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Great pics by everyone! Fender Fanatic in Rocking Action! (looks like you were doing a little head bangin' there!) Ceri's Guns -N- Roses, Strato's pics of his trip to see the Giants (boo, hiss, boo! Diamondbacks fan here!).

Strato, if you could sit in the giant glove and get your picture taken, that would be awesome!

Snowy! Great pics of the castle. I love that place.

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Hey Snowy,

Beautiful pics! Your favorite view of the castle is mine also. I visited in '01, hoping to go back some day.


Cool twostar, I hope you make it back soon. It's quite a sight, especially at night. The light show is pretty cool, as is Edinburgh Castle.


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twostars8688 wrote:
Hey Snowy,

Beautiful pics! Your favorite view of the castle is mine also. I visited in '01, hoping to go back some day.


Cool twostar, I hope you make it back soon. It's quite a sight, especially at night. The light show is pretty cool, as is Edinburgh Castle.


Yeah, at night they are both great. I also went to the Tattoo at Edinburgh! That was truly incredible!

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The tattoo is something special Bill, I've been a few times. I don't know
what it is about pipe bands, it send shivers up and down my spine. Maybe the Celt in me :lol:


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Ceri wrote:
Hey Snowy: great pics, man! Stirling's fab, and just what a Scottish castle is meant to look like. So glad you skipped the statue of Mel Gibson in a kilt from further down, though! And not because I'm English: my paternal grandfather was a Glaswegian docker...

Something about the Forum T-shirt is just making us reach for the shades, isn't it...?

8) - C


I know what you mean about the braveheart thing Ceri, as you're no doubt aware there are a lot of historical inaccuracies in the movie. But hey! don't let facts get in the way of a box office hit :roll:


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I know what you mean about the braveheart thing Ceri, as you're no doubt aware there are a lot of historical inaccuracies in the movie. But hey! don't let facts get in the way of a box office hit :roll:


I wasn't even thinking about the movie. It's just that statue - so tacky!

BTW, Snowy, I wasn't trying to set you a tiresome chore over the Pineapple House. But if you felt like it anyway it would make a fantastic picture: nobody will have ever seen anything like that before! I know that the garden side (the best looking side) is open to the public without a charge or anything; just roll up.

Or just a T-shirt photo tour of Scottish castles. You've so many of the best ones in the world, after all!

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Strato, if you could sit in the giant glove and get your picture taken, that would be awesome!


They have these big guys wearing windbreakers that frown on that kind of thing.


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Strato, if you could sit in the giant glove and get your picture taken, that would be awesome!


They have these big guys wearing windbreakers that frown on that kind of thing.


Haha, yeah, I was afraid of that. Those guys have absolutely no sense of humor!

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OK, more pics.

The point of this first one is to kinda suck up to our American friends. There's me with my black Strat in the naval city of Plymouth in the south west of England. Round to the left out of shot is the spot where the Pilgrim Fathers boarded the Mayflower in 1620 to sail to the New World. They felt so well treated by the local population of Plymouth that when they disembarked on the other side they named it - Plymouth. The idea I'm trying to sell you here is that my Strat has finally made the long spiritual journey home...:
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Next, this little paper shop is supposedly on the very spot where the Mayflower tied up - the edge of the harbor has moved a few yards. The news is... that the Mayflower has sailed. (They don't really have their finger on the pulse hereabouts...):
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The bad news is that these days the locals are less interested in ancient sailing ships than in this particular product. In tribute to Joe Bonamassa I bought several bottles of Plymouth Sloe Gin:
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Next, me in T-shirt in front of Plymouth Sound, the entrance to the bay and deepwater harbor. In the background you can see military ships...:
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One of those ships was an aircraft carrier that we watched steaming towards land for three quarters of an hour. I was hoping that it would turn out to be a visiting American carrier (which come here a lot) because I could photograph it as it passed in the channel right below where I'm standing and then I could make a crack about the US Navy coming to try and recapture my Strat:
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However, as the sun went down we eventually realised it had stopped and I guess it parked to wait and enter port in the morning. Englarged, it looks more like one of ours I think, anyway. We have ex-navy people amongst us - anyone able to identify what kind of ship this is?:
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Ceri wrote:
OK, more pics.

The point of this first one is to kinda suck up to our American friends. There's me with my black Strat in the naval city of Plymouth in the south west of England. Round to the left out of shot is the spot where the Pilgrim Fathers boarded the Mayflower in 1620 to sail to the New World. They felt so well treated by the local population of Plymouth that when they disembarked on the other side they named it - Plymouth. The idea I'm trying to sell you here is that my Strat has finally made the long spiritual journey home...:
Image

Next, this little paper shop is supposedly on the very spot where the Mayflower tied up - the edge of the harbor has moved a few yards. The news is... that the Mayflower has sailed. (They don't really have their finger on the pulse hereabouts...):
Image

The bad news is that these days the locals are less interested in ancient sailing ships than in this particular product. In tribute to Joe Bonamassa I bought several bottles of Plymouth Sloe Gin:
Image

Next, me in T-shirt in front of Plymouth Sound, the entrance to the bay and deepwater harbor. In the background you can see military ships...:
Image

One of those ships was an aircraft carrier that we watched steaming towards land for three quarters of an hour. I was hoping that it would turn out to be a visiting American carrier (which come here a lot) because I could photograph it as it passed in the channel right below where I'm standing and then I could make a crack about the US Navy coming to try and recapture my Strat:
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However, as the sun went down we eventually realised it had stopped and I guess it parked to wait and enter port in the morning. Englarged, it looks more like one of ours I think, anyway. We have ex-navy people amongst us - anyone able to identify what kind of ship this is?:
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Cheers - C


Oh....using landmarks to win the contest, I see. I'm going to have to take a pic near the Golden Gate Bridge or something. That is......unless Mick Jagger comes through for me, wearing the same T-shirt, the two of us together......

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Great pix Ceri, well done. I'm sure some of the ex navy dudes in here can identify the ship, looks like some kind of carrier type to me. What would I know.. :lol:


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Syeklops wrote:
Oh....using landmarks to win the contest, I see. I'm going to have to take a pic near the Golden Gate Bridge or something. That is......unless Mick Jagger comes through for me, wearing the same T-shirt, the two of us together......


Right back at the beginning of this thread Brad wrote:
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Photos taken in exotic locations and strange lands are sure to do extremely well in this contest, too!

Now I can't begin to claim those are exotic locations. But it certainly is a strange land!

On the Jagger thing: I keep telling you, Mick generally spends the weekends with me. He keeps his phone switched off at those times, but if you ring on the usual number after eight you'll get him. Keith was disappointed you don't like his Tele, though. He said not to bother calling him (and he'll probably be up a coconut tree in any case and not able to come to the phone).

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Keith Richards climbing coconut tree's? Nahhhhh :lol:


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Ceri wrote:
OK, more pics.

...

However, as the sun went down we eventually realised it had stopped and I guess it parked to wait and enter port in the morning. Englarged, it looks more like one of ours I think, anyway. We have ex-navy people amongst us - anyone able to identify what kind of ship this is?:
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Very nice shots.

It appears to be an Invincible class carrier - see http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/invincible/index.html

Gil 8)

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It appears to be an Invincible class carrier - see http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/invincible/index.html

Gil 8)


Magnificent - I am SO impressed!

We all know that Forum Members can identify the year and model of a Fender guitar from the haziest information. And now aircraft carriers, too!

I award you an extra three "cool" emoticons: 8) 8) 8)

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