End of ww1

I happened to be in the car and I looked at the dashboard display and saw 11:11 11.11.2009....
And one thought shot through my mind:
"At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns of the great war fell silent."

A professor at Foe's class has tuned to CBC at 11, and everyone in the lecture hall did the minute of silence.

Foe's former cadets have been by the city hall, but Foe couldn't watch them cause he was at university.

As a boy in school many years ago I always liked it when November came around and we drew poppies and war pictures and always looked forward to our observance of two minutes of silent prayer and contemplation. I was also very conscious of today's solemnity as I went about on my volunteer driving for the Canadian Red Cross. I made sure I had poppy properly installed and set out. My client today was an older fellow and member of the Canadian Legion. It felt good to do a service for a former soldier on Nov. 11th. I've also had the privilege of having chauffered a number of Canadian veterans and one very distinctive British gentlemen who flew Fairey Battles during the Blitz of France in 1940. He told me a most amazing escape story:

He flew in with a group to attack a certain bridge but was hit and had to bail out on his way back to the Channel. He came down still behind German lines so when he hit the ground he knew he had to move west as fast as he could. Fortunately, he was wearing a generic sort of flight coveralls with no national insignia and possessed excellent German speaking skills. A Luftwaffe officer saw him and offered him a ride. Further down the road there was a checkpoint and he thought the jig would soon be up, but the guards recognized the officer and raised the barrier. A few miles down the road he thanked the German officer and asked to be let out. When the car was out of sight he hightailed it cross country. The front moved too fast for him to catch up to it, so he moved north and managed to board a small boat and get back to England. The next year he was shot down, but as France was by then occupied territory, he was captured upon landing and spent the duration in a POW camp. He's now nearly 90 but still walks with a spring in his step and one can easily tell that he is a former military men.

Another old boy I drive served four years in the RCAF, mainly on Lancasters. He flew many missions as a navigator but they pulled him out to be an instructor. After so much of that he went back on ops and somehow survived four years of active service in bombers.

They were an amazing generation of young men, and women too, lest we forget the women who served at home or sometimes behind enemy lines. I am currently rereading Max Hasting's "Das Reich" about the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division from the south of France to Normany after the D-Day landings. They were hounded much of the way by Resistance fighters, a goodly number of whom were women. Some of them paid with their lives. I know that most of us think of our own war dead, but I also remember the dead of the foe of the time. They were not all bad people necessarily and they did what their countries called upon them to do. If the men who fought them can forgive, I believe we can, too.

Thats a riveting story Kaleun.

Its hard to imagine how one can still escape from enemy territory with a bit of luck and strong nerves

Celeon is still working on his "American farmer's son from Twin Falls, Idaho ...William Mark Felt" cover story.

A bit of bubble gum chewing , a story on how my grandpa taught me fishing at Snake River (one of three big rivers in Idaho by the way), how i was a Running Back for the Bruins during my time at Twin Falls High School... and i should make my way towards the english channel and to that waiting uboat without any bigger problems.... ...

Did you know that our official state fruit is the Huckleberry ?

So Celeon got his swine flu vaccine shot today.

That stuff called Pandemrix.

Within the next three weeks Celeon will become immune to that nasty swine flu and with a high propability even against all possible mutation forms of it , thanks to that not less nasty booster stuff in it


Ok, i feel the strange and overwhelming desire to get rid of my clothes and to wallow in the mud now. But thats ok.

I had that before

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That stuff called Pandemrix.

Herr Celeon, come walk with me please. You see, we know you are not from Idaho and in fact you've given yourself away totally, since Pandemrix is only distributed in the EU.
Yes, wave goodbye to your kamerads.
Tell me, have you taken the 'lead poisoning' vaccination?

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That stuff called Pandemrix.

Herr Celeon, come walk with me please. You see, we know you are not from Idaho and in fact you've given yourself away totally, since Pandemrix is only distributed in the EU.
Yes, wave goodbye to your kamerads.
Tell me, have you taken the 'lead poisoning' vaccination?

Of course , Celeon made sure his vaccination was not poisened by the MI6.

Celeon knows that Pandemrix comes from the UK You dont get me that easily my old adversaries

So you're saying Pandemrix is unamerican, unpatriotic ?

It contains fragments of a swine flu original sample from California !

Thats good enough for a farmer's son from Idaho if you ask me

Celeon is not afraid of those boosters. It takes more to kill me Much more. Ask the CIA

The only side effects he felt were a mild headache and a bit of tireness.

Both were gone after a few hours.

Don't forget folks, new top gear on tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R135OMKjOlg

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Don't forget folks, new top gear on tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R135OMKjOlg

Its about time !

I wonder what that huge pipe thingy is they race the car through

No zeppelin crash in the teaser.. they save the real cool things for later

Strange german Telekom tv ad with Paul Potts

That was sort of organized flashmob event with ordinary people being asked to come to Leipzig's central station at a specified day and time without being told what would happen there.

Around 1000 people came and were surprised to hear that they would now sing Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy with Brits got Talent winner and opera singer Paul Potts.

Hmmmm....Interesting.....

Slovenia:Russia 1:0 (1:2). That means we are going to South Africa.

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Slovenia:Russia 1:0 (1:2). That means we are going to South Africa.

So the Sbornaja was defeated and does not go to South Africa ?

Congrats Slovenia

We got our fair share of a beating by Ivory Coast yesterday. 2:2

They are pretty good.

Podolski saved us in the overtime! with his second goal of the match.


Russia Today : President Medvedev vows to adress the lost world cup opportunity of the russian national football team "in a appropriate way"

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Here's a little thing Foe has noticed while Youtubing Russian songs.

Wasn't able to find videos of Russian airdrops of vehicles, how they are slowed down to prevent extra-hard impact

This is a good song, but if you just want to see what I was talking about, look at about 3:15

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