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    Boringgeoff is offline Try not to be late, but never be early.
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    Default Ministerial contemplation.

    This is a story my old workmate Bill told me a long time ago.
    In his youth in the 1930's he contemplated joining the church as a minister, but couldn't decide which church to join. In the town where he was living in the Mid-west of WA there were two churches over the road from each other. On one side, the Catholic church, a big flash brick building with an imposing steeple. Opposite, the Anglican church, a rough looking corrugated iron shed. One day a cockeyed-bob hit town, uprooted the Anglican church and slammed it fair through the roof of the Catholic church completely wrecking them both. Bill contemplated the carnage and decided being a minister wasn't for him, as he told me " I couldn't work for a bloke that treated his gear like that".

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    Forgive your enemies, but never, ever forget their names.
    The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget.

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    To me it sounds like the supreme being was making a statement. ? ? ? ?

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    Thanks for this post - I've never heard of a "cockeyed-Bob" before, so I've now learned something. It seems to be a North-West term.

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    I think "cockeyed bob" tended to be used by the older generation perhaps but Bill ,who was probably born about 1915, also used willy-willy in a similar context to the quote from the third contributor to the Macquarie definition. "we used the term "cockeyed bob" to describe a particularly severe willy-willy, the type now referred to as "mini-tornadoes". It was never applied to cyclones,"
    Rodgera ?????? Really?
    Rich, maybe God looked down and thought "Bill will be better employed in the quarrying and haulage industry so I better do something to change his mind".
    Cheers,
    Geoff.

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    I like "cockeyed bob", in todays society willy will can mean several things...............
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    So can cockeyed bob. I remember a few years a go a bloke named Bob had his eyelid torn off in an industrial accident and the plastic surgeon replaced it with a piece of his foreskin. Some people knew him as cockeyed Bob others called him Robert Fore-sight.

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