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It was an argument over which was Europe’s fastest game bird that led to the production of the Guinness Book of Records. On 10th November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of Guinness Breweries) was with a shooting party in County Wexford, Ireland. Some Golden Plovers were shot at, and missed, which prompted a discussion as to whether they were Europe’s fastest game bird. Consulting reference books did not solve the issue, and it occurred to Sir Hugh that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in the 81,400 pubs in Britain and Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records. He discussed the matter with Ross and Norris McWhirter to see if their fact and figure agency could help. The result was the first Guinness Book of Records being published in time for Christmas 1955.
Bizarrely the question that was the reason for the creation of the Guinness Book of Records was not answered until the 36th edition in 1989: "Britain's fastest game bird is the Red Grouse (Lagopus l. scoticus) which, in still air, has recorded burst speeds up to 92.8-100.8 km/h 58-63 mph over very short distances. Air speeds up to 112 km/h 70 mph have been claimed for the Golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) when flushed, but it is extremely doubtful whether this rapid-flying bird can exceed 80-88 km/h 50-55 mph - even in an emergency". And I'm sure you knew already but this is a Red Grouse flying at speed, taken on the Peak District Moors.
Gamer Girl Honey Series Done at Sunny's maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Side%20Up/67/55/1201 Used Scene / pose Girl Alone Lazy nights
"Hold the Mayo?"
Tweeeet! Holding penalty, on the offense. Ten yard penalty. First down!
The yellow spiral piece is if taken form a Lego notebook.
Built for our Iron Builder round against Tyler (Legohaulic) and Michaela (Littlehaulic)! The seed part is the yellow rounded 1x2 slope.
MOC: Game On - a vignette I built for a competition at last year's Eurobricks Event in Billund.
The task was to build a 10x10-stud vignette showing what our sigfig would do in its spare time. Seeing as my s(t)igfig's occupation is clearly being a racing driver, I figured this would be something he might enjoy when not at work. As we all know, this guy is quite single-minded (some say his brain is made from red 2x4 bricks...) so it makes sense that he does pretty much the same thing for fun (provided he actually knows what that means) as he does for a living.
I'm happy with the result - maybe particularly the racing-style gaming chair. And that sticker on the TV screen is a LEGO sticker - it came in set 8682, Nitro Intimidator - and here's a picture of it from that set.
(Personally, I'm definitely not much of a gamer. I bought a Playstation once, the original one, back in... the last century! I played a bit of Colin McRae Rally on it, and never got hooked on Gran Turismo. So I sold it again after less than a year. Never owned a console after that...)
Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy's house and back that night were mine
And his cheating wife had never left town
That's one body that'll never be found
You see little brother don't miss when he aims his gun
Shot in my backyard on a warm sunday afternoon. . . Im ready for Fall.
ab800 above cam, 430ex camera right, Fireball in the sky for rim.
"When my dragons are grown, we will take back what was stolen from me and destroy those who wronged me! We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground!" -- Daenerys Targaryen [Game of Thrones]
So while I work on the normal stuff, Austin has been collecting micro armor tanks. He bought BM's instructions for the micro tank game a while back and built the basic armor. Then he built KingTiger719's Russians, Kribli Krably's Jagdpanther, Albert's Bison, Simon Riley's IS-2, multiple tanks by Rumrunner, a few of mrRipleyx's tanks, and a few unknown builder's tanks. He already has a micro town built for a battle scene. He is still amassing all the pieces he needs to build some of the tanks. :) He has a micro Long Tom, a winter Tiger, a Hellcat, a T-34, a King Tiger, and a few of my micro Flavierklings already built.
From L to R (Allies) - M26 Pershing, T-26, ISU-152, M4A3E8 Fury, M7 Priest, M18 Hellcat, M10 Wolverine, T34 Calliope, M4 Sherman, M3 Grant, M3 Lee, T-34, M3 Stuart, KV-2, JS2M, and IS-2.
From L to R (Axis) - Panzer III, Jagdpanther, Bison, Wespe, StuH 42, StuG III, StuG III G, Panzer IV H, Panzer IV F2, Panzer IV F1, Panther, winter Tiger, DAK Tiger, King Tiger.
Managed to hook up and tune a 1990 Sega Master System II to a 2016 Samsung flat screen TV this afternoon. Alex Kidd lives again!
Practicing on different retouching techniques, my Dave Hill Wannabe Style lol :-)
Original image can be seen here: www.supafly.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/00001s-940x817.jpg
