Comments on: Battle of Brisbane http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:15:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Alex http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4553 Alex Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:13:17 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4553 "I'm a Country member.." "Yeah, we remember!" Ah, Australian politics... “I’m a Country member..”

“Yeah, we remember!”

Ah, Australian politics…

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4533 Brett Holman Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:52:25 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4533 Oh, the hilarity! Had to be said ... Oh, the hilarity!

Had to be said …

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4496 Chris Williams Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:22:51 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4496 On the other hand, according to wikipedia, one of the crew of K-74 managed to fall into the so far unique category of 'Only Bloke To Be Shot Down In A Helium Airship And Subsequently Eaten By A Shark', so it probably wasn't overly funny at the time. Still, the rest of the crew was rescued. On the other hand, according to wikipedia, one of the crew of K-74 managed to fall into the so far unique category of ‘Only Bloke To Be Shot Down In A Helium Airship And Subsequently Eaten By A Shark’, so it probably wasn’t overly funny at the time. Still, the rest of the crew was rescued.

]]> By: Christine Keeler http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4479 Christine Keeler Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:59:55 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4479 Or Ned Flandererses Or Ned Flandererses

]]> By: Christine Keeler http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4478 Christine Keeler Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:58:27 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4478 <i>"...whilst the crew scream in unnaturally high-pitched voices."</i> Only if they're Bosch. “…whilst the crew scream in unnaturally high-pitched voices.”

Only if they’re Bosch.

]]> By: Dan http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4475 Dan Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:48:23 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4475 What happens if you shoot down a helium airship? I have a mental image of a slow descent to earth whilst the crew scream in unnaturally high-pitched voices. What happens if you shoot down a helium airship? I have a mental image of a slow descent to earth whilst the crew scream in unnaturally high-pitched voices.

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4465 Chris Williams Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:11:54 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4465 Did anyone ever shoot down a helium-filled airship? (Googles, answers own question - yes, U-134 shot down K-74) Did anyone ever shoot down a helium-filled airship?

(Googles, answers own question – yes, U-134 shot down K-74)

]]> By: Christine Keeler http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4464 Christine Keeler Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:06:16 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4464 Oh steady on! We do not need legislation! Just get a few of the chaps up in those spiffing new Sopwith Camels and we'll show the blasted airship rotters what for. Avenge brave little Belgium! Oh steady on! We do not need legislation! Just get a few of the chaps up in those spiffing new Sopwith Camels and we’ll show the blasted airship rotters what for.

Avenge brave little Belgium!

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4461 Brett Holman Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:17:26 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4461 Fair crack of the whip, Chris! Keating may have been rough as guts in his expression, but he certainly drew inspiration from the Imperial Parliament. Compare his description of a verbal attack by the leader of the Opposition, John Hewson, as 'like being flogged with a warm lettuce', with Denis Healey's (earlier) characterisation of an attack by Geoffrey Howe as 'rather like being savaged by a dead sheep'. OK, so Keating generally took his insults a bit further than that. We're just somewhat less restrained down here. <em>Very</em> somewhat. Thanks for the link -- I do miss Paul! Fair crack of the whip, Chris! Keating may have been rough as guts in his expression, but he certainly drew inspiration from the Imperial Parliament. Compare his description of a verbal attack by the leader of the Opposition, John Hewson, as ‘like being flogged with a warm lettuce’, with Denis Healey’s (earlier) characterisation of an attack by Geoffrey Howe as ‘rather like being savaged by a dead sheep’. OK, so Keating generally took his insults a bit further than that. We’re just somewhat less restrained down here. Very somewhat.

Thanks for the link — I do miss Paul!

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/comment-page-1/#comment-4460 Chris Williams Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:54:33 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/10/27/battle-of-brisbane/#comment-4460 That's the first time I've heard the Australia state - yet alone the state of Queensland - described as a 'civil power'. Yesterday the Shadow Chancellor had to apologise to the Mother of Parliaments for using the word 'effing'. Yet in one of the Mother's wayward daughters, phrases like "I am not like the Leader of the Opposition. I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot..." and " all through question time those pansies over there want retractions of the things we've said about them. They are a bunch of nobodies going nowhere.""are uttered with abandon. [Both from the Paul Keating insult archive at http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/] That’s the first time I’ve heard the Australia state – yet alone the state of Queensland – described as a ‘civil power’. Yesterday the Shadow Chancellor had to apologise to the Mother of Parliaments for using the word ‘effing’. Yet in one of the Mother’s wayward daughters, phrases like “I am not like the Leader of the Opposition. I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot…” and ” all through question time those pansies over there want retractions of the things we’ve said about them. They are a bunch of nobodies going nowhere.”"are uttered with abandon.

[Both from the Paul Keating insult archive at http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/

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