what are those special pies Jackie makes?Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerH
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what are those special pies Jackie makes?Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerH
Bob...Don't get too morbid It will only make him feel more "princessey" when he gets back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob V
I wonder if he's been summoned to the Captains table yet??....or will it be a case of "not with those knees":eek:
Lasse gets loads of "glamour" on his thread......Any body got anything suitable to put on here? perhaps draped over the hood of a Lexus, or maybe under the hood if he gets back and the battery is flat!!
Not sure if he is smiling or not in this picture Ron this could be the launching for the 1969 THAMES race.Attachment 407174 his old friend Don Ross won with this outfit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
It is rare to see Jackie smile unless....Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
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Thank God that we will have Jackie back sometime this week. This thread along with all the others on Outboard and Racing History have slipped into a coma since Jackie departed. I hate to say that his spark keeps everything alive here, but I don't know any other way to explain it. Even Lassie Strom's OMC thread is barely creeping along. If it weren't for his gymnast, Miss Paula, his thread would be in a dead heat with "Tricks." I have to say that very few people have the wit and way with words that Jackie has. Whether it is talking world politics, economic issues, the colossal failure of the Rotary, debating black power (Merc) versus white power (OMC) with Lassie, arguing who is older or better looking with Gene or scolding Willabee for everything he ever successfully accomplished at Mercury Racing, he keeps things going here. I, for one, will be glad to see him return...:thumbsup:
Careful what you wish for Bob——- I’m back! Finally got the old IPAD PRO fired up, albeit at Barcelona airport. It’s for free——— none of that fifty dollars a day Celebrity charge for a wi-fi connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob V
i should FECKIN cocoa !!! You could have it for the whole ten day cruise at a special one off price of three hundred dollars———— now, if that’s not taking the piss ——— ???? That’s over double my annual charge for my mobile——- TV ——— Wi- fi connection.
Enough of all this, glad to see you kept the old “Tricks” thread alive—— will get around to answering everyone once I’m home (( another four or five hours ).
Been “WORKSHOP SICK” for the last four days——— cruising’s ok if your old, hungry, desperate to meet an old bird who wants one last fling before popping her clogs. Or, if you’re feeling suicidal——- you could simply jump off the back after a couple of cocktails and wave goodbye to the cruel world !
By the cringe Bob, I have to tell you—— I’m a slim and fit healthy person compared to the two thousand odd folk on board the ship——— they came in three sizes——- FAT—— FECKIN FAT—— AND OBESE !
They opened the boarding gate for EASY JET, I gotta go.
Umm..by way of welcoming you back, that desperate old bird you mention I don't suppose you got her phone number did you, just thinking you could pass it on just fer research like ...:rolleyes:
Bums, brassieres and cammie knickers———- now noon and they just announced our flight is delayed by six hours.
No such thing as a free meal or a cheap flight——— these bloody cut price flights, that charge you to fart and a hundred quid excess for-two ounces over the 20K limit——— water costs thirty dollars a gallon and a seat next to your spouse twenty quid. Speedy booking really turns to worms when the FECKIN aircraft is six hours overdue and no guarantee it’ll even turn up at all.
Im travelling BA or AA next time——- Mickey Finn and Ryan Air and Easy Jet can go buck a fuffallo—— I’m done giving them my money. It’s cheaper to fly first class than pay for all the excesses and mistakes these jokers create.
You may gather I’m a tad pissed off at the minute———don’t be surprised if you hear Ive been put in the cooler for trashing an Easy Jet 380 .
just come over the tannoy our plane has not yet left Gatwick———- that’s probably because the bloody thing has been impounded by abbos in wogga wogga for non payment of landing fees and isn’t even arrived in Gatwick.
wogga wogga is spelt Wagga
Eees not back in Blighty yet and he's started on the the Irish and the Aussies.......
Never mind it's the BIIIIG wedding on Saturday, obviously J.W's rushing back so's not to miss any detail of that one..........
Begging your Pudding Pilgrim——— it’s one of those places I’ve only heard about in hushed tones like “Ammityville” and Timbuctoo”—— Pussygalore and Enoughalready !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Somebody going to the sacrificial alter then Phill ?Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Ill have you know I once knew a very nice Irish chap—— don’t really know many Aussies,
C’mon Johnno——- I like Rotors——— But Then again I like teradactials and brontersauruses——- anybody brandishing the wankel cudgel these days ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
Dont you know that before you “RELEASE” anything Pilgrim————- you have to capture it first. In over a 100 years nobody ever caught a rotary !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Got back home finally just gone seven——- message on the answerphone——- my old friend BILL MOULLAND died. He was a legend in the wood turning world——- he could take a chunk of timber, stick it in the lathe, create a masterpiece! Lathe, chisel and wood became as one——- he could make a wood lathe talk. Taught me everything I know about wood turning, but I could never be the master of the craft the way he was.
That just about put the lid on a piss poor day——— not many of us left anymore——- and we’re getting scarce !
Better knock out the few ideas I got while the goings good——- just never know who’s going to cop their clogs next !
Meant to answer all your posts and get things flowing, but going to have to call it a day, it’s all gone a bit flat——- let’s see what tomorrow brings.
Welcome Home
Perhaps when you recover you can pump some adrenaline into this site and get the heart beating again. It has been a long and boring ten days since you departed.
You're right Jackie: They were so damn fast nobody could catch them; not even your 450 HP Cosworth.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Did I hear Yamaha bought Merc and told them not have 2 strokes or engines as big as theirs?
I guess the 425hp yam makes thats true?
Whoa there Johnno———— Cosworth was long gone and in a retirement home long before the rotories came along.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
Having said that John—— I seem to remember the rotories all had” sit up and beg” tunnels——- wasn’t one of them an old Scottie? Maybe I’m just getting old and forgetful!
Needed a big hit when I got home last night——- my posh whisky bottle was empty——- had to settle for a Jack Daniels, it hit the spot, but didn’t have quite the same “PNACHE”.
Jesus Wept Pilgrim——- you’re forever “HEARING THINGS”——— that selective hearing of yours will one day give you a headache or a tumour, but you do get the Kewpie Doll for the biggest load of bollocks in today’s paper !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Betcha a pound to a pincha won’t be long before we see a1,000 HP “OUTBOARD”———- Kamatsu are making a special all electric fork lift as a lifting aid (least, that’s what I hear).
you do know there are Yam parts in some Mercs and vice versa for engines below v6 and as Lars pointed out yam v6 4stroke black painted with Merc decals a few years ago.
Yam now have the highest HP engine and the heaviest
OK Pilgrim——- sounds impressive—— but I’m a reform ! Turned to religion years ago, then gave it up for lent and somehow never went back——- guess I’m just a lost soul.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Anyway, what’s all this got to do with the price of a gallon of electric gas at my local Shell station ?
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Got something for you pilgrim——— belongs to a Russian oligarch ——- cost four hundred million and is in the dock at Cartegena for repairs ! You got any ideas ?
it will get noticed, also running for the ugliest yacht every made
Yam just dropped a 425HP v8 on the market, thats what I was on about.
First time in over 40 years a Merc wasnt the biggest outboard on the market( with a vertical crank that is)
Me myself don’t really see what this is all about Pilgrim——— forty years ago, OMC were claiming 450 hp from three and a half litres——— then four litres and secret sh-t horsepower——- then 450 from unmeasurable rotors———-So what’s the big deal ?———isn’t there a socking great big “CADDIE”truck engine out there pulling some 700 HP?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Why shout about something that was around forty odd years ago, except with more Gee-Gees ?
And they said I- was bending the rules with the little old Cossie.
Ah well—— as they say in Southwater——-Sh-t happens !
Yep, the computer is on, coffee cup is full and Jackie is back....Life is good...:thumbsup:
For the life in me, I can live see no good reason for a 300 hp 4:6 litre “R” VERADO” engine unless it’s given to some
Teaguey Geeko whizz kid to push the parameters and crank up the gee-gee’s to around 500+ which is well within the 125 hp per litre one could expect from a half tidy respectable motor.
Caldwell have been claiming well over that for the last two years ( 450 from three litres) .
Why would any sane company come up with a “detuned overweight lard arsed , look a like a prawn clampon” ? I must have missed something!
I have championed Mercury for over 50 years against all comers, through good and bad times, but I have to admit that this current effort is not pretty—- not ugly——- but generally I’d have to settle for “PRETTY UGLY”———not quite as bad as Pruett would have called it———-stack of assholes on a mud fence !
Just asking WHY ?
the kids from the transformer generation are now buying boats, BRP was onto it first
Hence the look.
Chyrsler was just ahead of its time as was the rotary.
Are the designers of “outboards” ALL lemmings?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Giggling drunken prawns seem to be the only way to go———- BRP, YAM, RUDES,MERCURY——- they’ve all got that “hey, look at me ma, pissed as a fart look” puking over the transom !
Now. “Way ahead of its time” is a well worn phrase—— often used as the excuse when the product never quite made it———- EDSEL and the DE LOREAN being prime examples.
Thats my point, the designers are saying the transformer generation are buying our engines so thats how we design them.
the CRT engine is for us old timers that grew up with meccano and Scalextrix
( today Meccano stuff looks like a transformer/ outboard engine)
They said the same thing about condoms Pilgrim——- Cant Believe the “Transformer Generations” prefer UGLY !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Take a look at “STAR WARS” or Thunderbirds——- kids programs—— right. Everything with a motor in it——- car, bike, plane, rocket ship or submarine has lines, grace and flair———— FECKIN bag of fish-n-Chips has more “OOMPH” than today’s big “OUTBOARDS”
star wars is 100% transformer design, thunderbirds was 1965, tower of power stuff and v4 Evinrudes but they went square edges in 69, Merc designs stood still till 76 and then the V6, square edges, then an alien and now transformer.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Yes, but with style and panache, and a touch of imagination———- designers had flair and a free hand——— today’s designers are hogtied with sh-t for brains————- how else can you describe the drunken giggling prawn syndrome ?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Breast have gone the opposite way, pointy and aerodynamic to big and round nowQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Jane Russell to stormy daniels, your opinion above is correct for this..lol
Stormy Daniels’ tits are kinda like the new 425 Yamaha - F-ing HUGE, but that’s about all they have going for them!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Jackie.....Bottom line is that we were all spoiled by the "symmetrically perfect" design of the inline 6 and nothing will ever look quite as right is the tower of power. Powerabout is spot on that these engines today look like something out of a transformer movie and that is why the transformer generation is laying out exorbitant amount of money to have them. They are butt ugly, but nevertheless, they are selling. Myself, I will always be stuck in the BP, Super BP, Twister 1, Twister 2 generation.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Flying High Gene Lanham StyleAttachment 407869
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Can You Hear Me Now..?
and Jane RussellQuote:
Originally Posted by Bob V
Sod my old britches but you really are much older than me——— Jane Russell——- OUTLAW——- the roll in the hay that never was ?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Monroe ——- now that was more my line of country——— mammary glands to die for !
I'm not older than you, all her movies in the 50's and 60's I was born in the 60's, Monroe died 62, all before my time.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Elle MacPherson is my time
Sorry Pilgrim , who the hell is Elle McPherson ? Must be way after my time !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Sounds like a Scottish Nanny!