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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1380
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 01:42 am: |   |
Europe had a close escape from a huge internal war!
The Swiss army is not renowned for its aggressive expeditionary adventures - but it does appear to have accidentally invaded Liechtenstein.
According to the Swiss daily Blick, around 170 infantry soldiers from the famously neutral country wandered more than a mile across the unmarked border with the tiny principality.
The incident happened yesterday morning and the Swiss troops turned back - probably slightly sheepishly - after they realised their mistake.
A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story, but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion, the Associated Press reported.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2025383,00.html?NewTItle
(You'll need to copy/paste the link: it didn't work like usual for some reason, so I disabled the automatical activation of URLs) |
Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
669
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 06:34 am: | |
The Liechtensteinis should be full of righteous indignation. The Mouse that Roared?
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3534
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 09:06 pm: | |
Harry's Link
Links will have issues on this board if they contain commas. If you put a \ in front of each comma, it usually works (though I use the hyperlink creator in the message window, not just the site link).
Mindsight Moderator and ex-PA author
Aston's Blog |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2231
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 03:52 am: | |
From what I've observed the Swiss army can handle just about anything. After all, their primary weapon has a blade for every situation.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com
http://theunrealmccoy.blogspot.com |
Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1381
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 11:45 am: | |
Thanks for the info Todd.
Anyway, Liechtenstein decided not to retaliate Swistserland, and take away their Swiss army knives.
The world escaped from WWIII |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1891
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 09:06 pm: | |
Thank God! Where would the world be without Swiss cheese?
http://www.dunganbooks.com/such.htm |
Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
255
Registered: 07-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 08:31 am: | |
Now there was inspired marketing, let's sell them 3/4 of the cheese but charge them just as much.
Kevin |
Joyce Scarbrough
Unity Member
Post Number:
1032
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 12:17 pm: | |
Kevin, who drew that beautiful picture?
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
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Senior Editor
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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
256
Registered: 07-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 08:41 am: | |
Photo Adobe photo shop. It's a pretty old program but I love playing with it. You can tweak photos just about anyway you want and have patiece for. This one I just zoomed in for the face (She was eating breakfast and had that look on her face) and then converted the photo to a sketch.
Mothers day for my mommy this year is gonig to be a larger collage of photos of the kids done like that nicely framed.
One of the coolest effects is I can do a tracing of a photo where it finds the lines in the photo then changes them to a neon look.
Kevin |
Joyce Scarbrough
Unity Member
Post Number:
1034
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 12:34 pm: | |
Oh, wow. I looked at some of the effects in Photo Shop one time, but I didn't see that one. Yours would look gorgeous framed as an 11 X 14!
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapters: http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog: http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztz5e3XZeo
Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2610
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 01:42 pm: | |
"Yours would look gorgeous framed as an 11 X 14!"
Just think, JT, if you had it, you could put it up next to the
20x24 photo you have of me in your bedroom! |
Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
257
Registered: 07-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 06:18 pm: | |
Is that the one covering the dart board? |
Joyce Scarbrough
Unity Member
Post Number:
1036
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 02:34 pm: | |
Bill is delusional. I have a 36 X 24 framed print of Mickey Mantle at the plate in Yankee stadium hanging in my bedroom. (no joke) Bill's picture is in the garage next to the pesticide.
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapters: http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog: http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztz5e3XZeo
Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2618
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 07:55 pm: | |
Joyce, I don't mean that old picture out in the garage. I'm talking
about the one of me at the beach in a thong. You know, the one hanging over your bed. Jeeze, you have a poor memory. |
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