Big Mike (Dibble) Photo Update

[Brad Mills]

Some fresh photos of Big Mikes Carrier...

[Brad Mills]

More, including the exhaust stacks...I think he should get some of those flapper valves for the top of the exhaust pipes...would scare the Bosch...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Looks the part, hope Mike is having fun with it.

Hanno

[Stewart Loy]

big mike seems to be having plenty of fun.

He lurks on the fordbarn.com site now, since having been thrown off this site for such poor behaviour. He posted the following there, following a query from a mutual member about how he was getting on. As an excuse for getting punted from MLU he offered the following:

Posted by BIG MIKE from pool-72-74-229-216.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (72.74.229.216) on Monday, January 15, 2007 at 0:03AM :

Ja I usta been a member thier for a few years, Lots of cool vehicles including mine and others, But alass its run by a few knuckleheads from Canada, witch sum don't like Americans so I opped to leave , lol then I was tossed out , mmm Go figure. Paul thanks for posting that , But do you know what I say? Fk'em!! don't get me started mate Cheers BIG MIKE USA #1

This was followed by some good old fashioned Canuck bashing by a few rednecks.

We are better off without him - I hope he gets everything that he deserves.



Stewart

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Stewart Loy
This was followed by some good old fashioned Canuck bashing by a few rednecks.

The ultimate irony is that Tanknet, which IS international but primarily American-oriented, is run by a couple of Canadian officers (me being one), and THEIR rednecks, some of whom have served their whole lives in military service, and many in combat, like us just fine. I suspect the complainers you are referring to are the pretenders.

[alleramilitaria]

Too bad a nice carrier is owned by a loud mouth jerk.

i read some of his posts on the ford forum and he still does not get it. he was not ask to leave this forum for any one reason.

he was ask to leave for many.....
disrespect to the history of the canadian military
disrespect to the history of the aussie military
treason for revealing US military movements here on the open web prior to them being officaly released.
making threats to other MLU members
making a jerk of himself and demeaning others
trashing canada as a whole and insulting every canadian telling me how stupid they are for selling him parts.
sneaking back on the site and again being a jerk.


and for all my canadian, aussie, NZ, and anyone else who he has been offended by him all i can say is that im sory and all americans are not jerks.

dave

Originally posted by alleramilitaria
and for all my canadian, aussie, NZ, and anyone else who he has been offended by him all i can say is that im sory and all americans are not jerks.

dave

I know more Canadian jerks than I do American jerks We've all got a few jerks, no matter what country we hail from, eh?

Thank god for nice people from all over the world that FAR outnumbers the jerks! And so many in MLU alone

[Ryan]

Like my dad use to say,

" doesn't matter where you come from, an arsehole is an arsehole."

The great thing about being an aussie or a canuck or a yank is that we come from countries with a wide mix of peoples that have a wider mix of experiences ( which leads to so many good foods ). And MLU is one great mixing bowl to keep coming back to......hmm, what's cookin' today?

Regards

[rob love]

Careful guys..Big Mike is watching U.

Posted by BIG MIKE from pool-72-74-229-216.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (72.74.229.216) on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 6:39PM :

sorry for not posting a v8 tech ? but I had to say a few posts that people in Canada are taking from this forum and posting them on other forums, Shelly , The webmaster i'll be giving you a list of IP address and Names + emails of people IN ONTERIO and here in the USA infaltrating the fordbarn and using other peoples address and emails ILLEGALLY, They are probally watching and reading these posts as we speak, as One of them called a few/most of us Americans rednecks. in one of thier Canadian post on a Canadian web site. Talk soon


Cheers BIG MIKE USA #1

Anyway, hard feelings aside, BMs carrier doesn't look too bad, considering how he seems to like shortcuts. And it looks like he's got the color right.

Note to Big Mike: Shiney Brass fire extinguishers go on the inside of a vehicle. I realise that yours is a Mk2-1 interim changeover vehicle so you get some poetic liscence, but there are photos on the net showing where things are supposed to go.
I mentioned to Mike once that I thought he was Dyslexic....would that explain the ration box on the wrong side?

Anyway Mike, take her cool. Carrier is looking OK....you have helped save another one.

[Pedr]

I see his spell checker is still not working.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Big Mike's use of the Queen's English can crap out any spell checker at 1500 yards. LOL

[Jordan Baker]

I see he really is watching. Mike you could have at least gotten the MLU web address right so people could come an see just how good of a site this is.

Posted by BIG MIKE from pool-72-74-229-216.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (72.74.229.216) on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:41AM :

Folks Seems it happening again!!! people taking my posts on the fordbarn and putting them on this other web site and taken it out of text , this is mostly done by a few ONTERIO canadians and thier cronies throught Canada, you can see using thier search feature by punching up BIG Mike , the web site is www.mlu.up
I think the web master on that military Canadian web site page should be told this crap should not continue. and have control of his members and it also seems thier breaking thier own rules, by dignity and threating people by emails and defamation of Character on thier site ware I cannot defend my self Fordbarn never tollerate this kinda stuff as Shelly is our On the spot in control webmaster, I thankyou for the support. Cheers BIG MIKE USA#1 , and more than likely this post will wind up over thier soon. they just don't like Americans I guess.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

....they just don't like Americans I guess.

Funny that the other Yanks on this site seem to get along.... and otherwise, I'm personal friends with many Yanks I've known since 1995 from Tanknet and its predecessor. I've been there and they've been here, and we're getting together in England in 2008.

Yeah, I guess I don't like Americans...

[rob love]

I called a US exchange soldior a Yank one time, and he corrected me by saying something about being from the other side of the mason/dixie line?
Whats that all about? And can a guy be a yank and a redneck? Or is redneck just for the guys from the midwest?

Boy, these topics sure can run strange courses.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by rob love
I called a US exchange soldior a Yank one time, and he corrected me by saying something about being from the other side of the mason/dixie line?

Ah, a southerner, one who believes the American Civil War was actually The War Of Northern Aggression.

[sapper740]

Originally posted by rob love
I called a US exchange soldior a Yank one time, and he corrected me by saying something about being from the other side of the mason/dixie line?
Whats that all about? And can a guy be a yank and a redneck? Or is redneck just for the guys from the midwest?

Boy, these topics sure can run strange courses.

To people from other countries, the term "Yank" refers to all Americans. If you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, "Yank" isn't used as often as "Yankee", a perjorative which refers to those people who initiated the War of Northern Agression. I lived here in Texas for 5 years before I realized "Damnyankee" was two words! Today in the South, Civil War battles aren't reenactments, they are reengagements!

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Funny that the other Yanks on this site seem to get along.... and otherwise, I'm personal friends with many Yanks I've known since 1995 from Tanknet and its predecessor. I've been there and they've been here, and we're getting together in England in 2008.

Yeah, I guess I don't like Americans...

Further to Big Mike's comments that we Canadians don't like Americans...I guess I don't like my Father, Grandfather, Wife. In-laws, step-son, cousins, 2nd cousins, friends......................

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Funny that the other Yanks on this site seem to get along.... and otherwise, I'm personal friends with many Yanks I've known since 1995 from Tanknet and its predecessor. I've been there and they've been here, and we're getting together in England in 2008.

Yeah, I guess I don't like Americans...

Interesting, the following exchange. I woke up to his message and replied accordingly:

Mike,

Interestingly, the England thing has nothing to do with MLU and everything to do with Tanknet; most there will be past or current-serving members of US and foreign police forces or military.

Beyond that, I'm confused about whom you're referring to as "my trio". There is no conspiracy against you.

I will post this as per your wish.

-----Original Message-----
From: NANCY GREELEY [mailto:big.mike.5@verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:53 PM
To: sunray
Subject: getting together in england?


For what Jiffy? non military vehicle owners of North America and abroad? or is it geek squad web site fundementlist's? seems you and your trio the same ones all the time like to put jabs at myself and vehicle, no matter just goes to show how clicky your selfcenterd site is , I wish you post this email. Oh by the way i'l be in Onterio in june for an 1812 event come see me in person. it'l be nice to see what my halbred can do


yours in yourside BIG MIKE

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Interesting, the following exchange. I woke up to his message and replied accordingly:

Jefe, make it a quartet, I'm in! Some advice to Big Mike, never bring a halberd to a trebuchet fight!

Y'know, you don't have to read too far between the lines to realize that getting kicked off MLU is eating Big Mike up. Mike, you're the architect of your own misfortune. I'm actually sorry you are gone as I enjoyed your bluster and obvious joie-de -vivre. If nothing else Big Mike, you are a character but my advice to you is get over the MLU fracas, enjoy your carrier, and remember who won the War of 1812.

[RHClarke]

Originally posted by sapper740

...and remember who won the War of 1812.

If we won, why the hell did we take the cold half?

[sapper740]

Originally posted by RHClarke
If we won, why the hell did we take the cold half?

To keep our superior beer cool, of course!

[RHClarke]

Originally posted by sapper740
To keep our superior beer cool, of course!

Hard to reconcile that one...particularly when I can get a cold one in Texas, Arizona, Florida...

[Rich Payne]

I have to say that I admire the personalised fuel can on the carrier, even if it does lack the possessive apostrophe

Rich.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by sapper740
Jefe, make it a quartet, I'm in! Some advice to Big Mike, never bring a halberd to a trebuchet fight!

Y'know, you don't have to read too far between the lines to realize that getting kicked off MLU is eating Big Mike up. Mike, you're the architect of your own misfortune. I'm actually sorry you are gone as I enjoyed your bluster and obvious joie-de -vivre. If nothing else Big Mike, you are a character but my advice to you is get over the MLU fracas, enjoy your carrier, and remember who won the War of 1812.

I'm afraid it's out of my hands now.

[Pedr]

Originally posted by Rich Payne
I have to say that I admire the personalised fuel can on the carrier, even if it does lack the possessive apostrophe

Rich.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Subtle, but very clever. I like it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Lynn Eades]

I agree Pedr, Very clever, and so fitting!!

[rob love]

Originally posted by Rich Payne
I have to say that I admire the personalised fuel can on the carrier, even if it does lack the possessive apostrophe

Rich.

My use of the English language is, perhaps, not quite as refined as those accross the big pond so I had to look up "pratt".
All I found was " prat: n Slang. the rump or backside; buttocks".
Is this the correct interpretation for the name on the tin?

I'm willing to bet the tin will be turned the other way around for the next series of photos.

Originally posted by rob love
My use of the English language is, perhaps, not quite as refined as those accross the big pond so I had to look up "pratt".
All I found was " prat: n Slang. the rump or backside; buttocks".
Is this the correct interpretation for the name on the tin?

Ah, now this is a job for The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition, Revised 2001; a lumpy reference tome of some 1708 pages and 2¼" thick, which would be 57.15mm for the metricated people; such is the exhaustive compaction of information therein that my reading glasses are demanded.

Page 1124, column 1, tells us:

prat. n. informal 1 Brit. an incompetent or stupid person. 2 a persons buttocks. - Origin C16: of unknown origin.

I can tell you no English nationals of the WASP lineage use or understand the definition 2 above and it has come as a surprise to me, however, it is possible that since the 16th century the understanding of "persons buttocks" has become "arse" and from there with the more recent "hole" added would make a similar understanding to 1 above.

Your best on-line reference for our vast armoury of quintessential British slang is here:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm

I'm willing to bet the tin will be turned the other way around for the next series of photos.

But very, very short odds I think.

R.

[Mike K]

I have a 1979 6th edition , found in the local 'op shop' for 50 cents .

Do op shops exist in the UK ?

Mike

[rob love]

Originally posted by Richard Notton
Ah, now this is a job for The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition, Revised 2001; a lumpy reference tome of some 1708 pages and 2¼" thick, which would be 57.15mm for the metricated people; such is the exhaustive compaction of information therein that my reading glasses are demanded.
R.

Therein lies my error, for I used the Gage Canadian Dictionary....."only $9.95" emblazoned on it's top right corner. At just under 50mm, the space saved under the Oxford version must be because of the missing English terms.

Ignorance is bliss.