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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Bob Purton on December 16, 2012, 11:47:23 AM
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Morning all. John Jensen form the USA just sent me this photo he took with one hand on the wheel the other clicking the camera! Its close to where Big Al's uncle Alfred shot the film The Birds at Bodego bay, not sure if that's a fictitious name or not.
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great photo, lovely color ( dropped the u in defference :) ) looks like a slow bit just enjoying the view . brightens up a coolish, damp winters morn in u.k. now i wonder how i could make that my wallpaper for a while - to make me smile :)
just tried it but after instruction - thank you dearest ! i only got a small pic in the middle of the now black page - shucks
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I will forward the email to you Richard and maybe the photo will be bigger.
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I just made it my wallpaper. First like you it came up small and in the center. there is an option you click which is "stretch" now that will make it fill the screen. Job dome, now we can wake up in the morning to the Pacific ocean!
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I just made it my wallpaper. First like you it came up small and in the center. there is an option you click which is "stretch" now that will make it fill the screen. Job dome, now we can wake up in the morning to the Pacific ocean!
Is that one of the micro oceans or just a standard to very big one?
'Oh please yourselves'! (Root agrees, he is here after DPs)
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thanks for the help bob but i dont get the "stretch" option . i get fit to screen but it doesn't increase it .more shucks :-\ my ocean will just be micro then
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Lovely photo!
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Morning all. John Jensen form the USA just sent me this photo he took with one hand on the wheel the other clicking the camera! Its close to where Big Al's uncle Alfred shot the film The Birds at Bodego bay, not sure if that's a fictitious name or not.
I was just enjoying that view 2 weeks ago. Its even nicer with the sun reflecting off the ocean waves breaking on the jagged boulders in the bay, as seen from the cliffs above. Bodego Bay is a delightful small own. You can tour the schoolhouse on a street where the famous scene was shot of the children running while being attacked by the birds.
Does Big Al share than wit and his namesakes famous profile with the director of such dastardly events?
Funny that I just happen to be watching another well composed horror classic "the Shining" at this moment.
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Not sure but I try to appear in my own jokes.
Looks like a great place to take a run to. These are the sorts of things I like to do. Invading a site or well known place with a selection of suitably interesting cars with some purpose, to persuade folk it is worth the upheaval of having you there. This is easy to do with microcars now but it seems not to happen very often. Simple things like using the small temporary and disabled carpark on White Horse Hill can normally be done informally if your pilots are sensible about it and give way to bona fida users. So can you invade Holmfirth. That is one thing. But to get into the Oxford colleges and drive round the access ways, through cloisters to a reception in one of the yards/quadrangles or to drive the Barmouth Bridge and access the esplanade would be a whole other experience. These sorts of things can be done with the will and time to organize it. I get the feeling to get numbers you need one of these great opportunities to pull folk in nowadays. Then the problem becomes dealing with the non participant baggage train, which can be a bigger problem than the sorting out the actual attraction.
Great, then, to find a place of easy access that is both a beautiful place but also has celeb status.
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my little boy ( aargh 21 next week !) has come home and stretched the image to full size - which he didn't advise . the image is now my wallpaper but the Isettas are wider than they should be but still it's a great pic. funnily enough the wide blue sky looks just fine a bit wider
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Dear Bob and Richard
I gave up wallpaper years ago. Heavy duty Emulsion paint every time for me
Chris Thomas
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You can clean of the bird's droppings (red wine) with a wet sponge. no problem....
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Office party eh chris ?
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"The Birds", didnt Gregory Peck star in that film :D? Or was it George Seagull?
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anthea TERNer ?
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Arther Mullard?
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I apologise if this is relevant to "The Birds", but has nothing to do with RUMs - a BBC docu-drama about Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xjk69
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rod taylor of course just googled it - we have strayed a bit :D and you a moderator bob ;D
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No, I've given up, do what ever you like.
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No, I've given up, do what ever you like.
'Do anything you want to do' Eddie and the Hotrods - Local sounds coming in there Bob.
I love the idea of the romantic lead being 'Arfur' Mullard. 'Ere, wot are all these birds doing ere?' I am chortling all day on that one.
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wallpaper
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Now all we need is for someone else to get exactly the same photo but with Heinkel-Trojans, 'schmitts, Rovins and Morgan 3 wheelers!
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yes but your gonna need that sky !
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Definitely, and a sky as good as that certainly deserves to have a really nice looking car! (In my opinion!)
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So that's what all this wallpaper is about. Another PC mystery solved.
So girt screen in a fake garage door or rear of campervan and you can go outside and see any car you fancy in your garage or campervan without getting your hands dirty or your wallet open. I can see it catching on. Is this why there is a no photographs policy in museums these days?
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A lot of museums have no photos policy for several reasons. Obviously they want people to visit, and too many photos and you tube vids will reduce the desire for many people to visit. A lot of bigger museums have official photos and post cars of their exhibits for sale in their shops, taken by professional photographers usually with far better lighting than the "display" lighting which punters see. Also, when I go to a museum it is annoying when people's cameras keep flashing.
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That answer is far to sensible.
What about a museum of photography? I like the idea of a museum that can ban itself. Or the Museum of the Moving Image where blubbing is not allowed as well.
Driving round Leicester I am always amused by the signs to the British Space Centre. It is there they collect space so you can go and see it. That is why the country feels so much smaller these days as much of the space is in a building near Leicester. I expect it will be sold by the Government to Bangladesh or somewhere that needs a bit more due to population pressure when we are no looking. Then there will be the British Vacuum Centre as there was a Civil Service miscalculation and a Vacuum is a bit like Space so hopefully no one will notice, as if either is occupied, technically it no longer exists. Indeed the exact opposite of out monitory policy that will demand the sale of Space. 'A wormhole for our times' quoth Prime Minister Brian May after huge success in stepping in to a succession of vacancies requiring a Celeb with brains.
Next week I examine Quantum theory.
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A bit like the sign to the Secret nuclear bunker I drove past in my Schmitt the other year near Brentwood.