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    Twice a week, in Lisbon, near the castle (Castelo de S. Jorge) there is an old and second hand fair. I go there several times per year together with Inęs. It's a beautiful walk and a nice way to spend the Tuesday or Saturday morning.




    It's a steep walk if you don't go by tram but you do get to see the old Lisbon. This Tuesday we went there. I buy books mostly... A toy or two and very rarely an old warhammer figure or a miniature. Our hobby is specific enough and with a very tiny scale... so let's say that things are hard to find.




    And I go mostly to see the odd things. The amazing stuff people brings there and the colorful interchange of objects and cultures.




    When I was younger I bought here a motorcycle! 125cc's still working for something like $150 US dollars. Not bad. This time was different. I was looking for something for Dave for some time now. A different thing. He makes all the WoG planes he wants to... so that wasn't the answer...I wanted something unique and in line with our hobby. But what?!




    I'll tell you that I was far from the "thing" when I saw it. "It can't be", I said aloud. "What?" Inęs asked me. I dragged her near the boot where the "thing" was. "Is it expensive?" She asked me softly. I was afraid to ask. I asked. I was told.




    "That's expensive", I told the seller, "and I really need it to offer it to a friend", he laughed, and we started our bargain. He knew I wanted it but was amused by my story. We finally reached an agreement. I was happy. Inęs laughed all along. "I wish you would go shopping with me with the same enthusiasm as you showed buying that for Dave." I laughed. "Yeh. You wished... The day carrots resemble planes, I'll be there with that kind of enthusiasm." And we head home.




    I love this place.

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    Very, very cool! Love the pics. I feel like I am there!

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    Thumbs up

    Oh you have left us all in suspense!
    We will now wait with anticipation to see just "what" it is.

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    Thanks. The photos aren't all mine. Some internet foraging was needed.

    The "thing" must reach Dave first...

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    Thanks for posting. I liked my brief visit to Lisbon in 1977. Got some communist posters that I still have today.

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    John, in '77 I was 6 years old, just recently arrived from Angola. The communists had some power then. The Hot Summer of 76' had passed away, a civil war avoided and revolutionary music was heard all over every day. Very tiresome, even if, some of these musics were really pieces of true art.

    I guess that the Central URSS committee decided that they couldn't open a new front in Western Europe or Alvaro Cunhal - the Portuguese communist leader - was decent enough to weight more the lives of his fellow citizens than his desire for power.

    I was 7 when I first understood that life on Earth was hanging on a thread waiting the decision of two major blocks.

    I still have (smewhere) an Anarchist poster with a Citroen Deux Chevaux filled with bullets and chained to a tree with the sentence in Portuguese written over its cowling: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Os cavalos também se abatem) - from the Horace McCoy novel. Wild years...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    Thanks. The photos aren't all mine. Some internet foraging was needed.

    The "thing" must reach Dave first...
    Aargh not fair! Burning from curiosity to know the "thing".

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    Lisbon is a wonderful place I wish I had had an opportunity to visit this old market when I was there
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    "We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."

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    Great images Joaquim! I wonder what is this gift???
    Thanks


    Nick
    Last edited by Barkmann; 08-22-2014 at 09:29.

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    It will be all the better for the wait chaps, and what an excuse for Quim to show us a part his wonderful city.
    I will be enjoying the suspense of my own waiting to visit there.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    I'll be more than glad to take you there. Eileen, if I'm not wrong will love the fair.

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    That looks an interesting market. I trust that you took a photograph of the 'mystery object', so that we can all see it eventually.

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    Lovely pics, and the start of an interesting story (to be expected from one of the 'Dromes master storytellers).
    Here in the States, we call them Flea Markets (why? Who Knows?), which my wife and I like to walk through.
    I keep my eyes peeled, but have not found any WoG stuff yet.
    If I had been with you, I'd probably have bought the hunting horn in the last pic
    Waiting for the next installment
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    Karl
    It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus

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    Oh, more than one photo, David. The "thing" deserves more than one photo.
    Karl, we call these markets here in Portugal "Feira da Ladra", a Ladra (woman thief) means the small amount of water that you take out from a stream for your own devices, be it to move the wheel of a mill or to irrigate rice fields. Probably means the small amount of money that you can make selling second hand things.

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    What a lovely turn of phrase Joaquim. Eloquent.

    we call these markets here in Portugal "Feira da Ladra",
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    Interesting story.

    I'm curious what this thing is...
    Voilā le soleil d'Austerlitz!

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    Thanks Neil, though I'm not quite sure what you meant by that. Did I said something in English that escaped my perception?

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    Sven, I'll ship it this week, so maybe two weeks from now we'll get to see what it is.

    A riddle:

    Too big for our tables,
    Small and deadly yet.
    Dreams of red for an entire Century
    Clipper's craftiness is perfect to honor it.

    And I'll say no more.

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    Today I left earlier from my job to mail Dave's present. I moved quickly to arrive the post office before it closed.
    I was heavy with Clipper's gift.



    A young man approached me. "Do you speak English?" he asked me. "Yes, please do tell." He had an accent that seemed from India. "You know where the post office is?" I laughed. "I'm going there. I'm sending a gift to a friend in the USA. You can come with me." he looked very relieved. "Can you give me an help? I need to send a letter to myself, so I can confirm with a bank my address to open an account." "Sure", I said. "Where are you from?" "From Pakistan. I've come to study here for three months." And so we went to the post office, I sent my package and help him with the letter to himself. I gave him my email and we shook hands. Then he said "may your God bless you for this kindness you've done." And I love civilized people. I was expecting him to bless me you his God and that would be fine by me. But he had this kindness to me. And I had to reply. "No. No." I said. "I'm the one lucky that you appeared so that I could make a good deed. It is I who must thank you." And he smiled with the game we played and said "No, no, no. I am the one who must ask you to thank your friend, who is such a good friend that you wished to send him a gift, so that I could met you and being aided by you." At this moment there were already many amused people listening carefully to us in the post office. As a host, I new I should concede victory at this point, but it was being so enjoyable that I decided to give it one more shot. "No. No. No." I said "It is I who must thank you to remind me that I have been bless with such good friends that allowed me to wish to offer them presents that made possible meet you and make a good deed." He put his hand to his heart and said, "If from now on here in Portugal, I find only rain, I'm robbed and stabbed and mistreated I will say that Portugal is the most wonderful country in the world only for having been helped by you!" And I started to laugh loudly and he started to laugh and I shook his hand and we parted, I surely more rich and glad to have meting him.

    And of course, thanks, Dave, for giving me this chance to meet someone new and having this wonderful conversation.
    Last edited by Blackronin; 08-21-2014 at 11:32.

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    What a story Joaquim!

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    Thanks, Nick, I was just writing it in Portuguese on Facebook.

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    Very nice story. The only time I was in Lisbon I was sitting in the square taking photographs and a street beggar came up to me with a long story about being robbed, far from home, losing his passport....I gave him some money for his wonderful story. I can only hope he is no longer doing that.

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    And he wasn't Portuguese, Peter?

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    Great story and another person showing what this room means to us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    And he wasn't Portuguese, Peter?
    I don't think so. I couldn't tell where he was from by his broken English. It was back in the early 90s, I don't even remember what he looked like.

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    Thumbs up

    What a great story 'quim & obviously both of you are just wonderfully nice folk.

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    ...and based on the size and shape of that package, it is obviously a SPAD VII propeller.

    (It should be a fairly simple exercise for the elves to build the rest of the plane.)

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    Jon! How could you spoil the surprise that's going all the way to Surprise?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    Thanks Neil, though I'm not quite sure what you meant by that. Did I said something in English that escaped my perception?
    "Feira da Ladra", Eloquent.
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    Great story Joaquim.

    Now to the package...at a rough guess I would say Approximately 33" x 12.5" (or 82.5cm x 34.25cm).

    It's red. Could relate to the Red Baron.
    Dreamed about for 100 Years. Relating to WW1.
    Small and deadly. Could relate to a Fokker Dr1.

    Could be a .....I'll PM Joaquim, for the rest of you you'll just have to guess like me.
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    Oh I see now...

    It must be that I'm tired from a long week of work and I'm not getting it Neil...

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    Our dear friend Neil tried his one shot to find out and.....



    ... He....



    Failed...


    A round applause for our friend.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    Sven, I'll ship it this week, so maybe two weeks from now we'll get to see what it is.

    A riddle:

    Too big for our tables,
    Small and deadly yet.
    Dreams of red for an entire Century
    Clipper's craftiness is perfect to honor it.

    And I'll say no more.
    Oh! Now it's the most obvious thing in the world! It's Soviet nuclear missile, which Clipper will turn into full-sized 1:144 Zeppelin!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Пилот View Post
    Oh! Now it's the most obvious thing in the world! It's Soviet nuclear missile, which Clipper will turn into full-sized 1:144 Zeppelin!
    Of course! Why not?!?!

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    Clipper is going to LOVE that trombone!!

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    Joaquim, lovely stories (and I'm referring to both gift and post-office banter). They tell of your great heart.

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    I'm loving this thread and all of the guesses that people are making.
    You're spreading the joy around, Joaquim.

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    Thanks, my friends.
    Nope.
    Nobody is even close.
    Very cold all around.
    Sorry.

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    Well I'm back and I'm working on it.
    This could prove to be a three G&T problem.
    Sherlock Kyte.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Sherlock Kyte.
    Just as long as it isn't the most-recent iteration of The Detective.... :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by csadn View Post
    Just as long as it isn't the most-recent iteration of The Detective.... :P
    Do you mean by that the fellow Herlock Shomes who keeps appearing in the Wipers Times?
    Kyte.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Do you mean by that the fellow Herlock Shomes who keeps appearing in the Wipers Times?
    Kyte.
    More like this: http://www.offworlddesigns.com/briti...-yaoi-t-shirt/ ....

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    You certainly can find them Chris.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Someone received a note from the post office to go there and claim a package...
    Someone did...
    Does the post office works on Sunday in Surprise?!
    Please do surprise me and say it does!

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    Someone received a note from the post office to go there and claim a package...
    Someone did...
    Does the post office works on Sunday in Surprise?!
    Please do surprise me and say it does!

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