A pastime.
This one is plaguing me. I know that ornament on the side but for the life of me can’t pull it out of the wool.
It seems reasonable to see it as a stylised D?
roughbarked said:
A pastime.This one is plaguing me. I know that ornament on the side but for the life of me can’t pull it out of the wool.
It seems reasonable to see it as a stylised D?
I also can remember the badge but can’t remember it’s name
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
A pastime.This one is plaguing me. I know that ornament on the side but for the life of me can’t pull it out of the wool.
It seems reasonable to see it as a stylised D?
I also can remember the badge but can’t remember it’s name
The badge looks like a trident to me, but I’m guessing it ain’t a Maserati
kryten said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
A pastime.This one is plaguing me. I know that ornament on the side but for the life of me can’t pull it out of the wool.
It seems reasonable to see it as a stylised D?
I also can remember the badge but can’t remember it’s name
The badge looks like a trident to me, but I’m guessing it ain’t a Maserati
Maserati badge 
esselte said:
Awesome, man. So we are looking at a Volvo panel van from around the late forties early fifties.
roughbarked said:
esselte said:
Awesome, man. So we are looking at a Volvo panel van from around the late forties early fifties.
1959 Volvo 445 Duett panel wagon? Shares a lot of the features of the Volvo 544.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
esselte said:
Awesome, man. So we are looking at a Volvo panel van from around the late forties early fifties.
1959 Volvo 445 Duett panel wagon? Shares a lot of the features of the Volvo 544.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Duett
esselte said:
Tamb said:
esselte said:
Well done!
The Duett was based on the PV44
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
esselte said:
Well done!The Duett was based on the PV44
I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800. 
Tamb said:
I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800.
Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800.
Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800.
Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
Yes, a white one.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800.
Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
In The Saint series, yes.
That’s who Simon Templar was, wasn’t he?
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:I did a bit of rallying in one of these 1960s Volvo P1800.
Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
Cars don’t look a day older.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:Didn’t Simon Templar drive one of those?
In The Saint series, yes.That’s who Simon Templar was, wasn’t he?
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Are you thinking STD?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Are you thinking STD?
https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/About-sexually-transmitted-infections-STIs
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Are you thinking STD?
https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/About-sexually-transmitted-infections-STIs
Yeah well alright then, but just watch it.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Are you thinking STD?
https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/About-sexually-transmitted-infections-STIs
Yeah well alright then, but just watch it.
I used to watch it but that was the version with Dutton, not Moore. And, I suppose, Kilmer.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
He had a chequered health history but no mention of STIs.
Health
Moore had a series of diseases during his childhood, including chickenpox, measles, mumps, double pneumonia and jaundice. He had an infection of his foreskin at the age of eight and underwent a circumcision, and had his appendix, tonsils, and adenoids removed.
Moore was a long-term sufferer of kidney stones and as a result was briefly hospitalised during the making of Live and Let Die in 1973 and again whilst filming the 1979 film Moonraker.
In 1993, Moore was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent successful treatment for the disease.
In 2003, Moore collapsed on stage while appearing on Broadway, and was fitted with a pacemaker to treat a potentially deadly slow heartbeat. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2013. Some years before his final cancer illness, a tumour spot was found in the liver. Then, in 2017, during his cancer treatment period, he had a fall which badly injured the collarbone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
He had a chequered health history but no mention of STIs.
Health
Moore had a series of diseases during his childhood, including chickenpox, measles, mumps, double pneumonia and jaundice. He had an infection of his foreskin at the age of eight and underwent a circumcision, and had his appendix, tonsils, and adenoids removed.
Moore was a long-term sufferer of kidney stones and as a result was briefly hospitalised during the making of Live and Let Die in 1973 and again whilst filming the 1979 film Moonraker.
In 1993, Moore was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent successful treatment for the disease.
In 2003, Moore collapsed on stage while appearing on Broadway, and was fitted with a pacemaker to treat a potentially deadly slow heartbeat. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2013. Some years before his final cancer illness, a tumour spot was found in the liver. Then, in 2017, during his cancer treatment period, he had a fall which badly injured the collarbone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore
Should have had his martini’‘s stirred.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Yes, a white one.
It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Except back then they were called VD (venereal diseases).
Michael V said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:It seems two were used, one white, one cream.
It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Except back then they were called VD (venereal diseases).
(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Speaking of James Bonds I just read this.
“Connery is a keen supporter of Scottish Premiership football club Rangers F.C., having changed his allegiance from Celtic”
This man cannot be trusted.
Peak Warming Man said:
Speaking of James Bonds I just read this.“Connery is a keen supporter of Scottish Premiership football club Rangers F.C., having changed his allegiance from Celtic”
This man cannot be trusted.
I thought there was laws against that sort of thing.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:It’s nice that he named his cars over what he caught
Except back then they were called VD (venereal diseases).
(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speaking of James Bonds I just read this.“Connery is a keen supporter of Scottish Premiership football club Rangers F.C., having changed his allegiance from Celtic”
This man cannot be trusted.
I thought there was laws against that sort of thing.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Except back then they were called VD (venereal diseases).
(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Except back then they were called VD (venereal diseases).
(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
Fine, I declare my joke dead on arrival.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
dv said:(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
Fine, I declare my joke dead on arrival.
I laughed. Eventually.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:(rolls eyes) pretty sure he caught it on Earth, MV
Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
Fine, I declare my joke dead on arrival.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
It does.
peers over glasses at Boris
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
And specifically only amongst tourists to Mexico, apparently.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:Ha!
:)
Well, that’s what they were called, way back then STD came later, and STI even later. Anyway the number plate contains a number…
back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
it seems to these days but originally it was VD.
sibeen said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:back in my day we called it Montezuma’s revenge.
I thought that meant the runs
It does.
peers over glasses at Boris
one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
dv said:I thought that meant the runs
It does.
peers over glasses at Boris
one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:It does.
peers over glasses at Boris
one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:It does.
peers over glasses at Boris
one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
Tamb said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
Way back, VD was known as the French/English/German disease, depending on your nationality.
Yep. french pox etc.
Monty’s revenge was due to the spanish being arseholes in SA and bringing VD back from there, maybe, so it got called MR
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
dv said:I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
Way back, VD was known as the French/English/German disease, depending on your nationality.Yep. french pox etc.
Monty’s revenge was due to the spanish being arseholes in SA and bringing VD back from there, maybe, so it got called MR
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:one has the internet to ascertain the veracity of my claim.
I want to be your friend, Chrispy, but the internet says it is the runs…
The term appears in the title but the body doesn’t mention it, so perhaps the title is meant as a joke.
IT WAS called the “French disease” by the Italians and the “Italian disease” by the French. In the Netherlands it was assumed to be Spanish; in Russia, Polish. The Turks thought it was a Christian affliction. The Tahitians thought it came from Britain. According to Kristin Harper of Emory University in Georgia, they were all wrong. Syphilis, the illness with so many suspected origins, actually came from the New World. In other words, Columbus brought back much more than knowledge of an unsuspected continent from his travels.
For hundreds of years, people have debated whether syphilis came from the Americas or whether it, along with a number of closely related diseases, had a much longer history in Europe. Because the first undisputed outbreak was recorded in 1495, shortly after Columbus’s return, circumstantial evidence suggests an origin on the western shores of the Atlantic. But now science has turned to genetics in search of a definitive answer.
Dr Harper and her colleagues wanted to find out how syphilis was related to the bacterial pathogens responsible for other so-called treponemal diseases: yaws, endemic syphilis and pinta. These three infections are not transmitted sexually, as syphilis is, but by skin-to-skin or oral contact. However, her team faced a problem: collecting samples was difficult. During the 1950s and 1960s, the World Health Organisation undertook a huge eradication campaign in which more than 300m people in Africa, South America, South East Asia, the South Pacific islands and the Middle East were examined—and tens of millions were treated with penicillin.
Reducing the burden of disease by 95% was good for patients, but not so good for paleopathologists. Instead, the team had to gather together the world’s entire laboratory collection of treponematoses, and collect strains of the disease in wild baboons and rabbits. In addition, they were able to locate two specimens of yaws from the only known site of active infection in the Americas: Amerindians living far inside Guyana. In all, they managed to find 26 genetic sequences from different types of treponemal bacteria.
Comparing such data allows educated guesses to be made about which species are most closely related and what evolved when. The first thing Dr Harper found, as she reports in the Public Library of Science, was that of all the treponematoses, yaws was most likely to resemble the ancestral pathogen. This supports a theory that yaws is an “heirloom disease”: one caused by a bacterium that infected humanity’s ancestors and that has evolved with the species as people have spread around the world. Syphilis, though, emerged relatively recently in evolutionary terms.
The two Guyanese samples of yaws were a crucial component of this study, because they appeared to be the closest relatives of venereal syphilis and were genetically different from Old World species of yaws. Indeed, critics of the study reckon Dr Harper is relying too much on them, since the differences in question may be the result of local natural selection rather than the type of random mutation that this sort of analysis depends on. She, though, thinks the evidence suggests that an ancestral disease resembling yaws first arose in the Old World as a non-venereal infection. It spread to the Middle East and eastern Europe, and then on to the Americas in the form of New World yaws when humans crossed the Bering strait some 13,000 years ago. Finally, syphilis was introduced back into the Old World as a result of European exploration.
It is possible that when a bug that came from the moist, tropical New World arrived in the cooler climes of Europe it survived by adapting to the nearest thing European man (and woman) has to a tropical environment: the genitals. Thus freed from external constraint, it used the French, the Italians, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Russians, the Poles, the Turks, the Tahitians and even the British to become the global success that it is today.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:The term appears in the title but the body doesn’t mention it, so perhaps the title is meant as a joke.
IT WAS called the “French disease” by the Italians and the “Italian disease” by the French. In the Netherlands it was assumed to be Spanish; in Russia, Polish. The Turks thought it was a Christian affliction. The Tahitians thought it came from Britain. According to Kristin Harper of Emory University in Georgia, they were all wrong. Syphilis, the illness with so many suspected origins, actually came from the New World. In other words, Columbus brought back much more than knowledge of an unsuspected continent from his travels.
For hundreds of years, people have debated whether syphilis came from the Americas or whether it, along with a number of closely related diseases, had a much longer history in Europe. Because the first undisputed outbreak was recorded in 1495, shortly after Columbus’s return, circumstantial evidence suggests an origin on the western shores of the Atlantic. But now science has turned to genetics in search of a definitive answer.
Dr Harper and her colleagues wanted to find out how syphilis was related to the bacterial pathogens responsible for other so-called treponemal diseases: yaws, endemic syphilis and pinta. These three infections are not transmitted sexually, as syphilis is, but by skin-to-skin or oral contact. However, her team faced a problem: collecting samples was difficult. During the 1950s and 1960s, the World Health Organisation undertook a huge eradication campaign in which more than 300m people in Africa, South America, South East Asia, the South Pacific islands and the Middle East were examined—and tens of millions were treated with penicillin.
Reducing the burden of disease by 95% was good for patients, but not so good for paleopathologists. Instead, the team had to gather together the world’s entire laboratory collection of treponematoses, and collect strains of the disease in wild baboons and rabbits. In addition, they were able to locate two specimens of yaws from the only known site of active infection in the Americas: Amerindians living far inside Guyana. In all, they managed to find 26 genetic sequences from different types of treponemal bacteria.
Comparing such data allows educated guesses to be made about which species are most closely related and what evolved when. The first thing Dr Harper found, as she reports in the Public Library of Science, was that of all the treponematoses, yaws was most likely to resemble the ancestral pathogen. This supports a theory that yaws is an “heirloom disease”: one caused by a bacterium that infected humanity’s ancestors and that has evolved with the species as people have spread around the world. Syphilis, though, emerged relatively recently in evolutionary terms.
The two Guyanese samples of yaws were a crucial component of this study, because they appeared to be the closest relatives of venereal syphilis and were genetically different from Old World species of yaws. Indeed, critics of the study reckon Dr Harper is relying too much on them, since the differences in question may be the result of local natural selection rather than the type of random mutation that this sort of analysis depends on. She, though, thinks the evidence suggests that an ancestral disease resembling yaws first arose in the Old World as a non-venereal infection. It spread to the Middle East and eastern Europe, and then on to the Americas in the form of New World yaws when humans crossed the Bering strait some 13,000 years ago. Finally, syphilis was introduced back into the Old World as a result of European exploration.
It is possible that when a bug that came from the moist, tropical New World arrived in the cooler climes of Europe it survived by adapting to the nearest thing European man (and woman) has to a tropical environment: the genitals. Thus freed from external constraint, it used the French, the Italians, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Russians, the Poles, the Turks, the Tahitians and even the British to become the global success that it is today.
I knew it was called MR long before the internet was invented and long before it meant the runs.
just look at some of the google book results
And what of the Volvo?
Michael V said:
And what of the Volvo?
that’s the swedish revenge.
ChrispenEvan said:
just look at some of the google book results
Some references support your theory. I’ve cancelled the wacky wagon.
Tamb said:
Way back, VD was known as the French/English/German disease, depending on your nationality.
Are you talking about his two vulvas with the STI number plates?
I think it’s appropriate.
