Paul Piko and Geoff Schaller Hit the UK
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Just a short note to let all newsgroup users that are missing Geoff's
daily postings that he will be back in the saddle later this week when
he returns to Oz.
Like most other readers I have read Geoff's posts and wondered what
type of person this guy is. Well last night a few of us had the
pleasure of meeting him & Paul Piko in the flesh. Instinctively I
knew Paul would be a nice gentle guy but had my reservations about
Geoff. I was absolutely spot on about Paul but was way off the mark
about Geoff. He will probably hate me for writing this but actually
he is really a very friendly person who most people with a sense of
humor would like.
Sorry Geoff if I have blown your bad guy image, but I had to let all
the other readers out there now about the real Geoff. Thanks to Paul
& Geoff for a very enjoyable evening.
Regards to all
John
Vic d'Hoop
>he is really a very friendly person who most people with a sense of
>humor would like.
Gee,
Who would have thought ? Are you sure it isn't just the sentimentality that
normally kicks in when guys go out and have a few pots too many ?
Vic
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Trevor Smith
wrote:
>>He will probably hate me for writing this but actually
>>he is really a very friendly person who most people with a sense of
>>humor would like.
>
>Gee,
>
>Who would have thought ? Are you sure it isn't just the sentimentality that
>normally kicks in when guys go out and have a few pots too many ?
>
>Vic
>
>
No, I was there as well and I can confirm that it was soft drinks and
lemon tea all round - Honest!! (I am not sure what happened later in
the evening)
I had a very pleasant and informative afternoon. many thanks to all
those that were there.
Trevor
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Of course it could have been the wet Welsh weather that dampened his
fire and put him off colour <BG>
John
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:38:59 +0200, "Vic d'Hoop" <nos...@nospam.co.za>
wrote:
>>He will probably hate me for writing this but actually
Graham McKechnie
Don't worry about those guys - they have been fooled.
I see Geoff somewhat regularly and they have just been fooled by the "tea"
he served.
Geoff a nice guy - of course they were kidding - I'm really surprised by
their reaction to that really bad guy PP. How do the Poms get so many things
wrong.
None of them can throw, bat or bowl, nearly as bad as your lot - Oh what a
boring summer this is going to be.
Regards
Graham
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Markus Feser
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That sounds, as if there is a clone of me in Australia... <g>
Phil McGuinness
point.
You can love him or hate him he has put a lot of effort into trying to get
the product positioned in the market place and you cannot hang him for that.
A good old thrashing in the Newsgroup of a relevant topic is not a bad thing
and hopefully eventually gets a result close to the truth.......<G>
Phil McGuinness
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Phil McGuinness
They did manage to get 79 runs in the last innings. Which is better than
the Pakistan side which got 79 and 73 in two innings.
One poor Aussie cricket commentator went to the Toilets and when can back
the English innings was over.
Is there another team they can send over for the rest of the Test
please.......?
Phil McGuinness
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Gary Stark
John Lewis wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Just a short note to let all newsgroup users that are missing Geoff's
> daily postings that he will be back in the saddle later this week when
> he returns to Oz.
Dammit!
You can keep him ...
Honest ....
> Like most other readers I have read Geoff's posts and wondered what
> type of person this guy is. Well last night a few of us had the
> pleasure
Pleasure ??? Hmmmm ... us VOyagers are a wierd race, aren't we?
--
g.
Gary Stark
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Graham McKechnie
Very generous to the Pakis mate - take off about 20 runs each innings and it
would be more to the point. The Poms were absolutely super getting to a
grand total of 79 odd.
Next test Poms v. Pakis - all over in 1 day - all 4 innings
I suppose it happened to the Poms, because of the Qld sun. Very hot if you
aren't at a beach, even hotter when we played the Pakis. You are obviously a
cricket fan Phil.
Graham
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Gary Stark
their reaction to that really bad guy PP. How do the Poms get so many things
wrong.
None of them can throw, bat or bowl, nearly as bad as your lot - Oh what a
boring summer this is going to be.
Dunno ... threee-day test matches leaves more time for the beach.
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blighty in the first instance. If so I don't think he would be
allowed to stay <BG>
John
Paul DB
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Jean-Paul Bleau
It's normal, they are Aussies !!!
All Aussies always smile, laugh and are joking all the time... They are good
guys, it's in their culture.
Or maybe because of the alcool !!! <G>
Jean-Paul Bleau
Ordinateurs Laval
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Dave Francis
No, it's you who have been taken in. We don't actually play - what
d'ya call it? - cricket anymore in the UK. We just send over a few
pensioners and misfits every now and again to draw your attention away
from rugby and, er, tennis and... S**t! It's not working, is it?
Dave Francis
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Fred Killet
what kind of stupid discussion is this? I know Geoff Schaller already for
some time. I met him and Paul Piko last week on Saturday in Germany. I can
insure that both are very friendly and kind gentlemen. They united their
occupation and their hobby in VO. And belive me, they are realy experts!
Have you seen any questions in the newsgroup, which are not answered
immediately unselfishly and competently by them? We can be proud on Geoff,
Paul and some other people, which spent the newsgroup users their time on no
cost basis!
Fred
Gary Stark
Methinx you might need to loosen up a little. John's post was just a "heads up"
to let us know that he and a few others had met with Geoff and Paul over drinks
somewhere in deepest, darkest Britain.
His post was tinged<g> with just a bit of humour and sarcasm, and the responses
have been in a similar vein.
Having said that ...
Fred Killet wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> what kind of stupid discussion is this? I know Geoff Schaller already for
> some time. I met him and Paul Piko last week on Saturday in Germany. I can
> insure that both are very friendly and kind gentlemen. They united their
Yep; this is quite correct.
> occupation and their hobby in VO. And belive me, they are realy experts!
> Have you seen any questions in the newsgroup, which are not answered
> immediately unselfishly and competently by them?
Yep. Many times.
Too many times to recount.
> We can be proud on Geoff,
> Paul and some other people, which spent the newsgroup users their time on no
> cost basis!
This point is true also.
Jean-Marie Berthiaume
I quite understand you are trying to save Geoff's face but we all know he
was at the Gay Games in Sydney. <g>
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Phil McGuinness
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Phil McGuinness
and it would be more to the point. ]
So it was 59 and 53 all out..........
So thats what they actually meant when they got a TON of runs..... [for the
whole match ]
Phil
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Gary Stark
Jean-Marie Berthiaume wrote:
> John
>
> I quite understand you are trying to save Geoff's face but we all know he
> was at the Gay Games in Sydney. <g>
Have you seen Geoff's face ? It's the sort that only a mother could love. <g>
Mike French
> I suppose it happened to the Poms, because of the Qld sun. Very hot if you
> aren't at a beach, even hotter when we played the Pakis.
It wasn't THAT hot up here during those days. If anything was too hot for
them I think it was Matt's bat.
Mike.
Mike French
> Have you seen any questions in the newsgroup, which are not answered
> immediately unselfishly and competently by them?
In Geoff's case, two out of three aint too bad.
You've got to understand one thing about us Aussies. We love having a "dig"
(see, we even have our own vernacular for it). In fact, getting offended by
such banter in considered very bad form and un-Australian.
Ok, so we're a weird lot. When the rest of the world can beat us at cricket,
football (not the pommy kind), tennis, swimming etc. then, and only then,
are you allowed to comment.
Unless of course your just getting into the spirit, in which case, sledge
away!
Mike.
Mike French
> was at the Gay Games in Sydney. <g>
Was that him on the "bears" float?
Mike.
Unknown
>You've got to understand one thing about us Aussies. We love having a "dig"
>(see, we even have our own vernacular for it). In fact, getting offended by
>such banter in considered very bad form and un-Australian.
>
>Ok, so we're a weird lot. When the rest of the world can beat us at cricket,
>football (not the pommy kind), tennis, swimming etc. then, and only then,
>are you allowed to comment.
I was tempted to write to Fred, to tell him that all Australian men
are born with two dicks, because they can't be that silly playing with
one. But, I chickened out, because of all the hate mail I would start
getting <G>
I have worked with Ozzies abroad, and I really enjoyed their company.
One, Terry Flynn from Esperance changed my vocabulary for life. Sadly
he's gone North now and is sadly missed.
G'day you B*****ds
John
Phil McGuinness
Esperance.. now that is a place a lot of Aussies have not been and a great
getway.
Where it is... ? Ok it is on the bottom / southern side of Western
Australia in Great Australian Bite and the only thing more southerly than it
is the South Pole.
For those that remember the Sky Lab space station of about 18 years ago or
so....Esperance is its resting spot. When it came crashing to earth the
pieces left are in the museum there.
This is place has the most amazing beaches and they names like 40 mile beach
and 30 mile beach and 20 mile beach and they are definitely that long and
have beautiful white sand and really deep blue ocean. The water is
absolutely freezing compared to air temperature.
This is the first place in Australia I ever saw Wind Farms for generating
power and I was told Esperance is the second windiest place in Australia.
The main reason is the air from the flat desert areas seems to move in and
out from the cost via this zone.
There are an group islands off the coast which I visited one day which have
Whales and Seals and heaps of wild birds. It is almost a predator free
zone... On the beaches there was this stuff that reminded me of the stuff
in Teddy bears of old. You now the brown filling. The beaches here had long
mounds of this material and I found out it is dried out KRILL that the
whales eat. It is blown by the wind ashore and deposited
The problem for Esperance is it remoteness and it say 1500 kilometres to
Perth and 3500 kilometres to Sydney.
The mention of its name brought back some great memories of the days we were
there and it was a State record of 50 degrees centigrade.
Damn that is hot..
I now return you to you normal program............
Phil McGuinness
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Gary Stark
> Where it is... ? Ok it is on the bottom / southern side of Western
> Australia in Great Australian Bite and the only thing more southerly than it
Is that anywhere near the Great Australian Bight?
> This is the first place in Australia I ever saw Wind Farms for generating
> power and I was told Esperance is the second windiest place in Australia.
The windiest place being Geoff's office, of course. :)
Phil McGuinness
That is actually the Australian Taxation Office..
I had the spell checker on for this an it changed my wording...bugger....<G>
snip[ The windiest place being Geoff's office, of course. :]
This is the rumour I heard as well.
Now there were about 12 Wind generators at Esperance so....
there must be about 16 near Geoffs place.. and 4 more at the office.
Phil McGuinness
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Marc Verkade
Any hostels in the neighbourhood?
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Phil McGuinness
Your in the Netherlands ....
snip[ Any hostels in the neighbourhood? ]
It is reasonably commercial town now and certainly not the Outback but just
isolated and good distance via road.
I found accommodation quite expensive and very good quality.
Not that far from Esperance is town called ALBANY. and this was a major
Whaling town.
When Whaling was abandon in around say even as late as 1978 they turned the
whaling station into a museum and they dragged the last whaling ship up onto
dry land and it is part of the museum.
Ironically the area makes more money from Whale watching these days than the
height of the whaling era.
This stretch of coast is beautiful. I do not know the diving market there
unfortunately.
Phil
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Mike Pitcher
and we had done a deal ... we would not mention Northern Hemisphere
rugby (NZ, Oz and SA beaten by England, Ireland and France on the same
day) if they would spare our English blushes about the warm up for the
test series that we just played in Brisbane.
So we took them to a small English pub ... the way you do ... and
there were two Irish supporters still revelling 24 hours later in
their 19-6 victory.
So Nasser Hussain got the weather forecast wrong ... In England we can
rely on losing at least one day to rain in a November test match.
Mike
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Denis Mitrofanov
> about Geoff. He will probably hate me for writing this but actually
> he is really a very friendly person who most people with a sense of
> humor would like.
I don't even doubt that. But don't try to tell him about code optimization
and disassembling! <vbg>
Denis
Mike French
> This is place has the most amazing beaches and they names like 40 mile
beach
> and 30 mile beach and 20 mile beach and they are definitely that long and
> have beautiful white sand and really deep blue ocean.
When I was working in Barbados I gave a coffee table book on Oz as a gift to
the company I was working for. One of the locals was browsing through it and
he came and asked me (pointing to a picture) "Why do they call this place 70
Mile Beach?"
Since 70 miles was roughly twice the circumference of his entire country he
was having a little trouble picturing a beach that long.
I didn't have the heart to tell him about 140 Mile Beach.
Mike.
Mike French
> Sounds like a nice diving spot!
As a general rule of thumb in Oz, if there are lots of seals and whales, you
do not want to dive there. Following the seals are usually the white
pointers and other sharks and you will look a lot like a seal when dressed
in your wetsuit.
I know Phil said no predators but I'm guessing that applies only to the
land.
You also do not swim in the rivers up north, though there are a lot fewer
sharks up there. The crocs eat them you see.
Mike.
Unknown
You description matches the one Terry gave me, if anything he made it
sound even better. God how that guy could make me laugh. I would
give anything to see him again, but I guess that will have to be in
the next life.
John
Mark Chimes
Now I understand where the saying, "Life's a beach" came from. <bg>
cheers,
Mark
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Phil McGuinness
When your drive across the Nullabor Plains there is one stretch of road that
is 132 miles without a turn or elevation change for the entire distance..
So that is 132 miles absolutely dead straight and then it ends at the Great
Australia Bight and then you have 200-300 feet cliffs for a 600 kilometres
coast line.
Now that is the wide open spaces.
Phil
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Geoff Schaller
...and it was great to catch up with some new faces. As you can tell by the
Aussie responses, it can get a bit boring around here after a while <g>. And
as for comments about attendances at the "Gay Games" (whilst I was 17,000km
away...), seems that some of these gentlemen seem to know a lot about it?
Well I hope we can all meet again one day and I hope you guys (and the one
gal... Bev) can meet yourselves more often.
Happy coding!
Geoff
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> Hi:
>
> Just a short note to let all newsgroup users that are missing Geoff's
> daily postings that he will be back in the saddle later this week when
> he returns to Oz.
>
> Like most other readers I have read Geoff's posts and wondered what
> type of person this guy is. Well last night a few of us had the
> pleasure of meeting him & Paul Piko in the flesh. Instinctively I
> knew Paul would be a nice gentle guy but had my reservations about
> Geoff. I was absolutely spot on about Paul but was way off the mark
> about Geoff. He will probably hate me for writing this but actually
> he is really a very friendly person who most people with a sense of
> humor would like.
>
Phil McGuinness
I never believed it myself.......
but between you and me did you win any medals ? <G>
Phil McGuinness
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Gary Stark
Phil McGuinness wrote:
> snip[ And as for comments about attendances at the "Gay Games" ]
>
> I never believed it myself.......
>
> but between you and me did you win any medals ? <G>
They're those dangly bits hanging off Geoff ....
>
> "Geoff Schaller" <geof...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Hi John,
> >
> > ...and it was great to catch up with some new faces. As you can tell by
> the
> > Aussie responses, it can get a bit boring around here after a while <g>.
> And
> > as for comments about attendances at the "Gay Games" (whilst I was
> 17,000km
> > away...), seems that some of these gentlemen seem to know a lot about it?
--
Unknown
Pleased to learn that you and Paul made it back back safe & sound. We
really must thank you both for the stirling effort to drive all that
way to meet a few faces on a miserable wet November evening. Special
thanks to Paul for organising it all and getting us of our butts, it
was well worth it.
I think I got flashed by a speed camera on the way home. They are
doing extensive construction on the Heads of the Valleys road and have
a temporary 40 mph restriction with speed camera warnings. It was
past 10pm and the road was empty and I was doing 60 mph; bugger!
Judging by the length of this thread you got plenty of fans out there,
and only Fred Killet had something good to say about you <BG>
Regards
John
FDW
Good to see you made it home, greating from Holland.
Frans
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Graham McKechnie
> When your drive across the Nullabor Plains there is one stretch of road
that
> is 132 miles without a turn or elevation change for the entire distance..
So is that when the Beamer technology clicks in and limits your speed?
You could go right off the dial there.
Graham
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Jean-Marie Berthiaume
I was wrong. I understand now that you went 17 000 km. to make sure that no one
would see you at the Gay Games. (Wasn't there some in England ? <g>)
And yes I know about it. The next one will be here in Montréal in 2006 and we
are quite happy about it. Lots of money with it.
Geoff Schaller a écrit :
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Geoff Schaller
we
> are quite happy about it. Lots of money with it.
...and what else? <g>
Yes, well.... and you can keep it! They lost money in Australia, including
some tax payer funds, and someone will tell me what the benefits are one
day. But remember that it was Uncle Phil and Uncle Gary who raised the
prospect of interest in gay gaming... not me. These two gents hail from
Sydney town... the home of the gay games. I'm from Melbourne, a safe 900km
distant.
Adriano Rui Gominho
I didn't know you had camels down there!!! <g>
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Phil McGuinness
gaming. ]
The original topic was not raised by me.. but a comment on your comment
about it..
Phil
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Phil McGuinness
They even have organised races in Alice Springs and NT.
In fact when you go on some treks it is all on Camel back.
During the mid 1800's they found Camels were the best way to travel the
desert areas and horses as an introduced species were prone to disease and
dehydration. Also they made good Wives !<G>
Some of the camels escaped (probable to escape their new husbands...) and
there you have it... this is how the Northern Territory VO user group was
formed.
So when you order the Australia VO2.7 version Geoff may ask, ONE HUMP or
TWO.......
Phil McGuinness
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Geoff Schaller
> desert areas and horses as an introduced species were prone to disease and
> dehydration. Also they made good Wives !<G>
Phil, you don't have to share your strange marital practices with the NG.
You are giving Australians a bad name <g>.
Gary Stark
You are giving Australians a bad name <g>.
Are giving ???
Surely this is already a fait accomplis?
Gary Stark
Adriano Rui Gominho wrote:
> Phil,
>
> I didn't know you had camels down there!!! <g>
>
> http://www.alisonwright.com/images/photo_gallery_images/18_australia/Australia4.jpg
You've obviously not met Phil's partner, Geoff. :)
Phil McGuinness
We know how camels got down there....
what we dont know is how WOMBATS and KANGAROOS got down there.
Phil McGuinness
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Stephane Hebert
> We know how camels got down there....
>
> what we dont know is how WOMBATS and KANGAROOS got down there.
Ever wondered where Djeff hides ?
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Steph
Phil McGuinness
but I always knew he is a WOMBAT anyway...
Phil McGuinness
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Geoff Schaller
"mother-in-law" <g>
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Phil McGuinness
and the kids are 'rug rats'........ <G>
Phil McGuinness
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"Geoff Schaller" <geof...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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Stephane Hebert
> ...and so are you now a frequenter of the SDK Inn? <g>
I'll meet you at the bar <g>
Seriously though, I hope I get the chance some day to meet some of you guys.
Steph
Geoff Schaller
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