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#18: StraitGate To: Pinguinite (#12)

Interesting. Thanks.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 22:09:53 Reply Private Reply

#19: StraitGate To: Dakmar (#13)

I've seen them only in old fraticide movies.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 22:10:57 Reply Private Reply

#20: Esso To: StraitGate (#19)

...old fraticide movies.

Whites killing Whites?

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 22:15:34 Reply Private Reply

#21: StraitGate To: Esso (#20)

Yep. Sadly.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 22:21:24 Reply Private Reply

#22: Esso To: StraitGate (#21)

Yep.

Holy crap. I can't believe I got that. I hope I don't lose my HoosierHick designation.

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 22:25:18 Reply Private Reply

#23: Esso To: Dakmar (#13)

Can a Solid Wood Airplane Actually Fly???

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 22:42:14 Reply Private Reply

#24: StraitGate To: Esso (#22)

You already lost it when you used "insular" earlier today.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 22:48:40 Reply Private Reply

#25: Esso To: StraitGate (#24)

You already lost it when you used "insular" earlier today.

I hope my self-effacing Hick-Schtick isn't totally shattered.

At least I know how to spell 'numb.'

(Edit) My Merrican ire is rising... NEVER FORGET 9-11 OR J6. HOORAH!

(Edit2) look at the gal @~ 2:36 in the dark blue scrubs. She looks a lot like a gal I used to date, I used to call her Reebok, because she always wore Reeboks. She worked at Hospital City. She also helped my mother take care of my handicapped sister for a long time after we went our own ways. I don't think I've had much contact since my mother died about ten years ago.

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 22:55:00 Reply Private Reply

#26: StraitGate To: Esso (#25)

Well, as several people here are already aware, I'm not really an engineer.

I'm the king of Spain.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 23:05:14 Reply Private Reply

#27: Esso To: StraitGate (#26)

I'm the king of Spain.

Maybe we should establish diplomatic relations then. I'm the dictator of Howland Island and the FBO of the Howland Island International Airport.

Amelia Earhart almost landed here a couple of years ago, but got diverted to ~~Vanuatu~~ Nikumaroro Island, Kiribati or something.

It's tourist season. Bring the family and come see our fabulous day beacon.

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 23:23:29 Reply Private Reply

#28: StraitGate To: Esso, Dakmar (#27)

For some reason that magnificent structure reminds me of the old Kokomo Gas tower.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 23:35:28 Reply Private Reply

#29: Esso To: StraitGate, Dakmar, 4um (#28)

For some reason that magnificent structure reminds me of the old Kokomo Gas tower.

Keep your peckers in your pants fellas. I already claimed the joint (and the Palmyra Atoll which also has an international airport) under the Guano Islands Act.

IT'S ALL MINE!

(Edit) I let Jarvis and Baker Island go, they don't have airports, and I think Midway is contaminated with radiation or chemicals or something, but it does have a sweet airport. I don't want to be greedy.

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 23:40:36 Reply Private Reply

#30: StraitGate To: Esso (#25)

That gal at 2:36 looks like the stray that my wife and I took in for while. Married last year, but still comes to visit us every few weeks. She works in health care now. Cute as a button in scrubs with stethoscope around her neck and exam gloves hanging out of her pockets.

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 23:43:24 Reply Private Reply

#31: StraitGate To: Esso (#29)

You do realize that I command 80% of the Iberian Peninsula, right?

StraitGate posted on 2023-06-22 23:46:25 Reply Private Reply

#32: Esso To: StraitGate (#31)

You do realize that I command 80% of the Iberian Peninsula, right?

You ever hear of Indonesia? Mine.

(Edit) Hey, I like small things, islands are ideal. I don't need Big things to prove my manhood. Little Jimmy speaks for himself. He's always dragging me around.

Esso posted on 2023-06-22 23:49:19 Reply Private Reply

#33: Pinguinite To: Dakmar (#13)

An aerodynamic issue with having the entire engine spin with the prop was that it created enormous gyroscopic forces, making it very difficult to turn in one direction but super easy to turn the other. It was something for pilots to adapt to for WW 1 fighter aircraft.

Pinguinite posted on 2023-06-23 01:36:33 Reply Private Reply

#34: Esso To: Pinguinite (#33)

I never thought about that much. My buddy Jess had a Cessna 310? twin, I suppose the props (rotating mass) counter rotated to mitigate that effect, but his prop weren't probably 500 lbs. each. Turn too sharp, and one wing separates to the left and the other one cuts through the cockpit.

Cessna made a pusher/puller twin-boom recon aircraft (don't remember the designation) during the Vietnam war. I wonder how those props spin?

I hate it when Ecuadorians make me think too much (says the guy who's living in what was supposed to be a storage unit) :P

You're OK, Pin.

Skymaster

That was a cool aircraft. (Next to the P-38 and P-51) The F-5 and T-38 trainer were the best lookin' jets, bar none.

(Edit) One of those vids makes it look like the props counter-rotate, but it could be a shutter speed effect.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 02:21:57 Reply Private Reply

#35: Esso To: Lod (#3)

These are for my Pam...
Your mileage may vary.

I'm so lonely, Dad.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 04:01:24 Reply Private Reply

#36: Esso To: Lod (#3)

Cari's (Ramette's) song...

"I'll never let go
Your hands and
Your heart
Are my home."

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 04:20:08 Reply Private Reply

#37: Esso To: Lod (#3)

5'2" not 9 and blue eyes...

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 04:30:05 Reply Private Reply

#38: Esso To: Lod (#3)

I should probably go to bed, but this is the first time I haven't been in searing pain for awhile...

It's unfortunate. The Covi freaks have killed three of my girlfriends with their clot-shots. I'm so lonely.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 06:10:34 Reply Private Reply

#39: Esso To: Christine (#38)

I got a couple Two-Step lessons in before 'Texting Granny' dusted me off.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 06:20:37 Reply Private Reply

#40: Esso To: All (#39)

HEY EVERYBODY! THE SUN IS COMING UP ON THE SUMMIT CITY!
Strap it on, we're gonna have some fun!

Bananarama Bidet Republic! Fuck your guns, I've got F-16s! AND NUKES!

Fuck you Pacman. We can blow up your house up without even bothering the traffic at FWA - 122nd TFW

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 06:44:40 Reply Private Reply

#41: Esso To: Lod, Pams (#40)

No disrespect, Loddy. I've never met a Pam I didn't love...
My first GF was named Pam. She was A LOT OLDER than me. Hey, I had a driver's license. That makes it OK, right?

Our last assignment. I don't remember where the mission was, I just remember Geo's where we'd leave our cars. I miss you Punk.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 06:59:34 Reply Private Reply

#42: Esso To: Lod, noone2222, 4um (#1)

My neighbor Rudy is kind of MIA

FWIW, Luke Combs was probably about 4 y/o during the VN war.

The song's OK.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 07:28:29 Reply Private Reply

#43: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#6)

Texting Granny irrevocably changed my destiny on 26Nov2013.

Did Granny have her own cell phone in 2013?

Ten years ago I was driving trucks cross country. We didn't have much in the way of cell phones, but some drivers used them. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2023-06-23 07:30:44 Reply Private Reply

#44: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#43)

Did Granny have her own cell phone in 2013?

Yeah, she was texting some earth-shattering news to one of her squirts when she killed me.

My first (Half) day in the hospital exhausted the limits of her insurance.

The MDs told my wife I wasn't going to survive, and if I did, I'd be a braindead invalid.

She filed for divorce the next day. I got clipped for $2 million+.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 07:38:05 Reply Private Reply

#45: Esso To: All (#44)

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 07:46:27 Reply Private Reply

#46: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#43)

My shitbag lawyer wanted to go after granny's crap $10k house in the Meadow Ghetto in New Haven after five years.

It would've cost me more to tear it down than what it was worth. I never saw the gal, I told Blackburn, "End this now!" after five years or so.

I feel bad about what that gal went through. Fucking accidents happen.

Janice whatshername is probably dead by now, and it's my fucking shitbag lawyer's fault.

FWIW, I got $20,000 dollars. I give more away than that every year.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 08:02:35 Reply Private Reply

#47: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#44)

The MDs told my wife I wasn't going to survive, and if I did, I'd be a braindead invalid.
She filed for divorce the next day. I got clipped for $2 million+.

The MDs need to be sued for their incompetence.

Did your ex really clip you for $2 Million+? :-/

BTP Holdings posted on 2023-06-23 08:04:18 Reply Private Reply

#48: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#47)

Did your ex really clip you for $2 Million+?

Yeah, probably a bit more than that. It happens. It's part of the cost of doing business.

You remember the hassle I went through trying to send you money?

It just is what it is, Jim. I love ya man, you can't even get mail. Doubtful I'll ever be rolling through SW Missouri anytime soon.

Nothing against you, man, you need to lose that conservator, ASAFP.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 08:22:57 Reply Private Reply

#49: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#48)

you need to lose that conservator, ASAFP.

There is a way to do it, but I need statement from my primary physician that I am capable of handling my own finances. Then Legal Aid in Joplin will send a lawyer to file on her.

Right now I am waiting for other shoe to drop on retired Conservator's Breach of Fiduciary Duty for opening a CD for $10,000 and short time later a medical bill came in. There was not enough in my account to pay it. She was forced to close CD early and take the penalty.

I am going to get back all the $30 monthly fees she took from me. Then she will be stuck paying court costs on top of it. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2023-06-23 08:32:16 Reply Private Reply

#50: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#47)

My little 48 y/o Godson is getting sued by Goldman-Sachs over a predatory loan. That happens. I guess it's $7k. penalties are about $50k.

Lawyer time, $4k. It just fucking is what it is.

Yeah, right.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 08:34:50 Reply Private Reply

#51: titorite To: Lod (#0)

my fairy tail did not go the same way.

titorite posted on 2023-06-23 08:51:41 Reply Private Reply

#52: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#49)

Jim, quit fuckin' around. I'll send your lawyer a $1,000 to get this gig rolling to get your freedom back.

I'm not going to talk about this in the clear anymore.

Pacman

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:00:04 Reply Private Reply

#53: Esso To: titorite, 4um (#51)

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:02:53 Reply Private Reply

#54: Esso To: All (#53)

I got hit, I went down, I'm pretty sure I took off a part of a portable cement mixer with my head.
The guy who hit me made the mistake of looking to see if I was dead. I wasn't. I blew off his face with a low recoil, frangible .38 round.
I was down, he was down. He was in worse shape. Ugly stuff. Lotta blood.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:15:18 Reply Private Reply

#55: Esso To: All (#54)

Yeah, slutty little girls are cool...

I open doors for people I don't know.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:21:09 Reply Private Reply

#56: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#55)

I wanted to dance with a cute gal...

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:28:51 Reply Private Reply

#57: Esso To: All (#56)

This one's for Pam. She's ben gone since 2008.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 09:34:23 Reply Private Reply

#58: Lod To: Esso, StraitGate, Dakmar, Pinguinite, all (#41)

Thanks for the great read this morning, I look forward to now reading the rest of the thread.

Lod posted on 2023-06-23 10:10:59 Reply Private Reply

#59: Esso To: All (#57)

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 10:23:58 Reply Private Reply

#60: Esso To: Lod (#58)

Love you, Dad.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 10:27:25 Reply Private Reply

#61: Esso To: Lod (#58)

I look forward to now reading the rest of the thread.

You know me and chicky-poos...

I certainly loved those creatures formally known as women...

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 10:37:08 Reply Private Reply

#62: Esso To: Lod (#0)

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Good job, Dad. I guess you're not the only lonely fella.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 11:19:54 Reply Private Reply

#63: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#58)

Thanks for the great read this morning, I look forward to now reading the rest of the thread.

BS, I'm sittin' here in the secret airbase feelin' sorry for myself.

I've never been lonely like I am now.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 11:28:56 Reply Private Reply

#64: Esso To: Lod (#58)

I look forward to now reading the rest of the thread.

Hey, some of the airplane shit was cool.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 11:33:31 Reply Private Reply

#65: Esso To: All (#64)

The fuck was probably about four when VN was going on...
Good song nonetheless.

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 11:37:15 Reply Private Reply

#66: Esso To: Chrissy (#65)

Come dance with me, hon. I'm not much to look at anymore, but I like dancing...

(Edit) We'd have the coolest guns at Spudz! Love you, Chrissy!

Esso posted on 2023-06-23 11:43:26 Reply Private Reply

#67: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#1)

In the late 70s when I lived on NW side of Chicago, these four girls had their birthdays in November. They rented a mansion out in the suburbs. I drove the truck out there with the band in back.

I was sitting around and one of the girls came running, "Cowboy, there's a fight by the beer bar."

I went over there and people were standing on chairs beating on each other. I started to wade into the crowd. I grabbed one guy by his right arm. He tried to turn on me to the left. I grabbed his left arm. He slipped because the floor was wet and I threw him down with a crash.

Everyone looked at me and I pointed while hollering, "Cool it, right now!"

They said, "It's cool."

The guy I threw down was apologizing to me the rest of the night.

I suppose that is how I got started in security. ROTFLOL

Some pretty good recall after the meningitis wiped out so much memory. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2023-06-23 19:59:57 Reply Private Reply

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Published:	Jun 22, 2023
Author:	Whisperin' Bill Anderson - singer
Post Date:	2023-06-22 15:59:34 by Lod
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