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Old 31 January 2007, 06:21 PM
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Default Drawing on lawns with weedkiller...

So, why did I think of astraboy when I read this story?

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Old 31 January 2007, 06:31 PM
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Very funny.

I hope they were expelled and their CSE qualifications stripped from them as they left

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Old 31 January 2007, 06:40 PM
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Kids get up to the strangest things!
Old 31 January 2007, 10:24 PM
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If they were smart, they'd have used fertilizer instead of weedkiller... it's more subtle, but the effects last much longer...
Old 31 January 2007, 10:25 PM
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Well if any of you have Google Earth. Find Yarm School in Teesside and have a look on the roof
Old 31 January 2007, 10:37 PM
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Paging Bubba....
Old 31 January 2007, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Onan The Barbarian
Well if any of you have Google Earth. Find Yarm School in Teesside and have a look on the roof
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Old 31 January 2007, 10:48 PM
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Wilfings that can be seen from space. I've been outdone, big-style.
Old 31 January 2007, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Onan The Barbarian
Well if any of you have Google Earth. Find Yarm School in Teesside and have a look on the roof
Good effort

(clicky for the lazy : Yarm School - Google Maps )
Old 31 January 2007, 11:35 PM
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I can't see anything Can someone do a screenshot?
Old 31 January 2007, 11:39 PM
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It's on the grey roofed building.. it's faint until you zoom in
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Originally Posted by little-ginge
It's on the grey roofed building.. it's faint until you zoom in
There's nothing there.
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Is it just me or is google is on the fritz?

Probably some 12yr old doing a ddos attack
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Originally Posted by Shark Man
Is it just me or is google is on the fritz?

Probably some 12yr old doing a ddos attack
I'm sorry, it's just a noise.
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
There's nothing there.

Can you still not see it?
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Says teh man who can't spot the huge wilf on the roof of a building
Old 31 January 2007, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Shark Man
Says teh man who can't spot the huge wilf on the roof of a building

Who can't see it?
Old 31 January 2007, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
There's nothing there.
Tis



See, told you
Old 31 January 2007, 11:53 PM
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Found it!


LOL.
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Google earth seems to have gone diddies up, but even when it was diddies down(?) I couldn't see anything
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Hang on - is my google earth different to everyone else?
Old 31 January 2007, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
Google earth seems to have gone diddies up, but even when it was diddies down(?) I couldn't see anything

when you type in the postcode, let it do it's stuff then scroll down ever so slightly.. Grey roofed building. Trust me, I just posted it up^^
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
Hang on - is my google earth different to everyone else?
Don't know. Is it Google Uranus?
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Originally Posted by Onan The Barbarian
Who can't see it?

The wilfmeister who has a penchant for tight trousers.
Old 01 February 2007, 12:02 AM
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I've got the building, the shadows are the same, but there is no massive willie type thing in the pic. Is there a red bus in the car park to the North of the building and three cars (all blueish) in the carpark sort of west of south west?
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Thats the one... def. a wilf when I look
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
I've got the building, the shadows are the same, but there is no massive willie type thing in the pic. Is there a red bus in the car park to the North of the building and three cars (all blueish) in the carpark sort of west of south west?

You probably haven't got the latest version. Go to the website and download it
Old 01 February 2007, 12:20 AM
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What is the latest version number? I've got 4.0.31919 (beta) I only downloaded it a couple of days ago
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Yep its definetly there..very funny
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My, what a big one!


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