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Rest in Peace
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes big feller, That's the one. My Dutch enunciation is lousy  Big cliffs reef at the bottom and you can catch lobster by hand there  No need to dive for the abalone either at low tide they are on the top of the flat reef |
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Very intense movie. A great film. I'm on holidays in surfers wih my wife & I wasn't going to miss it & I'm very happy I watched it.
For all those note collectors; a great movie is: The counterfeiters (world film with subtitles)
Wife was reading the Ben cousins biography in the other room.
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The Counterfeiters (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547/I think it's been on SBS - I'll make sure I see it next time it's up. I must have had a lapse of concentration during "The Great Mint Swindle" - the plot seemed to be that they were happy to defraud Alan BOND ("The Yellow Rose of Texas" case), but had clean hands in the larger case ... |
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Never watched it, and never will. So what happened in the end?
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Yeah I didn't bother with it either, I saw all the adds on TV then when I went to watch it, well it was boring -- I caught the part where a guy was in a room and the punched him a few times, ye old gangster stuff- boring, Would of loved to have seen all the gold bars!
I ended up watching hellboy2 and gone in 60 seconds.
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Edited by Ausjack
03/12/2012 9:45 pm
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for those interested, it's being repeated at 9.30pm, tonight, on channel 90 "GEM".
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Thanks for the update Pete I have met these blokes ( when there were 3 of them ) and they were dodgy buggers then. Truthfully they got a lot less than they deserved in my opinion. It is an interesting yarn all the same, despite the inaccuracies. Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn |
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I met the Mickelberg brothers Years ago when they were abalone divers working the Zoypdorp cliffs north of here.
They seemed like nice blokes Quote:
I have met these blokes ( when there were 3 of them ) and they were dodgy buggers then. So which one was it trout? Good guys or bad guys?! Edited by Grant
03/16/2012 4:47 pm
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I'm almost embarrassed to confess this, but I watched it again. The story-telling was a bit slick, and it merged two stories. They were guilty of one crime (the "Yellow Rose of Texas"), which made them suspects for the later, larger fraud and theft. They deny any involvement in the later case, and half of the movie concerns their efforts to clear their names.
the "Yellow Rose of Texas" case justifies the description "dodgy", but the question remains, "how dodgy ?"
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The Gold that was sent to the Police & Journo's is bizarre and doesn't make sense esp. the SA Gold,surely the person would know it would be tested.Lots of rumours at the time,Bondy was involved & set the Mickleberg's up,head policeman was salting his Kalgoorlie mine etc.Also stories that more "items" were going out the back door of the Perth Mint than the front. Grant,how do you put quotes/edits in posts here?,i can't find the link.TIA |
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Rest in Peace
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 , Basil! On reply to post, click on the white paper with the red arrow. On quick reply, type [ quote][ /quote] without the space after the bracket. |
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Edited by Basil
03/17/2012 6:16 pm
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"The sum of $126,000 in coins was found in buckets and bags in the garage ..."
makes me wonder how much is in my shed ...
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Posted 03/11/2012 11:27 pm
And who want in on the next one 
