OK Snuffy, New thread... Tell us what is wrong with skydiving today?
Tom Olson
Give us your little diatribe as to what is wrong with Skydiving. While you are at
it, tell us what is wrong with the USPA. And you might as well tell us what is
wrong with Jerry K. while you are at it as well. Explain while your at it why
Jerry has many more jumps than you without a camera as to why you are so much
better than him. Also tell us why you never called while you were in town for
your checkup.
Go ahead and get it all off your chest here in this new thread versus polluting,
then baiting me and others to do the same to threads that are legitimate.
Here is the time, place and invitation. Start rambling,... now!
Tom O
p.s.
Everyone in Beaumont wishes that you would come back. They have not laughed that
hard in a while according to one person out there.
Vedfolnir
>Snuffy,
>
>Give us your little diatribe as to what is wrong with Skydiving.
yawl got to many wants and needs
too many emotions running rampant
too busy fukking over each other for
a piece of the pie, doubt yawl enjoy the
sport as much as we did
>And you might as well tell us what is
>wrong with Jerry K.
Jerrys a closet queer and has trouble
reading might be Adult A.D.D.
Jimbo has a problem with calorie control
and wuz trained by Michael Haucks.....
nuttin we can do about the Tandem Mill
attitude it's come back to bite him though
so there is some justice in the world.
If yawl want more room on the plane
make him put down the twinkee's and pork rinds.
>Jerry has many more jumps than you >without a camera as to why you are so
>much better than him.
#1 I was always smart enuff to git video copys of jumps...he's too dumb to even
dubb his own stuff.
#2 He's a city boy.
>Also tell us why you never called while >you were in town for
>your checkup.
never got to town, they switched me to a Doctor in Polk County.
>p.s.
>Everyone in Beaumont wishes that you would come back. They have not laughed
>that hard in a while according to one >person out there.
>
yuh I always enjoyed entertaining people...
skydiving should be about family fun and laughter ...yew big city people have
bought it to a low in the scramble for money & glory...ya made a job of it ;)P
the old Philosopher
SkydiverRick
>> Also tell us why you never called while >you were in town for
>> your checkup.
>
> never got to town, they switched me to a Doctor in Polk County.
> the old Philosopher
Wouldn't the proper term be veterinarian?
Jerry K.
>> "Tom Olson"
>
>>Snuffy,
>>
>>Give us your little diatribe as to what is wrong with Skydiving.
>
>yawl got to many wants and needs
Such as? What number is appropriate?
>too many emotions running rampant
And you know this having visited which drozpones?
>too busy fukking over each other for
>a piece of the pie,
And you're sure of this based on what?
>doubt yawl enjoy the
>sport as much as we did
Fucking A. We enjoy it more but then, we're not all caught up in the
doodads, waving documentation around to somehow prove our legitimacy,
or even...heh...failing to stand up our jumps on a regular basis.
>
>>And you might as well tell us what is
>>wrong with Jerry K.
>
>Jerrys a closet queer and has trouble
>reading might be Adult A.D.D.
No, it's always been women that's interested me and reading, hell - I
just take your words, no clipping, no teenage troll monkey cut n'
paste routine, and slap a little reality across your mug and that's
what renders them that much more illegible and, of course, that much
more difficult to pay attention to.
>
>Jimbo has a problem with calorie control
>and wuz trained by Michael Haucks.....
Worse than that - JB still skydives.
>nuttin we can do about the Tandem Mill
>attitude it's come back to bite him though
Yeah, still skydiving. God, that's a bitch, eh JB?
>so there is some justice in the world.
Puffed up wannabee with a talent for ignoring the experienced advice
of others crashes into a runway and into a hospital - never to skydive
again. Cruel justice but justice, nonetheless.
>If yawl want more room on the plane
>make him put down the twinkee's and pork rinds.
Cutting slam from someone who never wore weights and needed a floppy
suit just so he could keep his flailing somewhat near the formation.
>
>>Jerry has many more jumps than you >without a camera as to why you are so
>>much better than him.
>
>#1 I was always smart enuff to git video copys of jumps...he's too dumb to even
>dubb his own stuff.
Oh yeah - you got video of your practice plf's off the folding chairs?
Tell me how always getting video of your plf's equates to a greater
ability in the air.
>
>#2 He's a city boy.
Ah, so it's a caste thing. Nothing to do with actual ability but
everything to do with prejudice and assumption.
>
>>Also tell us why you never called while >you were in town for
>>your checkup.
>
>never got to town, they switched me to a Doctor in Polk County.
A likely story. You get video? Bullshit - you were scared your bluff
was going to be called. What a puss.
>
>>p.s.
>>Everyone in Beaumont wishes that you would come back. They have not laughed
>>that hard in a while according to one >person out there.
>>
>
>yuh I always enjoyed entertaining people...
Then you must have really enjoyed that landing.
>skydiving should be about family fun and laughter ...
Skydiving always has and always will be about people throwing
themselves out of aircraft singly, or in groups. Nothing more and
nothing less. Everything else is either icing on the cake or
rhetorical bullshit.
>yew big city people have
>bought it to a low in the scramble for money & glory...ya made a job of it
Dz's have always charged for tickets and people have always sought to
take their own measure. The only jobs in skydiving are jobs where a
service is provided for and agreed upon compensation is delivered.
You see, this as a fixture of today where it was always this way and
it was only when you were spit out of the sport through your own
failures in planning and ability that you hit upon the decline of the
utopia thus making the loss of what you held dear, not such a
significant of a loss. Getting to a dropzone would topple it, your
sand castle of black (but comforting) fantasy. Sour grapes, is all
and it's all you have left so you hold on to it with a grip which only
death (or an open mind) could ever pry loose. As an unmuddied lake,
Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer.
...bsrp
...jlk
Jerry K.
I think the proper term would be Herr Doktor:
...bsrp
...jlk
* * *
<repost>
Snuffie Rejected by Newly Created Bride of Snuffie
Poke County, Texas - Snuffie's quest for a companion to ease the pain
of his lonely and tormented existence was dealt a severe blow Monday,
when he was rejected by the newly created "Bride Of Snuffie."
Unwrapped from bandages at a press conference, the ungodly Bride
twitched grotesquely several times before turning to face her would-be
mate. Reporters in attendance said the Bride recoiled upon setting her
eyes on Snuffie's horribly misshapen visage, letting out a
blood-curdling scream.
"When the lovestruck Snuffie tried to embrace the Bride, she shunned
him, just as the entire skydiving world has shunned him," Fox News
reporter William Hurlbut said. "It was truly tragic."
Despondent, Snuffie roared with despair as all hope of finding a wife
deserted his tortured brain.
"Love... death... hate... living..." Snuffie said.
The heartbroken former skydiver, realizing he could never be loved,
then told reporters, "We belong dead." At that point, he pulled a
giant lever, setting off a fiery explosion that appeared to incinerate
himself and his new Bride, with no trace of either remaining when the
smoke finally cleared.
Confirmed dead in the blast was the Bride's maniacal creator, Dr.
Pretorius, whose demise reporters called "a punishment that befell a
mortal man who dared to emulate God."
Police investigators are working around the clock to determine whether
Snuffie and his unholy Bride are still alive.
"They may have burned up in the fire, but you have to remember that
we're dealing with a creature so horrible that only a half-crazed mind
could have devised it," Poke County Sheriff Charles H. Ramsey said.
"My fear is that she and Snuffie survived the flames and will return
anew to stalk the land in darkness."
Snuffie's quest to find fulfillment with a bride of his own kind first
came to public attention in November 2002, when the Justice Department
released a Yellow Alert announcement reading, "Warning! One of our
ex-Navy morons demands a mate!"
Most scientists were skeptical, explaining that the creation of such a
being-a terrible nightmare from beyond the very pits of Hell
itself-was scientifically impossible. Yet over the next two months, as
Snuffie found himself with increasing power in a steadily increased
amount of usenet posting within a politically correct landscape, he
used his growing number of senseless and mostly unchallenged posts to
secure the confidence for the creation of a mate to call his own.
"Alone... bad," Snuffie told fellow posters on the Usenet on Jan. 23.
"Friend... good."
After a long search, on Feb. 9, Snuffie announced that he had procured
the services of Dr. Pretorius using $200 in funding made available
through the dry-gulching of a lone farmer, shaking down Poke County
widows for a few dollars, here and there, and spare change he found
behind his car-seat. For the next 10 weeks, Pretorius toiled in
secrecy, cracking the secret of life itself by reanimating dead tissue
created from cadavers out of opened graves. Enlisting the help of
other scientists, Pretorius obsessively pursued the goal of creating a
female companion to love the one time "Nationals RW Medal" holder as
no mortal ever could.
Since becoming a "regular" on the usenet in the 1990's, Snuffie has
placed a number of limits on what actually constitutes skydiving even
though he has not made a skydive nor has he even been on a dropzone in
almost four years. Recently, however, Snuffie has also begun to draw
criticism from another sector: angry villagers. Chasing him with
pitchforks, torches, dogs, and hard reality through the foggy streets
of the rec.skydiving newsgroup, irate mobs have emerged in recent
weeks as a substantial obstacle to Snuffie's plans.
"Arrrrrrrrgh!" said Snuffie as he fled one recent mob, while changing
the subject before disappearing into the night.
Since the Bride incident, villager opposition to Snuffie has only
intensified. Said one villager, who insisted on picking through the
smoking press-conference wreckage in search of Snuffie's body: "When I
see his blackened bones, then I can sleep at night."
"Snuffie? I'd hate to find him under me bed at night," another
villager remarked. "He's a nightmare in the daylight, he is."
...bsrp
...jlk
Cloud buster
>and wuz trained by Michael Haucks
And the horse-shit award goes to ........
STUFFY!!!!
Hawkes went through training around the same time as I did. (when he was an ok
guy), and I know Jimbo has been jumping a lot longer'n me.
D
JimBo
>today?
>From: cloud...@aol.com
>Hawkes went through training around the same time as I did. (when he was an
>ok
>guy), and I know Jimbo has been jumping a lot longer'n me.
>
Duke.....chill out...dont confuse the stupid fuck with facts.
Jim D-10154
Man small... why fall ? Skies call... thats all.
Vedfolnir
>Hawkes went through training around the same time as I did. (when he was an
>ok guy),
Bwoooooooohahahahahaha funny
see what being a GM does to ya?
First a GM then a full blown Tandem Mill operator changing laws to suit
yourself,
next the devil hizself?
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
> never got to town, they switched me to >a Doctor in Polk County.
>the old Philosopher
>Wouldn't the proper term be veterinarian?
>
I'd use a vet if I didn't want a gunshot wound reported, their surgery is just
as good and the meds are cheaper,
being kept overnight in a cage sucks thu
& make damn sure you make it clear yer not there to be neutered ;)P
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>Hawkes went through training around the >same time as I did. (when he was an
>ok guy), and I know Jimbo has been >jumping a lot longer'n me.
>
>Duke.....chill out...dont confuse the stupid fuck with facts.
WOW buster thats some references you got there, one tried to highjack the law
and of course the other has knocked over a couple of truck loads of
twinkies...I'd denie association with those two porkers o~;->
the old Philosopher
Joe Walther
"Vedfolnir" <afan...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031202202350...@mb-m28.aol.com...
> >"SkydiverPrick"
>
> >
>
> I'd use a vet if I didn't want a gunshot wound reported, their surgery is
just
> as good and the meds are cheaper,
Walther responds...
Which gunshot wound is that?
> being kept overnight in a cage sucks
Walther responds...
This certainly would not constitute the first time you were kept in a cage!
thu
> & make damn sure you make it clear yer not there to be neutered
Walther responds...
This would probably end up costing you a small fortune given the nature and
high cost of normal microscopic surgery. In your case, I suspect that it
would be near impossible to find a microscope powerful enough to do the job,
though.
Walther
Vedfolnir
>just as good and the meds are cheaper,
>Is that what happened to you Snuffster?
Nah I ain't been hit in none of the hillbilly shootouts up here yet but I
always
got a plan in place! ;)P
the old Philosopher
LORD OF THE SKY
just
> as good and the meds are cheaper,
Which reminds me ,
the other day a Lady I know called me, she had a horse with a broken leg.
Knowing that I had an ample supply of firearms she asked if I would
come over and shoot it .
Now she has a horse with a broken leg and a gunshot wound!
"Treetop" a.k.a. LORD OF THE SKY
Vedfolnir
>I'd use a vet if I didn't want a gunshot >wound reported, their surgery is
>just as good and the meds are cheaper,
>Walther responds...
>
>Which gunshot wound is that?
Don't worry judge the fedaralees kin't shoot straight...the key word was >if<
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>Jerrys a closet quar he wud have a >better attitude if he just fessed up
>and faced himself ;)
>Jimbo has a problem with calorie control
>Worse than that - JB still skydives.
>
In comparrison to what? The goodyear blimp? o~;)
>p.s.
>Everyone in Beaumont wishes that you >would come back. They have not
>laughed
>that hard in a while according to one >person out there.
Yuh my countrfied ways and pure thoughts have that effect on people...the
cityfolk were rolling on the floor and crying at the cingular store down in
Conroe today ;)
the old Philosopher
JimBo
>today?
>From: afan...@aol.com
>Yuh my countrfied ways and pure thoughts have that effect on people...the
>cityfolk were rolling on the floor and crying at the cingular store down in
>Conroe today ;)
A shower might have been in order.
Jerry K.
>> tell us what is wrong with Jerry K.
>
>>Jerrys a closet quar he wud have a >better attitude if he just fessed up
>>and faced himself ;)
>
>>Jimbo has a problem with calorie control
>
>>Worse than that - JB still skydives.
>>
>
>In comparrison to what? The goodyear blimp?
Close - you.
>
>>p.s.
>>Everyone in Beaumont wishes that you >would come back. They have not
>>laughed
>>that hard in a while according to one >person out there.
>
>Yuh my countrfied ways and pure thoughts have that effect on people...
Not to mention runway gymnastics.
>the >cityfolk were rolling on the floor and crying at the cingular store down in
>Conroe today
You fall down and go boom there, too?
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>>>laughed
>>>that hard in a while according to one >person out there.
>
>Yuh my countrfied ways and pure >childlike thoughts have that effect on
>people...
>Not to mention runway gymnastics.
>
>>the >cityfolk were rolling on the floor and crying at the cingular store
>down in
>>Conroe today
>
>You fall down and go boom there, too?
>
nah I wuz giving my view on modern technology made them set the date & time on
the phone...so the rep sez the instructions are right in your manual
and I say yeah thats what the city slicker said that sold me the VCR and it
just goes
blink blink 0000 blink blink till a yongster comes by and sets the
contraption...So I ask this youn gal, you a city girl? NO
I GOT COWS...wouldn't a lawn mower be cheaper in town? and here she goes...then
this young guy took a shine to me, kint remember how it went but somehow it
came out I was homopobic or something cause I told this brunett I liked her
better than the young blond chick and he starts some pretty funny stuff trying
to act gay and all...Well hell when the police finally got there even they were
laffing
The office sez...git on back to Polk County where you belong Jethro unless you
got a city permit to preform stand up commedy shit I kin't go anywhere without
gitting in trouble o~;->
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
Sounds rather like what I'd imagine a particularly retarded episode of
"Friends" would be kinda like but hell, bullshit, if you're too stupid
to not video your standup, ain't never happened.
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
> city people...They just feel they kin walk >up and start screwing with the
hayseed...
>must can tell I rarely git mad the high >faluting cellphone cityfolk were
rolling on >the floor and crying at the cingular store
>You fall down and go boom there, too?
>nah I wuz giving my view on modern technology being the work of satan
So I starts flirting with the young women in the sly old coger way.
>you a city girl? NO I GOT COWS..
>wouldn't a lawn mower be cheaper in >town? She had marked my name off the
waiting list without calling it cuz I wuz in back hassling the technician about
working for the devil..I came back to the front and hornswaggled this brunett
chick to taking me next...the young blond sez
"He missed his turn!" I liked her type
better than blonds woops right to the head of the line bib overalls and
all...this young tech rep takes a shine to my old ass, he's blackheaded about
6' 6 and 280 pounds
and sez what about brunett guys in a high voice, shit I jumped two foot
straight up in the air and my straw hat spun around 3 times so the whole store
including customers cracked up...I started waving my cane and going on about
cityboys and when the police showed up they started laffing somehow it came out
I was homopobic or something & thats funny down in the city...so here we go
good cop bad cop skit, they both wippersnappers
and the youngest one starts reading me the riot act on gay rights in a high
lisping
falsetto and the other sez "unless you have a city permit to do street
performance
art you better git your butt back to Polk
County where you belong Jethro!" Thing is cingular has to activate the
replacement phone via computer and the girl is watching the floor show. DAMN I
THOUGH IT WUD TAKE FOREVER and the cops were gitting routy ;)P
the old Philosopher
SkydiverRick
...this young tech rep takes a shine to my old ass, he's
> blackheaded about 6' 6 and 280 pounds
I'll bet that you're glad that you had your shorts on backwards that day.
SkydiverRick
the cityfolk were rolling on the floor and crying at the
> cingular store down in Conroe today ;)
> the old Philosopher
Tell them about your last skydive?
Vedfolnir
lucky someone had a cellphone the fire department were there in under 10
minutes
and put out the friction burns then hauled me to the hospital I started
carrying one myself later when I found out it takes two hands to change a spare
tire or make a sandwitch ;)P
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
like we did...ya take shit far to serious
>From Rinkydink ;-?
well maybe not you kid ya fucked up yer paperwork on the D o~;->
the old Philosopher
SkydiverRick
> Yawl lack the ability to laugh at yourselves
They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.
Jerry K.
>>Subject: Re: OK Snuffy, New thread... Tell us what is wrong with skydiving
>>today?
>>From: "SkydiverRick" Skydiv...@hotmail.com
>>Date: 12/3/03 11:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
>>Message-id: <KQnzb.76185$do1....@twister.austin.rr.com>
>It's real hard for Snuff to replace that special feeling that he had for the
>donkey in TJ.
And that special feeling the fleet had for its finest drag queen.
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>...this young tech rep takes a shine to >my old ass, he's
>blackheaded about 6' 6 and 280 pounds
>the old Philosopher
>I'll bet that you're glad that you had your >shorts on backwards that day.
>...bsrp
stay outta this Jerry & let Ricky dink talk, go set ath the wine & cheeze table
with the little kids...I like him better than you anyway...that Didn't apply
for a D in 81 when he wuz quallified for it
appeals to my record of stupid skydiver bag of tricks...As the duke of dumb
skydiver tricks it makes me feel all warm & fuzzy inside that he's out there
teaching FJC's HAHAHAHAHAHA shit wayyy funny
And as far as that big kid in Conroe...I've got one ass whipping left in my
tired old ass but ain't sure its up to 6' 6" and 280 pounds ;)Pffffft
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
> the old Philosopher
>
>They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.
>
>
>
don't matter we wuz having fun ;)P
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
>> Yawl lack the ability to laugh at >yourselves like we did...
>> the old Philosopher
>>
>>They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.
>>
>>
>>
>
>don't matter we wuz having fun ;)P
Well, they were having fun - you were having to be bundled off to the
hospital.
...bsrp
...jlk
Jerry K.
>Rinkydink gits cut off by Jeery/ass
>
>>...this young tech rep takes a shine to >my old ass, he's
>>blackheaded about 6' 6 and 280 pounds
>>the old Philosopher
>
>>I'll bet that you're glad that you had your >shorts on backwards that day.
>
>>...bsrp
>
>stay outta this Jerry & let Ricky dink talk,
He was talking - he wrote that - not me. Pay attention. Shit, AOL is
supposed to be EASY to use but you've been having real problems.
>go set ath the wine & cheeze table
Can't - you're too busy overgrazing the spread.
>with the little kids...
What, the ones that can't skydive? Big, fat high-chair set at the
head of that table with your name on it.
>I like him better than you anyway...
Now, there's a comforting thought...but not for Rick.
>that Didn't apply
>for a D in 81 when he wuz quallified for it
>appeals to my record of stupid skydiver bag of tricks...
I can imagine - been nice if you'd been able to put a successful one
in the bag before you threw yourself out of the running.
>As the duke of dumb
Duke denotes royalty, a peerage, whereas you were just run of the mill
and couldn't pull it off. High class dumb does it without grass (or
tarmac) stains.
>skydiver tricks it makes me feel all warm & fuzzy inside that he's out there
>teaching FJC's
The students appreciate it.
>And as far as that big kid in Conroe...I've got one ass whipping left in my
>tired old ass but ain't sure its up to 6' 6" and 280 pounds
You must have one of those funny, carnival mirrors. No, wait - that's
just you. Freak show.
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>>> the old Philosopher
>>>
>>>They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>don't matter we wuz having fun ;)P
>
>Well, they were having fun - you were having to be bundled off to the
>hospital.
>
>...bsrp
>...jlk
>
>
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
No, in your circumstance that was not skydiving - that was boneheaded
manuever following to its predictable conclusion.
A comparatively rare and for obvious reasons, to be avoided aspect of
skydiving, perhaps.
Vedfolnir
>hospital.
>thaaaaaats skydiving kid
>
>No
yes...sometimes you win, sometimes gravity wins and everybody goes home but
you! o~;->
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
>>Well, they were having fun - you were >having to be bundled off to the
>>hospital.
>
>>thaaaaaats skydiving kid
>>
>>No
>
>yes...sometimes you win,
Which can be fun.
>sometimes gravity wins
Gravity always wins - at least in this plane of existence.
>and everybody goes home but
>you!
Ah, well - everybody having fun?
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>
>No
>yes...sometimes you win,
>sometimes gravity win
>Gravity always wins - at least in this >plane of existence.
not usually with that kind of force, unless your not in control of the canopy!
>and everybody goes home but
>you!
>
>Ah, well - everybody having fun?
>...bsrp
not the nuns at Saint Elizibeths that particular day, the devil hizself
appeared
on their doorstep o~;->
the old Philosopher
Tuppz
got more posts than skydives
God help me
"Jerry K." <sky...@pdq.net> wrote in message
news:ojqssvsi33m8qvo3c...@4ax.com...
Jerry K.
>Oh shit....I'm turning out like snuff
>got more posts than skydives
>God help me
Hell, just go to a dz abnd forget about it.
...bsrp
...jlk
Jerry K.
>>thaaaaaats skydiving kid
>>
>>No
>
>>yes...sometimes you win,
>>sometimes gravity win
>
>>Gravity always wins - at least in this >plane of existence.
>
>not usually with that kind of force, unless your not in control of the canopy!
No, gravity always wins - the best you can hope for is some kind of
give and take where lift vs. gravity are shared equally.
>
>>and everybody goes home but
>>you!
>>
>>Ah, well - everybody having fun?
>>...bsrp
>
>not the nuns at Saint Elizibeths that particular day, the devil hizself
>appeared
On a gurney.
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>got more posts than skydives
>God help me
Its a power I have over youngsters
not many cityboys have solid
roll models anymore, most of them
are dead and gone!
Rick? Rinkydink fukked up on his
D and just ain't got over it yet;)P
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
That ain't it - someone with (loads) more time and experience in the
sport (and still jumps which is the real pisser) didn't see the or
attache any importance to sending off for a license before the ink on
the logbook had a chance to dry and you can't get over that. You were
all caught up in the trappings of affluence, counting the jumps until
you could get a BIGGER license (and the imagined status you hoped it
would impart) while Rick was only interested in going up to make
another jump. Nevertheless, ten "wasted years" or not, his D# is
still lower than yours...and he still skydives. You over it yet?
...bsrp
...jlk
SkydiverRick
> That ain't it - someone with (loads) more time and experience in the
> sport (and still jumps which is the real pisser) didn't see the or
> attache any importance to sending off for a license before the ink on
> the logbook had a chance to dry and you can't get over that. You were
> all caught up in the trappings of affluence, counting the jumps until
> you could get a BIGGER license (and the imagined status you hoped it
> would impart) while Rick was only interested in going up to make
> another jump. Nevertheless, ten "wasted years" or not, his D# is
> still lower than yours...and he still skydives. You over it yet?
>
> ...bsrp
> ...jlk
When Snuffles gets on a dead horse, he rides.
Vedfolnir
Just like a Comanch...ride the sumbitch till it dies, eat it and steal another
one
the dumb fuk cuddn't even find the post office & he's teaching FJC? ;->
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>the dumb fuk cuddn't even find the post office & he's teaching FJC? ;->
Philosopher
>Naaaaaaaa he didn't feel the need for the >status of having a "D", as you did.
>
The D represented freedom...freedom to travel, compete at National level, tell
self important people to fuk off....a C wud do for SL/JM, traveling, 24/5's and
such things at the time but the D represented total freedom from the
panhandling whores trying to sell illusions around a DZ. Yuh the D was the way
to go for a free spirit...just a beginning benchmark really...the real skill
evolved with airtime but it opened a lot of doors...from there you could go
anywhere....unfortunately many fell by the wayside and decided to become
whores.
Pack that in your ass and smoke it kid ;)P
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
spirit...just a >beginning benchmark really...the real >skill evolved with
airtime but it opened a >lot of doors...from there you could go >anywhere..
>That "D" gave you the freedom to be >confined in a trailer most of the time,
>lame brain.
>
Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose those are the breaks, say are you sure
you saw combat kid?...I started late... and old age bought me down...not the
D...Hey thats right I forgot >>tell self important people to fuk
off.<------------
FUK OFF CHUCK o~;-*
the old Philosopher
Jerry K.
>> (chuck)
>
>>the dumb fuk cuddn't even find the post office & he's teaching FJC? ;->
>Philosopher
>
>>Naaaaaaaa he didn't feel the need for the >status of having a "D", as you did.
>>
>
>The D represented freedom...
Uh, Jimmy - you are not free to take a bunch of novices up together on
a bigway, even if you do have D. I know the ink's dry now - stupid is
stupid. I know, you don't get invited on the bigways - sucks but you
got to fly like you have a D before people will forget you flying like
some "200 jump wonder."
>freedom to travel,
Uh, Jimmy - you can take that A license you got in the mail the moment
you landed after jump 20 and go jump at any dz.
>compete at National level,
Uh, Jimmy - just because the S&A Nationals are happening right now,
that doesn't mean that this POPS Nationals has anything to do with RW
Nationals but we're proud you brought your D license and that you have
one.
>tell self important people to fuk off....
Uh Jimmy - that D doesn't make opening low in the midst of a bunch of
canopies any less stupid.
>a C wud do for SL/JM,
Uh, Jimmy - before you send off for your D (I know, I know, you just
made your 200th jump - we're happy for you) are you considering
getting an S/L rating?
>traveling, 24/5's and such things at the time
Uh, Jimmy - no need to repeat yourself, we've heard it before - you
can take that A license you got in the mail the moment you landed
after jump 20 and go jump at any dz.
> but the D represented total freedom from the
>panhandling whores trying to sell illusions around a DZ.
Uh, Jimmy - you don't need a D license to be free from these
panhandling whores who you imagine are trying to sell illusions around
the DZ. Stop asking them for stuff and they'll leave you alone. You
might start with your landing skills - still a problem by the looks of
it.
>Yuh the D was the way
>to go for a free spirit...
Uh, Jimmy - it's just a license classification - what you do with it
is and always has been totally up to you.
>just a beginning benchmark really...
Uh, Jimmy - those previous 199 jumps and three licenses, they have
more than a little bearing because it's all cumulative, you know.
>the real skill
>evolved with airtime but it opened a lot of doors...
Uh, Jimmy - I don't care if you do have a D - that last dive you flew
like a dickhead and were all over the sky - no, maybe you ought to go
work on some discipline and skills before you come up on something
like this again.
>from there you could go
>anywhere....
Uh, Jimmy - now that you have an A license, yeah, 30 more and you can
send off for the B - we know, you can now go jump at any dropzone.
>unfortunately many fell by the wayside and decided to become
>whores. Pack that in your ass and smoke it kid ;
Uh, Jimmy - you only need a C to become a paid S/L jm.
...bsrp
...jlk
Vedfolnir
>you saw combat kid?.
>
>I saw a lot on TV.
Yawl had TV incountry?....Ya REMF peckerwood ;-P
I did get the Combat Action Award,
cut your finger opening a can of beer?
> did you?
you claim to have my records, you tell me
pougybait ;)P
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>The corpsman had to hump it.
MY ASS THATS A SEA STORY
if I ever heard one
>I did get the Combat Action Award,
>
>>cut your finger opening a can of beer?
>
>naaa....they give out purple hearts for >that.
I saw an officer put in for both when
a B-40 slamming the boat caused him to cut his lip on a can of Pabst he wuz
swiggin on....a real sailor though, he didn't spill a drop! my kind of hero ;)
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>which (exception of Corpsmen assigned >to the Marines) usually meant Naval Gun
>Fire, or other support roles. Poor >Corpsmen had to earn theirs.
ya had to be engaged directly with the enemy and return fire on the river, saw
a 2nd Class catch a round in the leg...he went down like a sack of taters, by
the time we got the junk turned around, they were gone...got the purple heart
but no CAR...I doubt the sailors firing missions out in the Tonkin Gulf got
them they wern't under direct fire even though technically engaged but it was
considered in support...Unless your a officer getting Navy medals was
complicated and not so complicated rather proactive (getting medals was
important to officers
careers) btw the officer I mentioned before got niether medal even though we
fired at the RPG teams, Hell enemy fire caused him to cut his lip on the beer
can and he didn't spill any beer
I thought he should get something but the Senior Advisor at HQ filed his
request in the trash after investigating...we used church keys to open beer
cans back then Dangerous work <snarf>
the old Philosopher
JimBo
>From: cgilb...@aol.com (chuck)
>The little people shot at ships, fired rockets at them and heck, they even
>shot
>at each other (Navy) sometimes in the heat of support.
My brother was awarded the CAR while stationed aboard a DDG...USS Henry B
Wilson...after supporting a marine operation near the Mekong....they were fired
on with 20 mike mike..
He was a MM 2.
Jim D-10154
Man small... why fall ? Skies call... thats all.
Vedfolnir
>shot at each other
and which side of the DMZ was this on?
I take it your talking ZU 122's, their unguided.... and RPG's wuzzn't gonna
reach ships off shore, the little people
were smarter than that.
>Pretty simple Snuff, lower the launch and >take a couple of shots at the ship,
while >we fire our guns in support of the OP. >Done all the time to get the
ribbon.
I doubt it...the fishing boats used to flock up at night off the coast and a
few enemy sampams would hide amoung them occasionally but I doubt many ships
got
shot at after the 1st & 2nd Tonkin Gulf incident (and that finally proved
doubtfull) the sampams fished shoal water and the fire support and barrier
patrol DD's fearing a grounding would call out the river swifts or us to close
and investigate the gathering....Only US vessel I heard about getting shot up
was a USCG WPB that got scrafed by Carrier jets one night....yup the Coast
Guard was there in Spades...their was a SWIFT with a CG crew
that came up our river all the time, nice guys....they dropped off their
remaining chow at our outpost the end of each patrol
before returning to DaNang...carried steaks and ice cream, damn fine fellows ;)
Nope I think yer telling a sea story
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
states
>that in support of that action if they came >under fire
Friendly fire don't count....you sound like a damn sea lawyer boot. Hair
splitting didn't get it in the old Navy....wuzzn't no grey areas except the
deck and bulkheads ;)P
the old Philosopher
Vedfolnir
>
>>The little people shot at ships, fired rockets at them and heck, they even
>>shot
>>at each other (Navy) sometimes in the heat of support.
>
>My brother was awarded the CAR while stationed aboard a DDG...USS Henry B
>Wilson...after supporting a marine operation near the Mekong....they were
>fired
>on with 20 mike mike..
>He was a MM 2.
>
>Jim
Nope don't believe it...even though laxity of interpretation & medal integrity
varyed by command, sorry since he's your brother and your telling sea storys
tonight cain't believe it....Try throwing in Mom and apple pie to sweeten the
deal & try again boot
the old Philosopher