>floods on Sky News!!!  Now I'm living on the coastline of Australia in the
>Fraser Island area.  (HINT:  I can see Fraser Island from here).  The

Hervey Bay or Rainbow Beach perhaps ?

I just about grew up in Hervey Bay.

As for floods, I remember the last really big ones that came through (1973 or
74). I was in Maryborough at the time. We were using boats to get about the
main street.

-- Chris Cason

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Yep, Hervey Bay actually.  The floods didn't hit Maryborough as much as
people expected this time.  In fact there was little activity.
Unfortunately it delayed a school swimming festeval here, which meant I
couldn't have the day off ;-)  he he he  Actually, it was delayed until
today... so that's why I've been posting messages throughout the day he he
he

Of course around here it is all pretty flat, so when there's a hightide,
WATCH OUT!!!  :)  Do you remember the Hervey Bay Pier?  Well, they are
finally restoring it now, it is nearly all done, there's only about 50-100m
to go.

As for the surf, there is none, it's more rippley, like something out of a
raytraced sunset scene!!!  :)

Lance.


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'T was on Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:49:26 +0100,
that Johannes Hubert wrote:
> Tell this to the poor people that had to endure Rudi Carrell (spelling?) for
> decades in german TV, who even after those decades still sounds dutch.
> Pronounce everything right? Yeah, sure!

Rudy Carell can't pronounce Dutch as well, so he's not to be used as an 
example. How about Linda de Mol?

Phoenix

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'T was on Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:11:44 +0100,
that Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> "Site-ce de Roeuilteur"

It took me some time to recognize my name in that...

<about 'ui'>
> The German and the English speakers simply CAN'T

That's a fact. Even when giving them a vocal example, they can't work it 
out. It always ends up horrible.


> But then some Dutch can't even pronounce it right


People from The Hague do not count as Dutch. Neither do people from the 
village of Zwaagwesteinde...    >8->

Phoenix

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Phoenix wrote:
> 

> How about Linda de Mol?
> 

As terrible as Rudy Carrel or Harry Winfurt (?).

But I think they just fake this dialect in a way because it is so
succesful in the german TV.
I have some friends in the Netherlands one of they a german that lives
there now for about 15 years. She can't speak german anymore. :-)

I can't support the oppion of Rudy but I guess as long as I can't speak
Dutch this nothing that really matters. ;-)

Greetings,

Marc
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That's what they'd have you believe ;) but Atlanta is simply a concept
of the original, since Montgomery, AL was the Confederate Capitol after
all you know.
Actually, Decatur, AL is about 25 miles N.W. of a region which was known
as the Free State of Winston (my parents have a place on Lewis Smith
Lake there) during the American Civil War. A "hill-people" group, as
they were called, secceeded from the secceeding Confederate States.
Probably not a very well known history lesson, but probably the
predominant opinion today if not back then, or is that my opinion.
If you think about it, the American Revolution was the English civil war
and it's more an oddity that civil break-up doesn't occur more often,
given the fact that this is always going on (world-wide occurances). The
simple fact that the U.S. sees a totally unioned principle is basically
ludicrous in the face of such history. England didn't want to part
company either obviously. Why should anyone, anytime, be any different?
{stepping down off the soap box now}

P.S. good thing this is in the povray.general newsgroup! I'm just glad
to see a healthy thread of posts not reffering to "z" or "s" in words
and those html flamings.


Psychomek wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> > That it is.
> >
> > Bob and Kelly Crispen wrote:
> > >
> > > Decatur Alabama.  The Heart of Dixie.
> > > --
> > > Bob Crispen
> > > cri### [at] hiwaaynet
> > > "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
> > > -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
> >
> > --
> >  omniVERSE: beyond the universe
> >   http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
> >  mailto:inv### [at] aolcom?PoV
> 
> I thought Atlanta, Georgia was the heart of Dixie!

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"Lance Birch" <zon### [at] satcomnetau> wrote:

>Unfortunately it delayed a school swimming festeval here, which meant I

At the pool opposite Central State School, right ... ?

Next time you're there, as you go up John street away from the school,
you will pass a church on the right hand side (St Stephens as I recall).
Immediately after that is a school playing field. Well, there used to
be a house there, and that is where I spent a good part of my youth. If you
have ever driven up John street, you have certainly driven past my mother's
house.

>WATCH OUT!!!  :)  Do you remember the Hervey Bay Pier?  Well, they are
>finally restoring it now, it is nearly all done, there's only about 50-100m
>to go.

How could I forget the Urangan Pier ? When at the bay I spent time virtually
every day fishing off that pier. We stayed in the same flats every time,
literally 50 meters away.

I remember it how it used to be - very long (100m ? 150m?), with a 'L' shaped
section at the end where the ships used to berth to deliver fuel or oil. That
was then pumped down the wide metal pipe that used to be on the pier (is it
still there ?).

The railway tracks that went out to the end were used to run supplies up to the
ships. Don't know if they're restoring that but I'm glad to hear that they are
doing something to fix it after that fire. The 'L' section at the end was
deliberately removed sometime in the 70's so I'd guess they're not going to put
it back.

I don't know if you still have to detour around the railway line that comes
off the pier - back in the 60's and 70's, if you were going down the esplanade
from Scarness, and reached the pier, you had to turn right in a big detour of
about 100m, then drive back up the other side. You can probably drive right
across now. The road turned into sand about 50m further on, just after a set of
four flats called (as I recall) 'Beach View'. If they're still there, that's
where I spent about 16 weeks out of every year for about 15 years straight. 
They were in rather poor condition last time I was there (late 80's), but back
in the 60's/70's they were really nice (I still have photos to remind me ;)

>As for the surf, there is none, it's more rippley, like something out of a
>raytraced sunset scene!!!  :)

Yes, indeed, I remember that. Opposite the flats where we stayed, we'd get
a difference of about 500 meters between high and low tides since the water
is so shallow. Not conducive to surf ;)

I still remember to this day once in the early 70's when I was swimming (a
little further up, past the pier) some dolphins came right in to us and let us
stroke them. These were wild - they weren't known to the locals to frequent the
area. Just one of those happenstances I guess.

-- Chris

PS are Sour's pies still in Maryborough ?

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I'll write you an email with all the details if you want (it could be pretty
long, I've got a lot to say)

If you want, email me at zon### [at] satcomnetau with an appropriate
address.

:)

It's still there, and guess what, the other day I saw two dolphines swimming
in the bay about 10m from the shore...

--
Lance.


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Bob Hughes wrote in message <36CCA4C6.896679BA@aol.com>...
>I'm having a bit of trouble following all the places listed so far.
>Latitude/longitude anyone?
>
>86 degrees 52 minutes West longitude, 34 degrees 32 minutes North
>latitude.


0 degrees 35 minutes West longitude, 51 degrees 14 minutes North latitude


Matt

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Beleive me, that's nothing new. My last name is English. Just like the
language. I live in America and my father goes back 10 generations in America
and my mother's parents were born in England.

Taking all that into account... people still don't get MY last name right.
I've even had substitute teachers tell me that it couldn't be a last name.

And yes, people have mispronouced it. At that point I threaten to go back to
one the the early spelling (12th century, I think) : Ynglysshe

Margus Ramst wrote:

> Heh, it seems impossible for the English to pronounce my last name. They
> just can't do it. Never.
>
> Margus
>
> Phoenix wrote in message ...
> >
> >Sietse de Ruiter, The Netherlands (Holland if you must).
> >
> >But since most people get serious tongue injuries trying to pronounce my
> >real name, I go by the nick of Phoenix.
> >
> >Phoenix
> >
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