Not sure if anyone else is celebrating Halloween but we are having a pumpkin carving competition at work and here is my entry.
Some artists at work ??? woo_hoo
Looks awesome in the dark. Well done Dunja.
Very nice indeed, Dunja! Looks great - hope you win the competition.
WOW! Well done - hope you win!
bravo
Here is a good one for halloween. Phone some one you don't like that much.........
Ask that person for a favour.........
Hopefully they reply sure what do you need??????????
You say Can I borrow your face for Halloween. 202 202 202
Works just as well as Are you normally an arse hole or do you just work extremely hard at it?????
@ Dunja - It's a work of art. Well done! Will hold thumbs for you!
@ Skinny - That's a great one! I've got the perfect person I'd like to ask for that favor! Definitely going to use it! Thanx. image201
Your pumpkin looks absolutely stunning Dunja yougogirl
Excellent Danja......of course you going to win.m
a work of art indeed ...
3d smiles(281) THANKS EVERYONE !
Will let you know later today how it went.
Couldn't you at least have cleaned your kitchen before taking the pic...tsk...tsk...
Just to make Carl happy
:emot112_2: Now that looks better. Thanks Snr. Imagine the unemployment in SA if cleaning your house was that easy... 202
Daddy G - will you clean my house as well pls
feel like a pumpkin on the braai today! image203
Quote from: Rhona on November 01, 2008, 08:47:20 AM
Daddy G - will you clean my house as well pls
That depends what you got to offer in return, will you sing me some irish songs ???? That would be fine then
Or do you play the tin whistle, play the the" Last Rose" for me !!!!
When shall i come over ??? kiss
Yikes that must be a weird feeling eh Mike ? ha ha image04
Yip must make him feel HOT and YOUNG again.
So......did you win, did you, did you??
notfair The judge went home early on Friday BoomSmilie_anim and said that she will give us the results on Mon. I won't be at work on Monday so I guess I will find out on Tuesday.....
I Doth protest.;..... Rhona and Stennie will know this:
"Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun?
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in Nineteen-Sixteen.
Well I hoped you died quick, and I hoped you died clean,
Or Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post in chorus,
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart, is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in Nineteen-Sixteen,
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen,
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post in chorus,
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow,
No gas, no barbed wire; no guns firing now!
But here in this graveyard, that's still no mans land,
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
To a man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And I can't help but wonder oh Willie McBride,
Do all those that lie here know why they died,
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause,
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffring', the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
The killing and dying it was all done in vain.
Oh Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again and again and again and again!
Did they beat the drums slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly,
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post in chorus,
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?"
...did the band play the last chorus........"says I"
Here what mike is talking about
One of many cemetries in the area of verdun
Poppies 4 ever.... "sad stuff! .... but the truth!"
The war to end all wars!
like F*&k!
You´re right Mike very sad
Come to think of, the soldiers on both sides,
german french english, stopped fighting, they had enough of the nonsense
but the generals forced them to go on with the threat of executions which have also taken place.....
Feel like puking knowing the stories behind it..... Still very fresh in my mind after visiting some few weeks back
Nothing but a war over politicians and political pride..... image14
''The Green Fields of France'' by The Furey brothers.............I sang it all the way through - I love that song! Always good during a lock-in image203
Just going through those words again! Quite powerfull stuff
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The irish sing it with an odd word different but with a whole lot of feeling..............eyes closed and away you go banjo
I was thinkin' more o' the Scottish version by the Corries!
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Get out if it - Blerrie Scottish stealing our songs........ image21
Nov 11th armastice day .. the day of poppies .. very significant .. 5 good people in my life have their birthday on the same day including John 11/11/47 ... and yes the foolishness of war ... we must remember .. and try not to repeat the same mistakes ..
Quote from: georgswa (Georg Ruf) on November 01, 2008, 04:57:32 PM
You´re right Mike very sad
Come to think of, the soldiers on both sides,
german french english, stopped fighting, they had enough of the nonsense
but the generals forced them to go on with the threat of executions which have also taken place.....
Feel like puking knowing the stories behind it..... Still very fresh in my mind after visiting some few weeks back
Couldn't agree more Snr. WW1 was more of a war that nobody wanted as compared to WW2. There are wonderfull stories surfacing nowdays of the cameraderie between both sides, where exchanges of food and medical supplies took place between the opposing trenches. One famous incident took place over Christmas once when the Brittish and German forces downed weapons and joined eachother to celebrate Christmas, sharing their meagre rations with eachother before resuming hostilities again a day later.
Wasn't there a game of soccor played as well on Christmas day..............Paul Mc Cartney sang a song and had this image in the video - think the song was 'Pipes of Peace'
I think the soccer game was played on boxing day, Rhona. I'm not sure what the final score was though, only recall they made a ball from a rolled up blanket tied together with string. Great stuff nevertheless. One image that quite touched me was from actual footage filmed on the day when they had a christmas carol sing along on christmas eve and shared photos of their families back home with one-another, afterwards they exchanged small gifts of chocolates or cigaretts with eachother.
Oh what a lovely war
Players Oranjemund 1978
The End.....
http://georgswa.ge.ohost.de/omund/Adieu.mp3 ..................... Chris Lotte and Georg Ruf
And then the Americans tried the same gesture of goodwill in Vietnam prior to the Vietnamese new year (TET) celebrations. Boy, didn't that one come back and bite them in the arse. Damm scum suckin commies... 202
So...SO... what happened about your pumpkin, Danja?????? Did you win or was it rigged?
:nono1: My colleague won. I will post pics of the winning pumpkin later today.....
First Place
2nd Place
3rd Place cat3
You are still a winner, 3 rd place is ok
And mine... ha ha
Excellent job on all 3 pumpkins. :emot112_2:
Brilliant pumpkins - loved the ghost :emot112_2: