LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 But I bet 99% of you couldn't confidently stick a pin within a 1,000 miles of where Gallipoli is.(HINT: It may sound Italian, but it isn't...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmooples Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Galipoli is in Turkey or to be more precise. the European part of Turkey It's also one of my favorite films ^v^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coby Foden Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Google knows everything. :matte-motes-big-grin: http://publicholidays.com.au/anzac-day/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Schmooples wrote: Galipoli is in Turkey or to be more precise. the European part of Turkey It's also one of my favorite films ^v^ You may be one of the 1%. You may not. You may not be able to locate Turkey on an atlas. Most here wouldn't. [star Wars is one of my favourite movies, but I still couldn't locate Tatooine using the Hubble.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli May Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 *makes best guess, knowing it's somewhere in Turkey. Checks map scale to actual location* Within 300 miles; is there a prize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Kelli May wrote: *makes best guess, knowing it's somewhere in Turkey. Checks map scale to actual location* Within 300 miles; is there a prize? The prize is knowing that you are one of the 1%. Or rather, realising that you are not one of the 99%. [Note that Athens (Greece) Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Bucharest (Romania) are all also within 300 miles of Gallipoli; maybe the "close enough" attitude contributed to the failure of the campaign.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli May Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I think it's also possible, given Turkey's size and Gallipoli's position, to be in Turkey and still not be within 1000 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Recently read a book by an Australian author, mentioned Anzac cookies, so I looked it up. Never heard odmit before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Pamela Galli wrote: Recently read a book by an Australian author, mentioned Anzac cookies, so I looked it up. Never heard odmit before then. Hmm, if you had chosen Polly as your avatar's first name, Pam, then you would have been Galli, Polly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Kelli May wrote: I think it's also possible, given Turkey's size and Gallipoli's position, to be in Turkey and still not be within 1000 miles. To give our American cousins an idea of scale, Turkey is even bigger than Texas! [it reminds me of when I visited a farm in Texas; the rancher boasted to me that he could drive all day and still not leave his land; I replied that unfortunately I had a car like that, too.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muletta Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 It is ANZAC Day tomorrow, April the 25th...not today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Muletta wrote: It is ANZAC Day tomorrow, April the 25th...not today. And what do you think the day and date is at this very moment in Australia and New Zealand? [The blinkered small-minded vision of forumites never fails to surprise me.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muletta Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 LlewLlwyd wrote: Muletta wrote: It is ANZAC Day tomorrow, April the 25th...not today. And what do you think the day and date is at this very moment in Australia and New Zealand? [The blinkered small-minded vision of forumites never fails to surprise me.] In Australia and New Zealand, it is already April the 25th now...I know. I just wanted to make you a bit confused, only for a split-second. If I succeded, you would probably never admit. But at least I did surprise you, I see.... :matte-motes-wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Muletta wrote: LlewLlwyd wrote: Muletta wrote: It is ANZAC Day tomorrow, April the 25th...not today. And what do you think the day and date is at this very moment in Australia and New Zealand? [The blinkered small-minded vision of forumites never fails to surprise me.] In Australia and New Zealand, it is already April the 25th now...I know. I just wanted to make you a bit confused, only for a split-second. If I succeded, you would probably never admit. But at least I did surprise you, I see.... :matte-motes-wink: I am unsurprised at how stupid forumites are; what astonishes me is their preparedness and propensity to demonstrate it in public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muletta Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 LlewLlwyd wrote: I am unsurprised at how stupid forumites are; what astonishes me is their preparedness and propensity to demonstrate it in public. Well, to still be able to feel astonished is not a bad thing...It means, that you learn all the time. First step of being more wise is, to be astonished :matte-motes-smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LlewLlwyd Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 I am learning all the time. The problem is that I learn absolutely nothing useful here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muletta Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 LlewLlwyd wrote: I am learning all the time. The problem is that I learn absolutely nothing useful here. Perhaps I can comfort you, that you are not completely wasting your time here, even if you do not learn anything. For example, you often make me laugh and to remember Muppet Show, with the two elderly men, who are sitting on the balcony during the show. And today you have tought us about ANZAC Day...you are a huge gain for this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanBenjammin Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Poppies for everyone! In Europe they're representative of Armstice Day, but they're our ANZAC day symbol. 100 years, and no Gallipoli veterans left alive. "Lest we Forget" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Like Scmooples, I only know it from the movie with the very young Mel Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 LlewLlwyd wrote: Schmooples wrote: Galipoli is in Turkey or to be more precise. the European part of Turkey It's also one of my favorite films ^v^ You may be one of the 1%. You may not. You may not be able to locate Turkey on an atlas. Most here wouldn't. /facepalms I thought it was on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. /facepalms again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 LlewLlwyd wrote: Kelli May wrote: I think it's also possible, given Turkey's size and Gallipoli's position, to be in Turkey and still not be within 1000 miles. To give our American cousins an idea of scale, Turkey is even bigger than Texas! As any Texan would say, nothing is bigger than Texas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffy Vella Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Thankyou, Ivan. That's a lovely gesture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irihapeti Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 dawn service at Auckland War Memorial then north to memorial service and parade at our marae. Attended with tipuna/ancestors and whanau/family who served in Pioneer battlion WWI. Maori Battlion WWII North Africa, Crete and Italy. NZ regulars and SAS: Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, East Timor, Kuwait, Afghanistan poignant day for our whanau is Anzac day our whanau goes to fight in foreign lands to defend our friends and to break the enemy so that they can never bring war to our lands homai he aroha mou i mate nei tenei ra, e te atua takina e koe give love we die today, the gods bring us [to them] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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