You’re probably getting pretty tired of this, but I’m back up to Fallon for the week, and posting will be necessarily slow while en route.
I can’t do this all on my own (I’m no superman).
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Hints about the increased capacity and security of the liquor locker increase thread counts.
Safe traveling and good flying!
Nah, I’ve brought my own stuff. The question is: Will we have to blast to get into the gun safe?
Come to think of it, most gun safes aren’t very spiffy as safes go. I betcha a boron nitride cutting disk on an ordinary circular saw would do the trick. We’d have to divert the gals with a shopping trip, or something.
“I’m no superman.”
WHAT??? Tell me it ain’t so! Next you’ll be telling us there is no Santa Claus! Talk about shattered illusions! Does this mean you have to turn in your fighter-pilot, er, nasal radiator, man-card–that your admission means you’ll be drummed out of the fighter fraternity? (or just out of ASJA
) Tell us it ain’t so!
I too am deeply disillusioned. I guess all that Guinness was for naught.
Sigh.
This is unacceptable. How dare you provide for your family doing a job most of us would sacrifice intimate body parts to get. Your purpose is to entertain us like a particularly loquacious dancing monkey. You must immediately quit your dream job and chain yourself to your computer for our entertainment. Failure to do so will result in…well, I actually haven’t figured that part out yet, but rest assured, it will be unpleasant. Maybe I’ll hold my breath. Maybe I’ll vote for Obama.
“Maybe I’ll vote for Obama.”
Now THAT cuts to the quick..
I’m stealing a play from Sheriff Bart’s book.
Ah, another Scrubaholic. We didn’t get into that until it was just about finished, then hired all the episodes on dvd. One of the better US TV comedy shows, methinks. And what was it with Cox thyat turned him against Hugh Jackman?
Hogday, The Doctor and I were agape with amazement when “Scrubs” first appeared, for we “knew” ever character type portrayed in that show. As background, the show’s creator had a college friend who was at the time going through his post-medical school training, first in Internal Medicine, then in cardiology and he freely shared his amusing stories, many of which became plots, sub-plots or quick jokes in the show. There’s an amazing amount of true little vignettes in the show, especially in the first four years or so. Numerous physicians-in-training also wrote to the show’s writers with stroes that began “hey, you think that was crazy; let me share this with you…” that wound up in the series.
My wife is an ED RN and that show cracked her up. Though she’d laugh when we didnt. I guess some of the diseases they’d list on diagnosis were all also obscure conditions from the dark corners of medicine. It was a great show.
Comjam: something about military/police/healthcare types and the vagaries of their humour that I have always shared – guess that’s why I hang about this place. I guess, like you, some of my own yarns have to be toned-down in mixed company for fear of folks either not believing them to be true or out of concern I might leave them shocked and traumatised
Truth is often stranger than fiction. Fiction generally shows the limits of one person’s imagination. Reality, on the other hand shows far more diversity.
Maybe you could compose your next post on your iPad knee board while at cruise. Then drop down below 5000 to pickup signal and post the update.
But you’d have to let go of the stick for that. Which, is something you’ve indicated is a no no.
We’ll carry on. Have fun.
Lex, As you can see from the way the comments are trending above…a sobering number of the usual suspects who comment around here, God love em, need to get a life or in the alternative occasionally get out of the house/cellar more often. Best
“I’m SupRAman…”
Why would we be getting ‘pretty tired’ of more F-21/Fallon stories?
Since you DID say you can’t do this all on your own, here is my attempt to distract the masses– plane pr0n of Blue Angel’s practice
courtesy of an invite from NAF El Centro PAO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18842924@N03/sets/72157629379884265/
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. There. I wrote something.
Ow, Snake! I’m sensitive that way, you know.
I got a snow alert from Mammoth Mt. so I think the weather might have an impact on flying out of Fallon!
Top Ten Alternatives for POTUS instead of apologizing to the Afghans
1. Dedicate a round of golf to the people of Afghanistan.
2. Send Michelle for a symbolic vacation to Jalalabad.
3. Ask the Afghans if they’d like the Russians back instead.
4. Head to a local Afghan restaurant and bow to the wait staff.
5. Offer to make Afghanistan’s heroin “The Official Heroin of the United States.”
6. Give Afghan children a permanent exemption from Michelle’s “Let’s Move” school lunch offerings.
7. Provide unlimited, free doses of Prozac to the entire adult population of Afghanistan.
8. Change the lyrics of O Tannenbaum to O Taliban.
9. Set up a program to provide virgins to Afghan men who refuse to commit suicide bombings.
10. Demand an apology from Afghanistan for the more than 1,800 U.S. forces killed since the start of the war
SK!,
Now that is funny! (in a really dark and pathetic way)
Best,
Dust
Great ideas, but where will you get the virgins? Seems they are in short supply these days, with “educators” spending more time telling them to explore their sexuality than how to execute (no pun intended) calculus based math problems….you know, because we need more H1B Visa holders here from India/Pakistan/China and other such garden spots.
Watched Act of Valor on Saturday; as the final credits scrolled past, the film honored those team members lost since 9/11. It looked like at least 60 some names were listed. In a community as small as theirs…
I think this is why the .gov is wanting to send all combat vets to shrinks and get them declared loony; the .gov has created a bunch of very grumpy vets, is bringing them home, and is rightly afraid of them.
P.s. The gal who sits behind me in church recently had her son, a Sergeant of Marines, invalided out of A-stan for a back injury. He is healing up nicely. She agrees with me that he is well out of there, as these last few wars are not only stupidly conducted, but not in our national interest.
Sergeant Harmer, her son, sure is a real shiny Marine though, judging from the one time I saw him, when his daughter was christened, and he wearing the Dress Blue.
I think it was the huge rucksack load which got him. I beg y’all’s prayers for his complete healing, and that he not be ever again commanded to do stupid wrong things for the sake of some silly doodahs in D.C.
JTG … I’ve got to agree with you about the “silly doodahs” in D.C. The latest Drudge Report says that the Person in the White House is planning to cut military health insurance in another stupid non-solution to the budget crisis. It’s disgusting.
What it does is harden my resolve to vote the doodahs out in November even if I have to hire a bodyguard to go with me. They’re busy devising a charm offensive for the Person…um, here in our house we are referring to him as Captain Algy. He’s offensive enough as it is.
Marianne
P.s. I examined Sgt. (then Corporal) Harmer’s chest when I saw him in church. I paid no attention to the colored ribbons, because you get a bunch of those these days just for showing up. I did note that he shot Expert both with rifle, and pistol.
As a gun nerd, that just warms my cockles.
BHO makes sure that the self-serving, greedy, corrupt UAW members get a multi-thousand ($3-$6K) dollar bonus for almost killing the auto industry (and as a bribe to help BHO get reelected). While, at the same time, and with malice aforethought, BHO cuts the health benefits of those who serve our country, often at cost of life and limb.
The Dear Leader of NK could not be more proud of our Dear Leader.
It just keeps getting more grotesque every day. The White House and Congress are a fetid swamp that needs clearing out, draining and starting over.
Term limits – it’s long past time for them. If our president can’t serve more than 2 terms, then why do members of Congress get to view their positions as lifetime appointments.
As for Obama – he MUST go in November. Lex has said many times that the Republic will survive. At this point – I’m not so sure about that anymore.
TECH LUST! 41MP phone? Phone with projector built in (DAMN YOU! Bill Gates, for successfully marketing PowerPoint!)….LOL
Anyone else see this?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bradley-manning-nominated-nobel-peace-prize_631996.html
Disappointed, a little sickened, but hardly surprised…
Give who gives those lollipops out, it’s not a bit surprising.