i tried for years to invent the corn slice...you know...you make a
sandwhich that has a corn slice ( like a cheese slice )...melted alot
of bland cheese...mixed in creamed corn...corn soup..etc...let it get
cold and flat...never made a viable corn slice...could have been worth
millions today..
Originally posted by darvlayA member of my family tree is awaiting trial in a South American jail for the past year after being accused of trying to smuggle 6kg of cocaine into Ireland.
Tell me something interesting about your family or a member of your family.
My Aunt is a fashion designer in Toronto who specializes in powersuits for female news anchors.
My Great Uncle, whom I've only met twice, is a Yakuza in the Japanese mafia. He's missing half of his pinky finger and when I met him the first time (Christmas 1987) he gave me a thousand dollars in fifties in a bankroll.
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Originally posted by shavixmirHmm. My forebears seem to have had a much more interesting life than mine. My one uncle was shot down three times during WWII but didn't make it the last time. The other uncle bombed the Tirpitz in Norway a couple of times and got a DFC for that. My other great grandmother was made an honorary chieftainess of the Herero tribe in Namibia for sheltering Herero tribespeople during the German genocide of 1905/6.
I'd have to ask my Mum to be sure, but I think it was a U-boat.
A great great something uncle was Richard Gird, an assayer in Tombstone, a one-third partner in the Lucky Cuss silver mine discovered about 1879 and got fabulously rich. Family talk is that he died single in a hotel in New York and left his money to a bellhop.
Originally posted by GENGARU-boats were designed to sink ships, not shoot down aircraft. I doubt a u-boat would engage an aircraft in combat unless it was attacked on the surface. I also doubt that a Canadian "weather airplane" would have the wherewithal to attack a u-boat. I think perhaps Shavixmir has distorted the facts over the years.
it is self evident...the gentleman navigator...headed the plane out
to sea ....there were plenty of u-boats in the west atlantic in the early
years of the war...that was a prime u-boat strategy...to knock out supplies from the western hemisphere...
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Originally posted by rwingettU-Boat = Submarine
U-boats were designed to sink ships, not shoot down aircraft. I doubt a u-boat would engage an aircraft in combat unless it was attacked on the surface. I also doubt that a Canadian "weather airplane" would have the wherewithal to attack a u-boat. I think perhaps Shavixmir has distorted the facts over the years.
Right?