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[mighty_tiger_79]

John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary

will you be celebrating???

[dedja]

Don't forget your surfboard ...

[Psyber]

John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary

Which John Nash?
Wikipedia:

John Nash may refer to:
John Nash (MP) (1590–1661), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648
John Nash (architect) (1752–1835), Anglo-Welsh architect
John Nash Round, English architect active in the mid-19th-century Kent
John Nash (footballer) (1867–1939), English footballer
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), English painter and engraver
John Nash (cricket administrator) (1906–1977), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931–1971
John Francis Nash (1909–2004), American railroad executive
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born 1928), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind
Johnny Nash (born 1940), African-American pop singer-songwriter
John Nash, Baron Nash (born 1949), British peer, government minister and businessman
John J. Nash (died 1989), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
John Nash (basketball), American basketball executive

[daysofourlives]

John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary

Which John Nash?
Wikipedia:

John Nash may refer to:
John Nash (MP) (1590–1661), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648
John Nash (architect) (1752–1835), Anglo-Welsh architect
John Nash Round, English architect active in the mid-19th-century Kent
John Nash (footballer) (1867–1939), English footballer
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), English painter and engraver
John Nash (cricket administrator) (1906–1977), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931–1971
John Francis Nash (1909–2004), American railroad executive
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born 1928), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind
Johnny Nash (born 1940), African-American pop singer-songwriter
John Nash, Baron Nash (born 1949), British peer, government minister and businessman
John J. Nash (died 1989), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
John Nash (basketball), American basketball executive

Or John Nash- State cricketer, selector, father of Jay, father in law of one of the Gowans boys, school teacher

[dedja]

Rex Jory can assist you ...

IT was one of the sillier things I've done. On a windy January Monday in 1976, I joined 2000 people at Glenelg.

We faced the sea and waited to be swamped, indeed obliterated, by a tidal wave.

We knew, of course, that nothing would happen.

But Melbourne housepainter John Nash predicted the catastrophe after he had a dream that much of Adelaide would be wiped out by an earthquake and tidal wave at noon on January 19, 1976.

His prediction became rumour which swept the city. The rumour became an inevitable fact.

People sold beachfront properties for bargain prices. Occupancy at foreshore hotels and motels dropped to 25 per cent. Staff absenteeism doubled.

Hundreds of people, particularly of Greek and Italian backgrounds, fled inland as far as the Riverland, their cars loaded with personal possessions, to avoid the ocean-generated holocaust.

One couple arrived in the Renmark with a goldfish in a bowl.

At Barmera, the caravan park had the "full'' sign out and turned dozens of people away.

The BBC sent a television crew to Glenelg from London to record the predicted catastrophe.
Media from across Australia were there. A Sydney radio station did its regular morning show from Adelaide to record the Big Wave.

At Glenelg, the mood of the crowd was somewhere between hysteria and hilarity.

No one seriously believed there would be a tidal wave, but it was sort of fun to be there just in case.

On the beach, a brisk sea breeze whipped up flopping waves big enough to topple a toddler but too small to tempt even a novice surfer.

The Premier, Don Dunstan, mingled with the crowd, assuring people nothing would happen.
Some of the true believers wore flippers and goggles. A few carried surfboards.

One man came in a dinner suit, saying he wanted to die in style.

As midday approached, Mr Dunstan appeared on the balcony of the Pier Hotel and told the crowd
we had nothing to fear. There would be no disaster.

He drew a great cheer when he said Mr Nash, who made the prediction, would not be welcome in Adelaide again.

But we were ready to cheer anything.

At midday there was a bit of a count down, 4000 eyes looked to sea and as history didn't need to record, nothing happened.

We knew there would be no tidal wave.

But we went, nevertheless.

Within minutes, laughing toddlers were again scampering from the flopping waves. The crowd filtered into restaurants and bars.

The following morning ,The Advertiser in an admonishing editorial said: "Hopefully, the lesson we should all have learnt from yesterday's pathetic anticlimax is to rely more on our common sense and less on the silly and unscientific speculation of self-appointed soothsayers.''

Perhaps. But, in an odd way, I'm glad I was there.

[Footy Chick]

I wonder if he's still alive.

John Nash I mean...

[Booney]

Rex Jory can assist you ...
IT was one of the sillier things I've done. On a windy January Monday in 1976, I joined 2000 people at Glenelg.
We faced the sea and waited to be swamped, indeed obliterated, by a tidal wave.
We knew, of course, that nothing would happen.
But Melbourne housepainter John Nash predicted the catastrophe after he had a dream that much of Adelaide would be wiped out by an earthquake and tidal wave at noon on January 19, 1976.
His prediction became rumour which swept the city. The rumour became an inevitable fact.
People sold beachfront properties for bargain prices. Occupancy at foreshore hotels and motels dropped to 25 per cent. Staff absenteeism doubled.
Hundreds of people, particularly of Greek and Italian backgrounds, fled inland as far as the Riverland, their cars loaded with personal possessions, to avoid the ocean-generated holocaust.
One couple arrived in the Renmark with a goldfish in a bowl.
At Barmera, the caravan park had the "full'' sign out and turned dozens of people away.
The BBC sent a television crew to Glenelg from London to record the predicted catastrophe.
Media from across Australia were there. A Sydney radio station did its regular morning show from Adelaide to record the Big Wave.
At Glenelg, the mood of the crowd was somewhere between hysteria and hilarity.
No one seriously believed there would be a tidal wave, but it was sort of fun to be there just in case.
On the beach, a brisk sea breeze whipped up flopping waves big enough to topple a toddler but too small to tempt even a novice surfer.
The Premier, Don Dunstan, mingled with the crowd, assuring people nothing would happen.
Some of the true believers wore flippers and goggles. A few carried surfboards.
One man came in a dinner suit, saying he wanted to die in style.
As midday approached, Mr Dunstan appeared on the balcony of the Pier Hotel and told the crowd
we had nothing to fear. There would be no disaster.
He drew a great cheer when he said Mr Nash, who made the prediction, would not be welcome in Adelaide again.
But we were ready to cheer anything.
At midday there was a bit of a count down, 4000 eyes looked to sea and as history didn't need to record, nothing happened.
We knew there would be no tidal wave.
But we went, nevertheless.
Within minutes, laughing toddlers were again scampering from the flopping waves. The crowd filtered into restaurants and bars.
The following morning ,The Advertiser in an admonishing editorial said: "Hopefully, the lesson we should all have learnt from yesterday's pathetic anticlimax is to rely more on our common sense and less on the silly and unscientific speculation of self-appointed soothsayers.''
Perhaps. But, in an odd way, I'm glad I was there.

Got a photo somewhere that my Mum took of me sitting in a blow up boat with some strange chap on the corner of Tapleys Hill and Burbridge Roads.

I was about 4 months old, Mum was driving down to the beach to have a look and stopped to take a photo.

The bloke was facing the beach with oars at the ready, life jacket on in a 5-6ft blow up boat.

[LaughingKookaburra]

Remember my Mum who grew up in Lyrup telling me that the town was flocked during this.

[mal]

19/1/1976
A young Bayman wandered around Glenelg Beach that day
He recalls seeing people with surfboards
He saw Donny Dunstan at the occasion
Who knows, had Bayman slipped and fallen that day, there may have been an earthqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqquake

I was working that day
Like Don I was a Labor man, I worked that day as a brickies laborer
Had the radio on all day for news updates , listening to all the fuss
Never once did I think John Nash would be right

20/1/2014
Earthqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqquake
6.3 Castlepoint New Zealand
Did Booney or Bayman have a fall yesterday ?

[mal]

When you see photos of John Nash
There is a slight resemblance to Greg Chappell

[The Apostle]

BUMP!!!

Anyone feel it? Happened around 7:27pm local time. I was sitting at home on the computer and the whole house vibrated for about 10-15 seconds.

[dedja]

probably a stolen car hitting your house ...

[dedja]

BUMP!!!

Anyone feel it? Happened around 7:27pm local time. I was sitting at home on the computer and the whole house vibrated for about 10-15 seconds.

AdelaideNow ...

BREAKING: A MAGNITUDE 4.7 earthquake has struck 70km north of Peterborough in the state’s north.

[Footy Chick]

felt nothing....

[dedja]

what about the earthquake?

[Footy Chick]

that either.

[mal]

Lightning does strike twice ?
29/4/2014 South Australia [4.7]
29/4/1941 Western Australia [7.2]

73 years before the SA quake there was one listed at Meeberrie , Western Australia
It was felt 500km away in Perth
The 7.2 Meeberrie EarthQqQQqQqQqQqQquake is believed to be the largest recorded in Australian history

[The Apostle]

Not one else felt it?!?!

[mighty_tiger_79]

Did the Maree Man fart today at around lunchtime for the earthquake

[mal]

Had a dream last sleep
I was on a high building with a conglomeration of peoples
An earthQqQQqQqQqQquake of force rocked the complex , and then I woke up

I'm not sure the significance of this dream
Perhaps a qQqQqqQqQquake somewhere with a tall or high meaning to it

Maybe a 5.0 on the richter scale