On 7/03/2012 7:51 AM, I'm back on the laptop wrote:
> > wrote in
> :
>
>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:54:02 +0000 (UTC), "I'm back on the laptop"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> A friend of mine is going to hold a 500th birthday party for his
>>> dining table.
>>>
>>> Yes, the table is (technically) 500+ years old. It has been
>>> authenticated to have come from an old English 'manor' and was made
>>> approx 200 years ago. The timber the table is made of has been
>>> examined, and it has been deemed by some tree expert dude that the
>>> timber was approx 300+ years old when it was cut down to make the
>>> table.
>>
>> What a fun excuse to have a few friends over!
>>
>
>
> That it is ....... not many people get a chance to say they've been to a
> 500yo's birthday party.


>
> *Although*, this will be the second 500th+ I've been to :-)
> The first was for the township of Huissen in the Netherlands.
>
> Back then (1991?) I was a member of the Bavaria Bier Parachute Display
> Team. It was the townships birthday, and we were hired to do a jump
> into/over the town. The LZ was a postage stamp sized piece of ground
> bordered by a major freeway on two sides, a swamp and a large lake on the
> others!!
>
> I flew down the Langestraat at about 100' and caused a bit of a stir
> amongst all the coffee/beer drinkers at all outside cafes down below when I
> yelled out for someone to bring me a beer, zipped around the library at the
> end of the street/mall, zoomed across the freeway and did a hook turn into
> the LZ.
>
> *That* was a hoot!! And within about a minute of landing, I had half a
> dozen beers (in big steins) being handed to me :-)
>
Now he's a parachutist and speaks Dutch! What further bullshit does he
have in store for us?

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Krypsis