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Here I have to agree with you, but not only for the reasons you have listed. A major component of the flying squirrel's equipment is a large, bushy articulated tail. A flying squirrel uses it as a counterbalance and as a rudder to maintain stability in his glide. Even if a skydiver were to add a tail to his wingsuit for balance, he would not be able to control side to side motions; well, he might, if he had amazing sphicter control and well-developed gluteus muscles and was willing to have a butt plug inserted for each flight !
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Yes, but that has gotten me in trouble at least once. We were going to have a POPS record boogie at Skdive Daytona and I asked a gal friend of ours if she was going to be here for it and she went off on my ass about not being anywhere near a POPS member. I remembered then that she was actually the same age as my oldest son, but I swear I never thought she was old! It's just that with rare exceptions, I never think about another skydiver's age.
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Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' in the oven...
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Actually, it was Lewis Grizzard, a fine Southern Gentleman, who penned that line. Forgot my numbers -- 0:1:0 did a fine 2-way hybrid with Lynn for Mom.
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Thank you all for your kind thoughts, wishes and prayers on the loss of my mother. I was most gratified by the people that responded not only with their sympathies but that actually called their mother before or after posting or sending me an email That really made me feel good for you and your mothers!
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While you can, call your mom. I really would like to, but I can't. Got a call from someone I don't even know last night telling me that. I have tickets here to Cats -- her Mother's Day present. She was so looking forward to going and so glad I ws taking her, instead I have to go now and make final arrangements for her. Glad we loved each other and told each other that, I was going to call her today and ask if there was anything I needed to bring alonq when I went to her place tomorrow. It's my place now but I sure didn't want it this soon. I'll talk to you all later. Call your mom and tell her you love her.
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It was in one of Joseph Wambaugh's first books, can't remember which. His name was actually "Tuna Can Tommy", a flasher with a very wide, but extremely short male member.
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OK -- looking at the non-jumping activities page on the web site (http://www.freefall.com), I see that paint ball equipment and faclilites are included in the registration price, only have to buy the paintballs SO -- reviving an old thread from Rec.Skydiving, it looks like this is the year for the first annual Canopy Paintball Tournament! Rules are simple, you must be under canopy to score a kill, the target must also be under canopy. Any one hitting a non-participant will be DQed, so you must identify your target before exiting the aircraft -- no shooting willy-nilly at others under canopy. $5 entry fee. Entry closes on Sunday 4th. Last "surviving" participant wins the pot. Questions, contact me
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[disgusted old phart voice] On the message board, the rates are $275 for elec/water hookup, $295 for full hookup. Dang kids should learn to look for things a'fer they ask dang fool questions. There are 100 of each type site available, pus the overflow RV/camping area, where you can set up if ou want to stay self-sufficient. As for availability, pre-reg starts 1 May, it is first call, first served[/disgusted old phart voice] Come on up and join us!
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Go to the convention web page (www.freefall.com), they have a tournament booking company that has blocks of rooms available in Rantoul and Champaign/Urbana. I'm sure they have taken the Bears game into consideration. Or just tent or RV it and party with the rest of us.
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The Lovely Mother Lynn and I will be driving the house up there for the duration. Come by and have a cold one (or two
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Of all the "big" DZs in FL, I can think of two that have full time beer availability (three when Skydive Daytona was around), the other thing that they have in common is a full time restaurant. At Deland and Sebastian it is indeed up to skdivers to be on their best behaviour, though we tend to police one another as well. Of course there is the WFFC...
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You forgot a "Thwack" -- mustn't forget the vidiot.
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I had a similar experience a couple of years ago, but it was no where near as pleasant. Oh, my AFF instructor was nice enough, and have done a couple jumps with him since, including a nice tracking dive BUT... So there we were, on the 4th of July, my AFF instructor and his current flame, myself and a SL student. I'm putting the student out of the 182, following him, then my JM and his gal are heading upstairs. The DZO told me that the student "had a bit of a problem letting go" on his first jump but should be OK. This is the first time I'm acting as JM with my old instructor aboard, so I'm more than a bit nervous. He'd shown a lot of faith in me and I wanted to show that it had not been misplaced. Get set up for jump run, open the door and ask him if he's ready to skydive, he gives me an enthusiastic "YES!". He puts his feet out with no hestitation, climbs out with no hestitation, responds to the "Hang Strut" without hestitation. One last check and say "Go!" HESITATION. I finally have to climb out on the step and peel his fingers off the strut, get one hand off before the other and his head passes inches under the wheel. I reel in the dope rope and stow it, look back at my instructor and all he says is "Homestead". Student does great under canopy, and apologizes to all for his problem with letting go of the strut. After long talks with me and the DZO, he says if I will go with him again, he knows he can do it. I verify this with the DZO and after refreshers, off we go. This time we have a very experienced jump pilot, and when the student repeats just like the first time as I reach out for him, the pilot stops me and says he will get him off. He does that magic pilot shit and sure, enough, the student's hand comes off the strut. But (and we have this on video) he pulls his hand back from behind himself in the slipstream and regrabs the strut! I pry him off again, and once more he does great under canopy. The DZO says that's it -- if you want to jump, you're going to have to go AFF. The student can't afford to at this time, but says he will. Bottom line, he saves his money, goes to another DZ where he can go out of bigger A/C, also spends lots of time in the tunnel at Orlando and today is a pretty darn good skydiver. Can even chunk a 4-way out of a 182, just don't ask him to touch the strut!
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I don't think this is the forum for an answer like this, funny though it is. Put that sort of thing in Skydiving Talkback and leave this forum for serious discussion, lest HH have your head.
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0:2:0 Did two hybrid jumps with The Lovely Mother Lynn that went wonderfully. She didn't feel like any more, so got me a Guiness, and she had a GoFast 180 -- picked her up and she felt up to another one or two. Damn! I know that one or two Guinesses will not impair me, no one in manifest knew I had had them, but I will not do that to either my DZO, or the pilot; If I fucked up or had an equipment problem and bounced again, I also know that a drug check will be done and my BAC would be a non-zero number and they would be the ones who would be on the carpet even though I was the one who was breaking the BSRs. Still did get to see some people who hadn't been at Deland for a while and met Skymama (nice) so it was a nice weekend.
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FanFUCKINGtastic!
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I hate it when people use this -- the proper statement is "For the love of money is the root of all evil" That is quite a different manner! (Also hate it when someone refers to a lion as "King Of The Jungle" -- the lion is renowned as the King Of The Beasts -- and has not ever lived in the jungle! They live on the savanna, (grasslands), dammit!) We now return you to our regular programming.
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Then you have never been to Deland! By the way, I fixed your post for ya: The ones that are hot I can't land.
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Which Children's Storybook Character Are You?
jceman replied to coconutmonkey's topic in The Bonfire
That's Mr. Potter to you! -
My most stupid? Easy -- Quincy '98 -- Friday evening, helicopter jump, I'd been doing nice carving 90s all week and having some fun swoops under my Spectre 210 (remember I mass 260 plus gear). Well on this jump, I decided to really have a big swooooop. The last group had already headed back to the convention, and I was going to be the first down (big surprise), so I didn't have an audience to perform for, just going to have fun. Yeah, right! There was a regular wind flag and a windblade on the landing hill, nicely perpendicular to the wind line. Perfect setup. I downwinded between them, and from almost the same altitude I had been doing 90s all week I snapped off a 180 toggle hook! As i started my flare, all I could see was dirt -- only got the "F" sound out before impact. The gal that was closest to me in the air said i bounced 3 times. On the first impact I knew my leg was broken, just didn't know if was still attached. At some point I felt my neck sprain, now I didn't know if I would have any motor function if I survived, that is. Came to rest after the fourth impact and realized I was still here, so did inventory. Last thing I checked was my right leg and upon looking in that direction thought "Cool, it's still in my jumpsuit at least!" Bottom line: a shattered femur resulting in all the hardware I still carry, two operations, about $85K in medical bills, four months off work, and 9 months, 1 week and one day on the ground. Doc said he had never seen a femur so badly exploded without many other major injuries; guess it just wasn't my time to die, but I sure tried!
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A friend of mine once remarked to another mutual friend that in his birdman suit he looked "like a well-fed vulture"!
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I am... Wait for it... TA-DAh Sir Galahad, the Pure!
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That's what happens when you get chummy with a rummy, dummy! (Dang, my keys are getting gummy...)
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two points -- first, it is not a beer belly, it is a beer-powered fall rate enhancer; and second, I doubt you can beat mine -- too many years have gone into this enhancer to be second place!