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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:26:08 AM   
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On that note I am going to bed

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:26:48 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:37:12 AM   
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I'll guess Texas Js are doughnuts, but thats just a WAG.

You are close, O son of Sviatoslav.

The classic way of making Texas Js is to get your rod pointed uphill, then take your foot off the brake to let 'er start rolling down. Then, you jam the tranny into "drive" and hit the gas. You start burning rubber on the way down, then the rear end slides one way or the other (depending on how your differential is arranged), and you smoke 'em off as you accelerate back up the hill.

Unless you're my old buddy Stever "J." Texas Js were his specialty, and he had the perfect car for it, a 1952 Merc. One night, we were on "Presbyterian Hill" (so named for the Presbyterian church at the top), and he decided to lay down a pair of Js. Got 'er rollin' back, slammed the shift into drive and hit the accelerator.

Tranny wound up sittin' on the pavement. Cops came. It was my old man, who was chief of police at the time.

Oops.

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My sup at GEICO had a story about his friend in HS who lived accross the street from an elementary school. One day, he decided to take shortcut through the school in his Stingray Corvette and do some doughnuts in the parking lot. He melted so much rubber that he left a trail from the lot right into his driveway. Someone at the school called the cops.

Great car, the 'Vette. The editor of the newspaper for the little town I grew up in had one. Nice '64 model he kept in mint condition. Unfortunately, he had two other things: a feisty, jealous wife and a 16-year-old girlfriend.

Wifey "bushwhacked" 'em on a lonely country road one night. Tore into all that fiberglass with a ball peen hammer.

< Message edited by pasternakski -- 2/26/2010 3:59:16 AM >

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:39:24 AM   
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No, a thousand times no! Thread have mercy, please


That'll scare the crap out of any bacilli you've managed to ingest....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:47:15 AM   
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You are close, O son of Sviatoslav.


I actually have closer relation to the likes of David and Abraham, but I take you meaning.

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Wifey "bushwhacked" 'em on a lonely country road one night. Tore into all that fiberglass with a ball peen hammer.




BTW, what did you old man say? Smacked the lot of you upside the head and drove off?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 3:56:11 AM   
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Hey, you know, Cynthia probably makes good cornbread.

This chick couldn't cook her way out of a wet paper bag, Illusory Canals Man, but she has a certain way of bringing the old water to a boil anyway...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:26:00 AM   
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not all of us can be as brilliantly successful in our careers as you are.

Hah! Shows how much you know, Lost Tribesman. Actually, I'm a dismal failure. When I graduated from high school, dear old Ma asked me what I was gonna do next. When I told her I was going to college, she rolled her eyes and said, "What do you want to do that for? You get around pretty good, you ought to get a job driving a truck."

So, not only did I become a damned lawyer, I turned into one of them "perfessers," you know, an educated idiot.

I only got revenge on Ma once. I was seeing a chick named Teresa who was about 5'10" and so dark she almost didn't reflect light. One day, she was wearing this particularly hot outfit consisting of a black bustier, black spandex shorts and a translucent white chiffon poofy miniskirt. I asked her if she wanted to meet my mom. She said, "Sure, baby."

Heeheehee. It was the greatest. Ma didn't know whether to sh1t, spit or say maybe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:38:30 AM   
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Hah! Shows how much you know, Lost Tribesman. Actually, I'm a dismal failure. When I graduated from high school, dear old Ma asked me what I was gonna do next. When I told her I was going to college, she rolled her eyes and said, "What do you want to do that for? You get around pretty good, you ought to get a job driving a truck."

So, not only did I become a damned lawyer, I turned into one of them "perfessers," you know, an educated idiot.


Thats pretty good in given my background. My parents are still sitting there expecting me to go for a PhD in History like I've always wanted to and I havent the heart to tell them that theres not a chance in hell that'll ever happen.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:41:55 AM   
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At least I havent sunk half a million into an MBA and hated it.

Yeah, you know? As I was graduating from college, I was a little worried about what I should do next to make a living and how my spiffy new degree would help me, so I went to see my faculty advisor for - well - some advice.

Now, this hoser was the son of a guy who owned a string of lumberyards and had more money - and 2x4s - than god. He sits me down, takes a look at my transcript and says, "Well, you've got a nice artsy-fartsy education here. Have you thought about foraging?"

I wound up in the Air Force. I wish I coulda been a bomber pilot. I woulda annihilated the b@stard.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:48:10 AM   
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a PhD in History like I've always wanted to

Old friend, I think a "Ph.D. in history" is what you earn because you love studying history, but you've got to have practical credentials instead that will "feed the bulldog."

I have to confess that I've been very lucky, earning a living in subjects and pursuits that I enjoy anyway. It's kind of like being a wargamer and finding a place like this where you can go hang out and be a supercilious, phony @$$hole.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:52:30 AM   
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a PhD in History like I've always wanted to

Old friend, I think a "Ph.D. in history" is what you earn because you love studying history, but you've got to have practical credentials instead that will "feed the bulldog."

I have to confess that I've been very lucky, earning a living in subjects and pursuits that I enjoy anyway. It's kind of like being a wargamer and finding a place like this where you can go hang out and be a supercilious, phony @$$hole.


Thats about 70% of why I'll probably never do it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 4:54:01 AM   
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At least I havent sunk half a million into an MBA and hated it.

Yeah, you know? As I was graduating from college, I was a little worried about what I should do next to make a living and how my spiffy new degree would help me, so I went to see my faculty advisor for - well - some advice.

Now, this hoser was the son of a guy who owned a string of lumberyards and had more money - and 2x4s - than god. He sits me down, takes a look at my transcript and says, "Well, you've got a nice artsy-fartsy education here. Have you thought about foraging?"

I wound up in the Air Force. I wish I coulda been a bomber pilot. I woulda annihilated the b@stard.


So you suggest I go ask Uncle Sam for some butter bars?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:02:56 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:08:54 AM   
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So you suggest I go ask Uncle Sam for some butter bars?

Heehee. I tell ya, that 2LT thing is tough. Everybody thinks you're some just-out-of-college moron who is just begging to get messed with.

My first assignment out of OCS was in San Angelo, Texas, a nowhere if there ever was a nowhere. I reported to the guard station at the complex for in-processing. This S.P. airman 2nd class says to me, "Now, Lieutenant, you see that building over there?" He was pointing at a low, shack-like place about 50 yards away inside the compound, which was mostly sagebrush and sand. "That's where you sign in and get your I.D."

"Thanks, corporal," I said (god help me, I called him a corporal), trying to sound stiff and officer-like, and off I went, walking confidently and calmly.

Turns out it was the women's latrine - as I discovered when I opened the door and walked in ... unexpectedly ... with no badge to prove that I was legitimately in a secure area ...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:10:40 AM   
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Butter bars are overrated.

There's a colonel of truth to that, but at least they don't make you a major PITA.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:11:59 AM   
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Oh, Solli's a PITA. Just ask him.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:12:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very good, Pas. I need to drop by here more often. By the way, right now I am a major PITA.

I recall reading that you were soon to be in the market for a new place to hang your hat. Where did you end up?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:26:40 AM   
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Very good, Pas. I need to drop by here more often. By the way, right now I am a major PITA.

I recall reading that you were soon to be in the market for a new place to hang your hat. Where did you end up?

Yeah, Major Mike, nice to "see" you again. Last time we spoke, I thought there was some prospect of your becoming a bearer of the silver oak leaf...?

My end is still up in the air, actually. I had a retirement place on Crete, but there were some entanglements with government finance that caused me, in the face of the country going belly up, to liquidate and get the hell out (now I know how the Brits felt in '41). Fortunately, I pretty much broke even, but I'm left with a new challenge of finding where I want to live when I finally settle into retirement.

While that was going on, I accepted an invitation from my old law school in Californy to develop a new curriculum for teaching professional responsibility, based on work I had done and published over the past several years. The project is coming to a close now, and I am about to be unemployed and homeless! Help, help, I'm being repressed.

Two fellow veterans and I are setting out this spring for the delights of the Pacific (as Lewis & Clark reported, "Never was a body of water so ill named"), and I drop them off one by one as the summer progresses, until I find myself alone with my saily-type boat and plenty of dough with noplace to go.

I'll take it from there and report back when I get to wherever in the heck "noplace" turns out to be.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 5:54:30 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 8:23:45 AM   
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Good morning!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 8:36:29 AM   
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Its friday!!!!!!

Too bad, i have to be in the office tomorrow

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 8:38:16 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 8:56:54 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 9:01:04 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 11:31:18 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 12:10:40 PM   
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Oh goodie, another tank vs tank thread. ****ING IDIOT!


Ahh... well.. it was bound to happen sooner or later...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 12:30:21 PM   
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I forgot to tell you guys.........I managed to catch pneumonia again


Dang, Bruce. You need to give up that habit.

Get well soon, buddy!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 12:45:30 PM   
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It's kind of like being a wargamer and finding a place like this where you can go hang out and be a supercilious, phony @$$hole.


There's a lot to be said for doing what you love!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 12:49:06 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/26/2010 12:50:12 PM   
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I'm looking for a hard fought victory for the US team over Finland, and a rematch with Canada on Sunday for the gold medal.


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