Stumpy

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  4. Rock climbing is one thing - carry an inhaler and you can probably deal, but scuba is something completely different. Very dry air 20m under the surface might not be the best idea, i know people who have been turned down by their doctors because of it, and its not somewhere you want to be if you have an attack.

    BTW, I'm no expert and am not asthmatic so don't take my word for anything!
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  5. No and unfortunately i didn't factor in the cost of the cryogenics so that I can be frozen until they figure out how to get a plane that high as well:P:ph34r:
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  7. Am desperately trying to emigrate to NZ as we speak - but need a job offer out there in IT (hint hint if anyone can help!)
    I reckon i should do it while i still have no commitments or dependents...
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  9. Some help would be appreciated guys!
    In MS word i'm trying to add a printed watermark to some pages of a document and not to others, yet it seems to be all or nothing. If anyone has a way to do this i'd be eternally grateful!!!

    Cheers

    Dave
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  11. "Don't leave" by faithless - actually, might be more of a breakup song but it didn't have that meaning for me and my SO at the time!!
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  12. Took me a minute to get what you were on about - mu browser window opened really small and i thought you were talking about the truck in the background!!!:D:D
    Thought everyone was getting a bit enthusiastic :ph34r:
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    What about the "added" content on the DVD? Worth buying the DVD (already have the video version) anyway?


    Hmmm, debatable. A lot of less edited stuff but essentially the same material. Having said that I liked watching it because a lot more was in real time. i'm still pretty new to this and seeing it in real time makes it even more impressive.
    If you can live without that then its quite an expensive dvd so maybe i wouldn't bother if you already have the vid. Just my thoughts
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    All the runners up you mention survived thus are ineligible.


    I thought this after I posted it however the one that made me chuckle most was the bank robber mixing his words up...
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  21. In which case dave, I didn't realise there was such a case involved and I wouldn't have posted it

    Apologies - It just made me laugh
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  22. I hope these haven't been posted before.... but i have just been trying to stifle laughter at work so thought I would share!

    Never ceasing to amaze.....

    As you probably already know, the Darwin awards are awarded annually for the most extreme act of (occasionally terminal) stupidity -- they are now in for 2003.

    RUNNER-UP The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company, suspecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine out and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

    RUNNER-UP A man who shovelled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

    RUNNER-UP After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

    RUNNER-UP An American teenager was in the hospital yesterday recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

    RUNNER-UP A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which he clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer? $15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, was a crime committed?)

    RUNNER-UP A thief burst into a Florida bank one day wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun. Aiming his gun at the guard, the thief yelled, "FREEZE, Mother-Stickers--This is a F***-up! For a moment, everyone was silent. Then the snickers started. The guard completely lost it and doubled over laughing. It probably saved his life, because he'd been about to draw his gun. He couldn't have drawn and fired before the thief got him. The thief ran away and is still at large. In memory of the event, the banker later put a plaque on the wall engraved with the words, "Freeze, mother-stickers, this is a f**-up!"

    RUNNER-UP Seems this Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of Plexiglas The whole event was caught on videotape.

    RUNNER-UP As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

    RUNNER-UP The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

    RUNNER-UP Kentucky Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper. They were quickly arrested.

    A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER! When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

    DARWIN WINNER, 2003. When his 38-calibre Revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder: He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
    :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:;)
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  24. I agree that the canon funtionality is really good, but a friend of mine has just bought a Nikon top end digital (F5D or something - I was too busy oohing and aaahing to see exactly what it was!?) and the build quality is second to none.
    When they bring the price down I will buy one but saving up all money for my jumping and a new rig this year!
    Do you camera fliers get the lightest stills cameras you can? The Nikons are heavy
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