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[f4f3]

Planning a weekend jaunt across the waters.

The note put me off, slightly. What the hell is happening on Jura?

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Are any of the quarries still active? If so, they are likely transporting blasting supplies.

[hano.livejournal.com]

Darn, so it's not the sohighlysecretitdoesntofficiallyexist facility where Lord Lucan reverse engineers the crashed UFOs?

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Deer? Perhaps it's a stag do.

*runs*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

And I suppose movement of explosives could be classified, given that Jura isn't all that far from Ireland, and probably a good smuggling point...

I don't think any of the quarries are still open though. You can get better slate elsewhere, and there isn't a big enough harbour for bulk mining.

I think it's a Torchwood internment centre.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of chatter about that part of the world in UFO-ologist circles. I guess having one of the longest runways in Europe at the tip of a scarcely populated peninsula tweaks some interest...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You can run *bang* but you can't *bang* hide *bang*

[ruric.livejournal.com]

Have they relocated Portland Down?

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

If you were moving large amounts of explosives I’d think you would classify that in case they were stolen.

[hano.livejournal.com]

D'oh, of course, I'd forgotten that's where RAF Machrihanish was before it closed. Certainly USAF SR-71s used to stop off there occasionally after flying over Northern Russia and the US Navy had a SEAL detachment there. So the military used to encourage the UFO stuff - was a perfect cover story as to the rather more, ah, earthbound, stuff they were actually doing.

[fiendish-cat.livejournal.com]

[tangent] My brother knows Lord Lucan.

Let me explain...

They finally declared *the* Lord Lucan dead which means his son - yes, that baby - has now inherited the title. And is friends with my brother's boss.

So I suppose it might be more accurate to say my brother has met Lord Lucan. But that's not quite such a good soundbyte. [/endtanget]

[hano.livejournal.com]

Oh and iirc it used to be where they stored the majority of the UK's nuclear bombs, something you really wouldn't want to advertise that you're moving.

[hano.livejournal.com]

Oh that's fantastic! Don't suppose he knows where Shergar is does he?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yup, I was playing golf at Macrahanish one day (probably the best course I've ever played) when a Hercules flew over out into the bay opened the cargo door, and dumped a platoon of navy seals out of the back, leaving them to swim ashore.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Lloyd George knew my mother :)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Or in case anyone wondered what you were doing with them.
And what the HELL is that new userpic?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hah! Portland Down was for the sissy stuff they don't do on Scottish Islands.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Archie Knox, a friend of a friend, was asked by local police why he was asking so many questions about the airbase. He told them he wanted to find out if you could land a Tupolov nuclear bomber there. True story.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Jura, as any fule kno, is the place with the top-secret lab where they're engineering a new breed of killer haggis.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Well obviously in case anyone wondered what you were doing with them.

You can' tell people these things. They might ask questions.

The new userpic is a whimsical Machievelli.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think "classified" here refers to Transportation of Hazardous Goods Regulations (or something of that ilk) rather than the Official Secrets Act

[hano.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean Porton Down?

[fiendish-cat.livejournal.com]

Hmm, they did say recently they were going to pave over the front garden......

[fiendish-cat.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[hano.livejournal.com]

Oh God. Imagine if it escaped! There'd be blood Irn-Bru on the streets!

[fiendish-cat.livejournal.com]

And thanks (not) for the earworm

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You don't get many of them to the pound.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

There may be rockets galore. And I've always liked Machievelli. A regular ray of sunshine, he is.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You are almost certainly right. I will be wrong, but romantic.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Shh! Careless talk costs lives!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

How would you tell the difference? #justanothersaturday

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Old Nic was cursed to see clearly where others refused to look.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I've always read "The Prince" as a satire (as well as world-class, life-saving arse licking)

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

You see, I've got two copies, one filed under politics, practical guides and one filed under self-help.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You don't have the one with the etchings then?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Could also be whisky.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I've got a copy of Mandrake - if that's what you mean.

Say no more.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hah! I have the original root!

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think you may be confusing the verb to have with the veb to be.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/bow-before-me.jpg

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Indeed.