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25th January 2024, 07:47 AM
#31
Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
Hi Fouro: I volunteered for the army but didn't pass the medical < perforated ear drums >
obviously I passed the Vindi medical because I was there for my 17th birthday in the winter of 62/63. I emigrated to New Zealand in 66 working for NZ shipping and got called up for Vietnam but missed out again to old, I moved across the Tasman to WA in 68 and 6 months later got called up again, talk about dodging the bullet, I was still to old. I am now 78 and have had to get hearing aids. "Time and Tide"
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26th January 2024, 03:07 AM
#32
Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
HI Mark.
Take a lottery ticket, that might work
Cheers DEs
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27th January 2024, 04:33 AM
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Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
Hi Des; Next week 1st of Feb: Here in WA at least lotto is 200 million. Time and tide.
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27th January 2024, 05:33 AM
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Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
Most of us are now at the point where we may not have the time left to spend all that.
But you could buy a very smart electric buggy to get around the nursing home.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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27th January 2024, 05:59 AM
#35
Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
#34. Appropriate T-Shirts and slogans for that then John would be…
I thought growing old would take longer.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This crap is not what I expected.
My body is a Temple ancient and crumbling probably cursed or haunted.
You are about to exceed the limits of my medications.
Buy the shoes, no point in being the richest one in the cemetery.
Take your pick I can increase the T-Shirts and slogans if you want to change daily .
Cheers JS
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27th January 2024, 06:14 AM
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Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
2 more to make up the seven as know you perspire a lot ,
Scientists say the universe is made up of Protons , Neutrons and Electrons. They forgot to mention Morons.
Today I was a hero I rescued some beer that was trapped in a bottle.
JS
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27th January 2024, 08:31 AM
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Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
#33 Too late already got my name on it,what for don’t know as already have the buggy JS
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28th January 2024, 12:14 AM
#38
Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
John.
Stuff the buggy keep your name on the bottle.
cheers Des
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29th January 2024, 05:16 AM
#39
Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
The pen may be mightier than the sword but the bottle will always be stronger than the buggy


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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1st February 2024, 07:45 AM
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Re: the last association of the Vindicatrix
R 591288 thank you for this reminder of the vindi and sharpness ,,,great memories i was there in 1953,,, BRYAN HART in oz
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