Chef Jim Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Considering your troubles with the FBI, I don't blame you. But I would probably suggest using different terminology while you're under federal scrutiny. Loaded?? Considering your troubles with the FBI, I don't blame you. But I would probably suggest using different terminology while you're under federal scrutiny. Cocked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Loaded?? Cocked? Probably safer. Maybe "three sheets to the wind"? Though if you say that the FBI might think you have a yacht... which would only compound your issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Probably safer. Maybe "three sheets to the wind"? Though if you say that the FBI might think you have a yacht... which would only compound your issues. I am Elmer J. Fudd millionaire. I own a mansion und a yacht. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Furry Balls Plopped Menacingly on the Table Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The SBD sank more Japanese ships than any other plane. I took a pic of one when I was 9 at the Smithsonian but its no long on display there. I saw one at the Geneseo air show in the nineties and it was gigantic! You know you have issues when you get involved in a hijack of your own thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 After some contemplation, I am sure that the Lancaster reference was to discuss everyone's favorite Amish dish. Best Amish Food in Lancaster County! I'm going with Bean Soup.............Mmmmmmmmmmmmm I spent a summer in Lancaster, PA earning college money by working for a guy who owned a pig roast concession stand. Took it all over the NY and PA to summer fairs, roasting whole pigs and selling pork sandwiches at $8 a pop. The summer would end near my hometown for the German Alps Festival in Hunter, NY. Did you know the Amish had a buggy specifically for courtin' women? Those Amish were cool people when it came to getting the babes, but not as cool as the guys who did slap dancing in lederhosen. Wait. What were we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I thought it was about the Lancaster City F.C. I thought it was about Lancaster Steve. Haven't seen him around in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Wait. What were we talking about? Pig sammiches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The SBD sank more Japanese ships than any other plane. I took a pic of one when I was 9 at the Smithsonian but its no long on display there. I saw one at the Geneseo air show in the nineties and it was gigantic! It was there last time I was there. I gave an impromptu lecture on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 In Hamilton , Ont they have a WW2 museum at Mt. Hope airport and they used to take the Lancaster up and they flew over from time to time. What stuck with me the most was the bass like noise that went right through you. I could only imagine what it was like when you had a few hundred of those things flying over dropping bombs. Had to out of this world fear. http://www.warplane.com/ Worse than that...imagine a few hundred flying over, with flak going off (and shrapnel raining down on your head - flak shells exploded, and the shrapnel had to go somewhere), And outside of searchlights and occasional flares (used by Bomber Command as sky markers), you can't see a damned thing. Just a cacophony of noise in the dark. Then the "cookies" start going off, and the incendiaries making a rattling noise as they hit the ground, or your roof... Night bombing by Bomber Command was unbelievably horrific. There's recorded instances, after the Hamburg firestorm, of rescue workers having to shoot people who ran across streets to escape the flames and got stuck in the melted asphalt, and couldn't be saved. Nuking Hiroshima was more merciful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Worse than that...imagine a few hundred flying over, with flak going off (and shrapnel raining down on your head - flak shells exploded, and the shrapnel had to go somewhere), And outside of searchlights and occasional flares (used by Bomber Command as sky markers), you can't see a damned thing. Just a cacophony of noise in the dark. Then the "cookies" start going off, and the incendiaries making a rattling noise as they hit the ground, or your roof... Night bombing by Bomber Command was unbelievably horrific. There's recorded instances, after the Hamburg firestorm, of rescue workers having to shoot people who ran across streets to escape the flames and got stuck in the melted asphalt, and couldn't be saved. Nuking Hiroshima was more merciful. Whenever people bang the drums of war I wonder if they really know what they are asking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Whenever people bang the drums of war I wonder if they really know what they are asking for.Usually they are asking for a cakewalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Usually they are asking for a cakewalk No, usually they are asking for an action movie, because they're expecting a cakewalk. Americans - thanks to the Air Force - think you can do surgery with high explosives. Americans think attacking with a heavy corps from Kuwait to Baghdad is no different from driving to the grocery story, and consider it a failure if you have to stop for gas. Americans think it's criminal negligence when, if you shoot tons of **** into the air, some of it doesn't go where you originally wanted (little known fact: in WWII, Allied commanders planned for 10% friendly fire casualties in any operation. In New Guinea, they planned for 30%.) Another little known fact: imagine an island with a million people, defended with 100k soldiers, invaded it with 200k soldiers. Kill 250k of those people, then bury them in the mud for three months. Then destroy the sewer system, and have the surviving million defecate in the open for three months. That's the battle of Okinawa - a quarter-million bodies and three months' worth of a million people's **** rotting in the mud. You talk to any veteran of a major battle, and they'll tell you the worst memory of the battle wasn't combat or fear of death so much as it was the omnipresent smell of **** and the personal degradation of living in that absolute level of filth. Americans (Westerners in general, at this point) think Saving Private Ryan was brutally realistic. It doesn't even start to approach realistic until you're up to your neck in a septic tank watching it on a loop for a week. People, in general, are thoroughly clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 It was there last time I was there. I gave an impromptu lecture on it. I remember! You were saying how they were the best aero planes to fly off of aircraft carriers and everyone walked away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I remember! You were saying how they were the best aero planes to fly off of aircraft carriers and everyone walked away. Only because you somehow getting your head stuck in the urinal was far more fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Only because you somehow getting your head stuck in the urinal was far more fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Yes! Tom made a funny! Only because you somehow getting your head stuck in the urinal was far more fascinating. Well, anything happening is generally more fascinating than what you have to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Well, anything happening is generally more fascinating than what you have to say. You really suck at witty repartee. You suck at it so badly, it pains me to even acknowledge it as an attempt at witty repartee. Could you possibly be any worse at it? It was merely curious until maintenance saw him and said "Oh no, not again." Then you couldn't tear people away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 It was merely curious until maintenance saw him and said "Oh no, not again." Then you couldn't tear people away. Haven't you told him that those minty cakes aren't for eating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Haven't you told him that those minty cakes aren't for eating? I can verify that. Those things taste like piss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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