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5 hours ago, DC Tom said:
........then ask a naval aviator about the Air Force, then ask an Air Force officer (check the golf course) about the US Army's establishment of the USAAC. You'll see why they don't get along.
Come on Tom.
They "get along" just fine.
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He also has a longer season than almost any NFL player over the past many years.
No problem at all with it.
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My Father's family had six boys and one girl.
All males served during WWII.
The youngest, who would have been my uncle Jim enlisted on the Fourth of July 1944, after his sophomore year at Niagara.
He was killed near Florence, Italy on the very day the iconic last film of Hitler was made, the one where he is shown with Parkinson's disease, reviewing the Hitler Youth in Berlin.
The sad part, and I didn't find it out until about four years ago when I researched it, was that the German troops he was killed fighting had already surrendered, they just didn't know about it.
The only personal effects the family received was a Canisius High School ring, badly mutilated, and a purple heart.
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Maybe we can just honor what happened there without castigating generations in a no context argument.
The guys who did this deserve whatever accolades they get, the event the attention and respect it gets, and it was an incredible event in pure focus of life, planning and machinery.
As always, it never turns out the way it's planned, and in this case especially at Omaha Beach.
Still, it would never be done that way now, so the "millenials" can't be put into that context, and their behavior projected.
June 6, 1944 was an incredible day that a lot of very young men who did not expect what awaited them counted as their last.
Can we just honor that?
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3 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
I still haven’t ended things with the Brazilian chick. In fact, I think I might set something up for Friday.
Todo bem?
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2 minutes ago, Augie said:
I took Hansel and Gretel to a tailgate ....once.
Too much pot.
Not enough protein.
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34 minutes ago, Augie said:
Met my wife and had our kids on Hilton Head.
'Had our kids," is a bit of odd terminology in a cooking thread," but I got it.
If I didn't, hope they're OK and you stick with the low country boil.
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Low Country Boil.
Easy, good outdoor fun, or indoor in the winter.
Simple ingredients:
Potatoes/sausage/ corn on cob/shrimp/onion/lemon in Old Bay seasoning.
There are others I do that are more complicated, but I've never lost on this one.
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All the chat is moderately interesting, not Simms, but Josh.
But the "tell" is at the end in the attempt to hit the crossbar.
Allen simply snaps the 30 yard throws.
No effort. No time.
Just flicks the throws effortlessly.
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I've been to one at Arlington, the funeral of Chic Burlingame, the captain of America 77 that was smashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
A truly moving experience is to be at the American Cemetery at Colleville-su Mer when they play "Taps" as the US flag is lowered.
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The issue in Florida has never been the temperature.
Many places have higher temperatures.
It is the dew point, which is a measure of moisture in the air, and it is extremely high during the late spring and summer months.
Dew points above 63 get uncomfortable, and Florida's dew points are outrageously high.
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Low country boil is perfect for Memorial Day.
So is the 15 hour pork shoulder on the Primo XL.
Alas, neither is happening here, as my kid is going to come over and do his chicken thing on the grill.
So.....Instead of being a grill maestro, I'll be reduced to a "side."
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My Back Pages with:
Dylan, Clapton, Harrison, Young, McGuin, Petty, Cropper:
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Maybe if they let Wood do interviews with ex Bills he'll get Aaron Maybin.
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I have a couple of memories/experiences at the Niagara Falls airport.
They had a National Guard squadron there that would host me when I was flying in the Navy.
When visiting my family, and later when I was dating a Buffalo gal, I would fly there and they would let me park on their ramp.
One time, over Christmas holiday, and a week before starting a carrier deployment, I went there with the knowledge that there was a strong snow forecast during the two day period I would be there.
Got the OK from the National Guard unit that they would store the airplane in their hangar for the two days.
When I landed, late on a Friday, they said they would tow it in on Sat.
When I called on Sunday, it had not been towed and was told it had quite a bit of snow on it. Since I was leaving the next day it had to be cleaned up.
I got a call at home from some junior watch officer who told me that they had a holiday schedule, and my airplane was not going to be dealt with, and that whomever I talked to wasn't there and my concerns didn't matter.
Called back to my west coast squadron. We were leaving for a WestPac cruise aboard Kitty Hawk, and the airplane needed to be back within 48 hours to be prepared for carrier deployment.
Anyway, calls were made and I got a call at home that the airplane would be ready for my desired departure time.
The other time was more fun.
Again, dating a girl from Buffalo, so I was home for the weekend.
When I got to the base operations at Niagara Falls on Sunday morning to fly home, there were two other military planes preparing. One was an Air Force T-37, which is a tiny twin engine primary trainer, and the other was a T-2, a Navy basic jet trainer.
The National Guard guy who handled our flight plans kind of challenged us to a takeoff competition.
I was flying an A-4 Superfox, with the Pacific Fleet Adversaries, and it was really overpowered.
Anyway, with family and girlfriend witnessing this, along with the folks from the other two airplanes we agreed.
T-37 takes off, does about a 50 degree angle climb and off he goes.
Navy T-2 does a little better, but still nothing impressive.
I take off, get the gear up at about five feet and level off, hit 320 knots at the end of the runway, and pull to the pure vertical. At about 1000' I did a four point roll, where you roll 90 degrees and stop. Did it four times for the full 360 and I was into the overcast.
Tower says, "nice takeoff," and I replied that if anyone complained, (aerobatics in civilian airspace are prohibited), I noticed a flock of birds and had to avoid them.
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The comet was overrated.
Like the Texas saying.....all hat, no cattle.
The wild mouse was the real deal, and ski ball.....Who could forget ski ball?
Those summer nights..........
That aside, I still liked Sherkston better.
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1 hour ago, Marv's Neighbor said:
Use to be Crystal Beach, but I've been gone for a few years.
The Wild Mouse misses you.
For me, its house-boating on Smith Mountain Lake, VA.
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23 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:
And dude I always have at least 6 airplane bottles of jack fire I don’t like takeoff, bumps, and landing... all times no booze cart available. Never fly without them!
If you bring your own, don't get caught.
Quite serious fine.
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I think it's a good idea.
Now, instead of having to bribe people, falsely claim to being a row crew athlete or paying someone to take the SAT for you, all you have to do is get an address in a bad neighborhood to give your kid that extra advantage.
Much less risk of persecution, and a lot cheaper.
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2 hours ago, Tcali said:
played one SB at 238 LBs
Really small.
Watch the Houston comeback game though, and you'll see what a player he was.
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And by the way, and you didn't hear it from me....
Marv Levy used to always "challenge Jim Ritcher to get bigger or end his career.
There would be a weigh in at the start of camp/OTA's whatever.
They would allow you to wear a baseball hat at the weigh in.
Jim's wife used to sew weights into the baseball hat to get Jim a few extra pounds.
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Jim Ritcher was simply not big enough to have the impact to make the HOF, but he certainly made the best of what physical stature he had.
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Simple things that tend to confuse you...
in Off the Wall Archives
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Every morning I put left over coffee in the microwave.
I was always irritated and confuse because when it times out it is always at the back of the microwave with the handle turned out, the most difficult way to retrieve it.
What are the odds?
Finally, I figured it out.
I put the cup in the same way every day, and select the same time setting.
Since it rotates at the same rpm, and I set the same time, it simply has to end up in the same place.
Now......I select four seconds longer.
I have defeated my microwave.
Life is made up of consistent small wins.
Now the Miami Intl airport elevator is a different problem.
If has three floors.
Presumably, one third of the time you select it, it should be at your floor and the door open immediately.
It is never at your floor, no matter which floor you are on, and I have done this thousands of times.
I have given up trying to figure it out.
Miami is just a hateful place to be avoided.