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It has come to my notice that while I wait for paint to dry here in Downunderland, the drips still go downwards just like they did in Engerland. As we are upside down, surely they should drip upwards.

Archie's has a problem that does not stem from the fact that the paint drips down, but that he refuse's to believe it can drip down :crazyeyes: .

Freud had a term for it a bit like his 'Freudian slips' (still don't know how you women can wear them, tend to find them tight across the shoulder's )

Archie has spent his life with the understanding and belief that if your on the otherside of the world you are upside down, the moon is made of cheese and all the other folk tale's he has heard, have manifested as truth's within him! :turn-l:

While most people have a reasonable comprehension of gravity, this is all just witch's talk to Archie, and anyone spouting it should be burned at the stake.

Archie can do two thing's to help him through this problem.

He can continue to beleive these tale's and hang his paintings upside down, beleiving all he has been told is true. But this will inevitably lead on to an infatuation with trying get water to go down the plug hole the correct way.

Or he can not bother with the watching paint dry and paining's altogether, and deny that gravity even exist's. But this will eventualy lead to a long slide into depression envolving heavy amount's of alcohol(having seen the amount's he drinks, i think he's gone way beyond this stage)

All this is associated with his unusual 'beyond belief, belief's' and with archie it is alway's beyond belief. And a strange infatuation with watching drying. :painting:

Oh yes Archie, got any more of that moon cheese.
That last batch went well in me cheese in pickle banjo's.

Painting is one of my least favourite things to do. Even less than moving house. In Septemeber, my dog got sprayed by a skunk and ran in the house. The smell was so bad, I had a sever headache and incredible heart burn within econds. In a fit of inspiration, I squirted lemon juice all over the bloody place, including the living room that I had just painted a moth before. The paint was wrecked!

Skunks are now firmly on the list of a very few small fury animals that I am willing to snuff without conscience!

I remember once as a youngster, I painted Eyes on the back of a tortoise.
But I have a brother in law who flies pigeons, anbd he reckons that
painting eyes on a pigeons wings deters hawks from attacking them.
any one got any theories on that one?.

Aye John_D

AS wrote "I had just painted a moth before".
What paint did you use,and did it flap /flutter much while it dried?.So far the most interesting way to watch paint dry!.

John_D
I heard that during the war our carrier pigeons had RAF roundels painted on their wings so that French Perigrine Falcons wouldn't attack them.

Gary

Hi S H
Yes that is where it came from, one of the old Pigeon fliers realised
and it was reintroduced, Its the same with the Peacock, I just though
that Some one May have another theory,

Catch you Later

Aye
John_D

Re the pigeons being painted during the war, my father-in-law ( not with us anymore) used to train the pigeons in the war, he used to race them prior to the war starting, and had many trophies to his credit. as he had flat feet, and they wouldn`t let him into the forces, he offered his services as pigeon trainer, and as you so rightly say, RAF roundels were indeed painted onto the wings of pigeons. This was my father-in-laws idea, and some where, Mrs Bootneck or her brothers have some phots of him with the pigeons. I`ll see if they still have them, and if so, post them on the site. fingers crossed. After the war, nedless to say, he carried on with his pigeons, and started cleaning up with trophies once again.

I know most of the stories, I heard them from the old flyers,
so many out of the top lofts were added to the list, If my info
is correct this is where the Royal lofts came into play,. I know
or knew a couple of the flyers who sent some along, they were
in the same situation as your father in law reguarding service,
again if memory serves correct, I think it was a special Branch
formed for the one perpous the birds flew back to their own lofts.

Aye

John_D

old scaly back wrote:Just to add a touch of anarak(ism).
If you was in the toilet compartment on the plane and washed your hands in the sink.
In England the water would drain out clockwise.
As you went over the Equator the water wouldnt turn as it drained.
In Australia it would drain out anticlockwise.
This is due to the rotation of the earth.zzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'm afraid that's a myth...

http://home.thezone.net/~bwhiffen/articles/Coriolis.htm

Shoulders: Yes, my keyboarding skills are shite, especially when I can't be bothered. "Moth", "month", it's all the same to me.

As for myth's: What isn't a myth is the continental devide in Canada. Right by the Alberta/BC border. You can see the water come down the mountain and then flow both east and west at the same time at the bottom. Quite weird to watch.

Mrs Bootneck said that some of the birds he had were, red checker, blue checker, checker pied( which were the best homers) in fact, the checker pied were more suited to arctic operations. Mrs Bootneck said that he had a folder, with many ideas in, of which the MoD were very interested, especially about training the pigeons to fly over sites of particular military importance, and hopefully, have a camera fitted. obviously the camera had to be small, and have some type of device fitted to take the said phots. All this never happened, as the war came to a close. He also had Tumblers,which were stayed in the air a while, but were reluctant to come home. ( a bit like a bootneck on a run ashore.)

Watching Paint dry just bores the S. H. *. T. out of me!

Yee Haa! Away you buggers! (I had 47)

Artist

Did you know that the Pigeon was used in the military
upto 1956, were upon it was replaced by electronic devices

John_D

Ok which one of you lot nicked the pigeon and ate it.Aye JR

I dont know about jim
But the wife has just called to say my tea was cooooooooook

John_D