Lee03

Ouch is right! I hope she wasn't hurt, but you have to admit, watching it, it did look pretty funy. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Seems like I've seen this somewhere before, but no thanks, I prefer not touching flies..nasty creatures. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Neatly trimmed is very pretty, to me.

I would suggest Charleston as well. Beautiful place, with lots to do. I was stationed there once, was a great duty station until the bastard, klinton, closed all the bases and the shipyard down. Some of the places you might want to check out, Patriot's Point. Tour the World War II aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, the World War II destroyer U.S.S. Laffey, the submarine U.S.S. "Clamagor" and the S.S. Savanna, the world's only nuclear powered ocean liner. All are on display at Patriot's Point. Go down to "The Battery" in Charleston. Take a tour of Fort Sumter. Somewhere around Charleston, the C.S.S. Hunley is on display. They salvaged her a year or two ago. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship, this occured in Charleston Harbor during the War Between the States. Charlestown Landing is also nice. These are just a few of the things that there are to do in Charleston. Go there and your will have fun. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

probably not. whatelse is there to do? -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Nothing much surprises me anymore. I don't doubt this story one bit. I've lost the ability to be surprised. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

no thanks, I'll stick to skydiving! -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

"If any of you yokels touched my controls (and you know which ones I mean) without my consent I'd ban your happy ass from my plane...a long time ago in another life I was a PP SEL. NO SCREWING WITH THE AIRCRAFT, JACKALS. YOUR LIFE IS IN THE PILOT'S HANDS UNTIL YOU EXIT." I agree with HRHSkyPrincess here. If I'm the Pilot in Command, flying the plane, I am responsible for everyone aboard the plane, as well as for the plane itself! I am concentrating on the job of flying the plane, I don't need someone in the right seat, playing around, fucking with any of the controls. When I'm flying right seat (co-pilot) I don't bother the PIC, I let him do his job, and I assist him in any that I can. If any of you are actually doing this, (I assume that you all are kidding around about this, hopefully none of you are serious) regardless of how minor and harmless you think something might be, what if you do something that causes a problem. Let it happen, if I'm flying the plane, and it will be the last time your ever allowed to get aboard a plane that I am flying! -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Congrats on getting the job of your dreams. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

I would have to say yes. Many, many jobs have been sent out of this country due to NAFTA. These are jobs that many, now unemployed, would have been employed in, had they not been sent outside the country. I never was much of a Ross Perot (sp) fan, but he was right about this, back in the 90's when it was signed into being, "the giant sucking sound that you hear, is the sound of U.S. jobs leaving the country!" -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

I dress to the left. Everything in the military is done to the left. Habit I picked up due to 20 years on active duty. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

God, she's cute, She's precious. Congratulations

I'm sorry. I know how you feel. I have had the same thing happen to me on three different occasions in the past. It was for the Marine Corps Birthday Ball all three times. Once, the date cancelled the day of the ball, the other two times it happened the day before, hey, at least it happend three days in advance for you. I Know what you feel man, "been there, done that, got the t-shirt." Hopefully you can find a date before the ball. If not, just go to the ball, get you a bottle of whatever adult beverage you prefer, pull up a chair, sit back and watch the festivities and get drunk. Thats what I did each of those three times, and guess what? It didn't bother me what had happened, because I didn't care. Word of advise though. Make sure that you have someone to drive you home, a DUI in today's military will ruin a career, and you haven't even gotten started yet. Drink, but drink responsibly. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

"Being really alone and lonely must really suck." As one who is, and speaking from experience, yes it does. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

The rocket motor in this thing sounds much like the rocket motor that powered the German rocket interceptor, the Me-163 "Komet" of WW II. It too used Hydrogen Peroxide as fuel. Two fuels, T-Stoff and B-Stoff (maybe wrong on the letter, could have also been K-Stoff, but there were two fuels that were mixed to provide the thrust/propulsion). These were prone to viloent explosions, and the one fuel, not the Hydrogen Peroxide, but the other one was extreamly dangerous, it would dissolve unprotected skin on contact. Special precautions had to be used just to fuel.refuel the plane. If this is indeed the same type of motor in the kart, i'm not so sure I would want to go zipping along the ground with a bomb strapped to my back -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

What is a war hero? Good question. I'll try to give the perspective of someone who has been to war. I'm not a hero, I fought because it was my job, my duty, if you will, to fight. Mostly, I fought to stay alive and to keep my buddies around me alive. I did my job. I have several medals, but these don't make me a hero, A hero, to me is the guy that made the surpream sacrifice, that gave his life fighting along side and for his buddies. The heros are the ones that are still there and that will never come home. I don't think that the individual that has to stand up and proclaim that he is a hero in a display of "look at me, I'm a war hero", or for political gain, ala la John Kerry, is a hero. This is only a individual that is interested in himself and perverts the very meaning of the word hero. Yeah, he may have performed deeds considered heroic, and may have gotten medals in the process of these deeds, but he is not a hero, just a braggard. The real heros are the guys that went and did their jobs, the ones like Skymama's dad, or the friends and /or family members of the various members of this forum, that have gone to war, and the various members here that have done, or are still doing their jobs, in harms way over there, and countless ones like them. They are also the heros. Also, the ones that performed tasks above and beyond the call of and line of duty, and never tried to get recognision for what they did. They get medals, like Purple Hearts, Silver Stars, etc, but don't go bragging or advertising the fact. Heros are humble, not boastful braggards! Ask a real hero if he is a hero, and he will tell you no, that he is not. He doesn't consider himself a hero, just a person that did his job. These, to me are real war heros. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Don't know. There have been many that have claimed to be the most controversial ever, but which one is, I don't know. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Saw it. Pretty good show, pretty good footage. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

1. soap oprahs. can't understand how anyone could like those. 2. spiders as pets. cannot see how those things can be pets. 3. cold weather. can't understand how anyone would enjoy freezing temps. these things are not for me, but to each his own, I guess. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

I had one like that many years ago, why I don't know. hadn't had it for years now. Probably perfectly normal, and nothing to worry about. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Not allot of anything, I know what I have to do, and I just do it. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Last night, I had a dream that I was jumping out of a CASA 212. My first jump was from a CASA, and I know that there are plans to have a CASA at my dz three times this year. Anyway, we were altitude, the ramp way lowered, myself and another jumper were on the ramp. I did a backflip of the ramp and started falling, belly to earth. I did a couple of backloops, and turns on the way down, checking altimeter per the normal, nothing unusual, I notice the ground is like 1000 ft and rushing up very fast! I frantically reach to pull the pilot chute, oddly enough I notice the airport runway, and I hit the ground! I hit just before the beginning of the runway. I feel no pain, actually feel no different than normal. Several jumpers that I know walk toward me and I get up and start walking toward them. At this point, I wake up. This dream has been on my mind all morning. I can't get it off of my mind. It's weird, it's kind of scary. I don't know what, if anything, to make out of it. Any thoughts on this? Has anyone had dreams of a similar nature? -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Hell, I'm working on making my second Billion $!

Nice, but I'll pass. I don't like cold weather, or being cold, and that is one cold place where this thing is located. -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

Seems anything that is eaten now days is unhealthy! -------- To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. --Nevil Shute, Slide Rule