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RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:26 am
by 1EyedJacks
ORIGINAL: Big B
ORIGINAL: 1EyedJacks
Anyone up for a polite game of cards? <laughter> I once won a pink slip to a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere with a pair of aces and two one-eyed Jacks. The guy's name was SSG Rudolph Semore and he was some put out over losing to a "Gawd Damned punk-ass PF-f*king-C." So I was nicked with "Jacks" by my platoon.
Anyway - I've always been fond of one-eyed jacks and suicide kings it makes the game interesting.
My Gawd! tell me it wasn't a 426" Hemi Belvedare! Those are worth some buck$!
<Laughter> Nope - a 4 door sedan. It was still a fun ride and the car was in pretty good condition. I slapped in some chrome fluff under the hood, re-did the interior, and put in a killer Kenwood tape deck with an amplifier and 8 speakers... I kept her for about 18 months and then traded her straight-up for a 1978 4X4 Toyota Land Cruiser with an electric winch on the front and a PTO conversion kit. Talk about a sweet off road vehicle - me and my toy could go almost anywhere. It's amazing what you can do with a winch and an anchor...
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:06 am
by afspret
Retired US Air Force Security Police.
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:15 am
by AW1Steve
[X(] I am shocked , shocked and appalled! It's come to my attention that some of you newbies haven't told us about yourselves! And some of you oldsters haven't explained avatars, sig lines etc. Don't be shy , this is the thread where we get to know you. And if you don't tell us I'm going to keep reserecting this thread until you do!!! If you want this thread to die a natural death , fess up. Or else! [:D]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:28 am
by wdolson
I just changed the sig on mine because I went back to the Evergreen Museum with a better camera. Among other things, they have the only Curtiss Demon in existence. The Spruce Goose is in the background of both pictures. That thing is so big there is a titan missile, an SR-71, and several other jets all parked under one wing with room to spare.
BTW Steve, my when my SO started her law practice, I suggested the motto should be "carpe dime".
Bill
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:52 am
by histgamer
My name is Flanigan and flanyboy was a nickname my sis made up for me so there ya go... My password is more historical and related to someone I truely admire as a historian but I supose you will all have to guess at that.[:D]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:15 am
by bradfordkay
Geez... Bradford is my middle name and Kay is my last name. I go by Brad, but apparently I used the login bradkay here at Matrix ages ago under an earlier ISP and couldn't use it again.
I use my name in hopes that some of my high school or college gaming chums might see it and contact me. No joy after all these years (where ARE you, Upper?).
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:23 am
by TOMLABEL
Well, I made it up on the spur-of-the-moment when I was sending stuff to Rogue's site for the first time. I hadn't registered on the forum yet, but he needed a name to post it under. It's a combo of my middle and last name - Thomas LaBelle.
Gosh, it's hard to believe that it was almost 2 years ago! Where has the time gone? See what this game has done?![X(]
TOMLABEL
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:25 am
by Mynok
A mynock is a space parasite from Star Wars. Figured no one else would want that handle.
The truth is I'm from Mars and was ensnared by a female earthling. Now I work for the Martian foreign service monitoring implants. When strange thoughts happen in your brain......that's us! [:D]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:48 am
by AW1Steve
Did she take your advice? Our crew motto stems from the tradition that Navy Patrol plane crews use to go to places where they received MAXIMUM per diem and were FORCED to do things like stay in hotels. Obviously Navy squadrons who go to ships , don't get much per diem. As a result , other type Navy squadrons would refer to P-3's as "Cadillac duty". It became a regular punch-line. When my crew did an exercise at the "Top-gun " school at Mirramar in the late 80's , we were feeling intimidated by all these hotshots in their F-14's , F-18's and F-5's , and we had our slow moving propellor driven sky-pig. The patrol plane commander broke the feeling by saying , "They may have TOP-GUN , but we've got PER DIEM CHECK , and you don't get good Per diem on the boat". We all felt better after that and adopted the motto.
ORIGINAL: wdolson
I just changed the sig on mine because I went back to the Evergreen Museum with a better camera. Among other things, they have the only Curtiss Demon in existence. The Spruce Goose is in the background of both pictures. That thing is so big there is a titan missile, an SR-71, and several other jets all parked under one wing with room to spare.
BTW Steve, my when my SO started her law practice, I suggested the motto should be "carpe dime".
Bill
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:24 pm
by wdolson
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Did she take your advice? Our crew motto stems from the tradition that Navy Patrol plane crews use to go to places where they received MAXIMUM per diem and were FORCED to do things like stay in hotels. Obviously Navy squadrons who go to ships , don't get much per diem. As a result , other type Navy squadrons would refer to P-3's as "Cadillac duty". It became a regular punch-line. When my crew did an exercise at the "Top-gun " school at Mirramar in the late 80's , we were feeling intimidated by all these hotshots in their F-14's , F-18's and F-5's , and we had our slow moving propellor driven sky-pig. The patrol plane commander broke the feeling by saying , "They may have TOP-GUN , but we've got PER DIEM CHECK , and you don't get good Per diem on the boat". We all felt better after that and adopted the motto.
Not completely. She was doing bankruptsies when the laws changed and that threw her practice into a tailspin for a while. The new bankruptsy law passed two years ago is one of the worst pieces of legistlation congress has ever passed. It contradicted itself right and left and in at least one place lawyers would need to violate their own code of ethics to be compliant with the law. After two years of being in court, the worst written bits have either been thrown out or modified to make sense, so she's getting back into it.
What she's concentrating on now is going after creditors who are violating the law. It happens a lot after a bankruptsy, but also happens at other times. The law is very specific about the behavior of collection agencies and how certain debts are supposed to be worded when completed in a credit report. Few lawyers are doing it and the problems are chronic. When she gets spun up doing that, she might start carping a few dimes. We're hoping 2008 will be a better year financially than the last few years have been.
When I worked across the street from Boeing Field, I used to see the Navy P-3s doing touches and goes. I'd see them several times a month. Boeing Field is one of the few civilian airports in the country that is large enough to operate just about any aircraft, but doesn't have scheduled passenger service. That makes it a good place to fly into for training and the military uses it for that purpose.
The military planes were more interesting than the sea of Boeing jets coming and going from flight test. About the only thing interesting about them is seeing some airline liveries that you wouldn't see anywhere else in the US.
Bill
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:37 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: wdolson
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Did she take your advice? Our crew motto stems from the tradition that Navy Patrol plane crews use to go to places where they received MAXIMUM per diem and were FORCED to do things like stay in hotels. Obviously Navy squadrons who go to ships , don't get much per diem. As a result , other type Navy squadrons would refer to P-3's as "Cadillac duty". It became a regular punch-line. When my crew did an exercise at the "Top-gun " school at Mirramar in the late 80's , we were feeling intimidated by all these hotshots in their F-14's , F-18's and F-5's , and we had our slow moving propellor driven sky-pig. The patrol plane commander broke the feeling by saying , "They may have TOP-GUN , but we've got PER DIEM CHECK , and you don't get good Per diem on the boat". We all felt better after that and adopted the motto.
Not completely. She was doing bankruptsies when the laws changed and that threw her practice into a tailspin for a while. The new bankruptsy law passed two years ago is one of the worst pieces of legistlation congress has ever passed. It contradicted itself right and left and in at least one place lawyers would need to violate their own code of ethics to be compliant with the law. After two years of being in court, the worst written bits have either been thrown out or modified to make sense, so she's getting back into it.
What she's concentrating on now is going after creditors who are violating the law. It happens a lot after a bankruptsy, but also happens at other times. The law is very specific about the behavior of collection agencies and how certain debts are supposed to be worded when completed in a credit report. Few lawyers are doing it and the problems are chronic. When she gets spun up doing that, she might start carping a few dimes. We're hoping 2008 will be a better year financially than the last few years have been.
When I worked across the street from Boeing Field, I used to see the Navy P-3s doing touches and goes. I'd see them several times a month. Boeing Field is one of the few civilian airports in the country that is large enough to operate just about any aircraft, but doesn't have scheduled passenger service. That makes it a good place to fly into for training and the military uses it for that purpose.
The military planes were more interesting than the sea of Boeing jets coming and going from flight test. About the only thing interesting about them is seeing some airline liveries that you wouldn't see anywhere else in the US.
Bill
[:D] You forgot the greatest part of Boeing Field , the museum of flight! What an incredible place!When I moved to Bremmerton a little over two years ago , the first thing I did was become a member. That museum is second only to Air in Space. (In my humble opion). But I know what you mean about exotic paint jobs. You never knew what you would see there. [:)]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:39 pm
by Dino
Once upon a time I was a goalie in a football (soccer) game...someone dubbed me Dino (Zoff), and it stuck.
As for the sig, I got that as a bribe in a voting process [:D]...and it wouldn't be right dispose of a gift.
Besides, I really like it...[:)]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:42 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Dino
Once upon a time I was a goalie in a football (soccer) game...someone dubbed me Dino (Zoff), and it stuck.
Why did they dub you Dino?? [&:]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:45 pm
by Dino
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Dino
Once upon a time I was a goalie in a football (soccer) game...someone dubbed me Dino (Zoff), and it stuck.
Why did they dub you Dino?? [&:]
Dino Zoff
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:48 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Dino
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Dino
Once upon a time I was a goalie in a football (soccer) game...someone dubbed me Dino (Zoff), and it stuck.
Why did they dub you Dino?? [&:]
Dino Zoff
Awk! i thought Dino was translated into Serbian as "Zoff" ... [:o] [:D]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:44 pm
by RUPD3658
ORIGINAL: Dino
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Dino
Once upon a time I was a goalie in a football (soccer) game...someone dubbed me Dino (Zoff), and it stuck.
Why did they dub you Dino?? [&:]
Dino Zoff
And all this time I thought it wa because of this guy:
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:08 am
by tsimmonds
ORIGINAL: RUPD3658
ORIGINAL: Dino
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Why did they dub you Dino?? [&:]
Dino Zoff
And all this time I thought it wa because of this guy:
That's the only Dino
I ever knew.
"Dino is my dinosaur; his head's in the kitchen, his tail's out the door!"
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:17 am
by RUPD3658
I frequently reference Dino (the purple one) when teaching pursuit tactics to recruits. I stress trying not to sound like Dino when talking on the radio: "Bowrowrowrowrow!"[:D]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:19 am
by tsimmonds
[:D][:D]
Funny, when I made my post earlier, I was wondering how to spell that.[;)]
RE: So whats your log-in all about?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:23 am
by RUPD3658
I have a .wav file in in my powerpoint presentaion.[:D]