PhreeZone 20 #26 December 16, 2002 5 pm wakeup today:0:0 Usual winter numbers.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #27 December 16, 2002 Quote5 pm wakeup today:0:0 You forgot: 1 drunken phone call from the little womanSkydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #28 December 16, 2002 >1 drunken phone call from the little woman At 3:15 am my time and I could tell it was a drunk dialing call.... I still love her the same.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derekbox 0 #29 December 16, 2002 YeahRight:6:1 Broke 200 jumps this weekend. So I guess I sorta owe beer for that - to celebrate the milestone we did a nice 12way FF. It didnt quite build, but was cool (and cold) as shit. So yeah. D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cgross 1 #30 December 16, 2002 First of all ms. greenie... I am from BOSTON, and our accent is not funny! If you think about it we are speaking correctly. See, the pilgrims landed here first, and the language developed from there. So, where ever you're from is just a dialect of what I speak . Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #31 December 16, 2002 QuoteSee, the pilgrims landed here first, and the language developed from there. O.K., so then explain why everyone who sings sounds like they're from the west coast when they're singing, but some have accents so thick you can barely understand them when they're talking. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cgross 1 #32 December 16, 2002 I can't.... I thought Eric clapton was an american for the longest time. I figure they are "anunciating" (spelling) so they can be understood globally. But come on, show me someone that sings instead of talks, and .... well.. I don't know... they're a freak! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyboyblue 0 #33 December 16, 2002 0:7:0 I'm sure you all are saving your jump money for eloy right? suuuurrreee. I'll just gloat while I can because I sure it will be reciprocated in a major way in about 2 weeks. 7 jumps total, avg temp in nebraska=55(dececember nonetheless).unfuckingbeleivable sbb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #34 December 16, 2002 Quote First of all ms. greenie... I am from BOSTON, and our accent is not funny! If you think about it we are speaking correctly. See, the pilgrims landed here first, and the language developed from there. So, where ever you're from is just a dialect of what I speak . Chris Actually, depending which Boston accent you mean, it is probably nothing like how the Pilgrims spoke. Most regional accents are heavily influenced by immigrants, believe it or not (children grow up hearing both and integrate them). So if you have like a Southy accent, probably Irish influence. Brahmahs (sp?) probably have more like a pure derived King's English, I would guess. I've always guessed that the accent used by rural New England swamp yankees is probably the more like the original colonists. It seems pretty consistent from Maine to Rhode Island, anyway, whereas even in this small state, you can discern at least half a dozen unique accents in the urban and suburban areas. I'm not a linguist, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #35 December 16, 2002 Quote Quote See, the pilgrims landed here first, and the language developed from there. O.K., so then explain why everyone who sings sounds like they're from the west coast when they're singing, but some have accents so thick you can barely understand them when they're talking. Ciels- Michele Simple, because *you* are from the west coast. Singing is not talking, and generally accent-free, so you hear what you have heard people with that horrifying SoCal accent sound like when they sing, and assume that anyone else who sounds like that has that accent when they speak. Make sense? _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cgross 1 #36 December 16, 2002 I agree, I spent 2 yrs in maine...what hicks. I have the IRISH southy accent, but no matter what, I think mine is the best. That north shore revere accent KILLS me. Us southy people, and SS people have it right. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #37 December 16, 2002 $160 spent Xmas shopping:0:0 Best Buy was a horrible place to be. Nuff said. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skygal3 0 #38 December 16, 2002 *ahem*... well, not everyone from new england talks like a rural swamp yankee, thank you very much...I grew up in RI with a very thick RI accent, more like a brooklyn accent than anything else..(talk to someone from cranston...we say things like dowg, smawl, etc...) However!!! The Maine/NH hick accent is much different...and mostly only backwoods hick folk talk like that...not us flatlanders... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #39 December 16, 2002 O jumps 5 or 6 inches of rain gusts to about 50 or 60 Many trees down. 2 glasses of wine (so far)My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #40 December 16, 2002 Quote *ahem*... well, not everyone from new england talks like a rural swamp yankee, thank you very much...I grew up in RI with a very thick RI accent, more like a brooklyn accent than anything else..(talk to someone from cranston...we say things like dowg, smawl, etc...) However!!! The Maine/NH hick accent is much different...and mostly only backwoods hick folk talk like that...not us flatlanders... Would you like a cabnit with that grinda, or ya gonna just drink from tha bubbla? Sorry, what I was trying to say is that there are several distinct accents in RI, the Cranston one being the most absurd , but different that someone from South County, or Barrington or Woonsocket ("throw me down the stairs my shoes"). However, when you get out in the sticks, and I mean STICKS (think hillbillies, you know what I mean), things seem to smooth out and are consistent across NE. Just my amateur observation. Mainies get the coverage (ah-yuh), but you hear a similar voice in Richmond, Burriville (no school in Fosta-Glosta!), etc. _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #41 December 16, 2002 68 (high temp in Aggieland today):8:1 We had a kick ass beautiful weekend in Aggieland, we had tonz of people on the DZ, had to import some extra instructors so we could take care of all of our ISP/AFF students we had coming. We had a couple groups of visiting jumpers, plus our normal crew of jumpers. We had to get a 2nd 182 in this weekend to help, we're growing, growing quickly and have a great group of regulars that proved themselves this weekend, inviting the visitors on dives, organizing with the new/low time jumpers and even trying to get all the visitors/students to come out to a kick ass party we had at one of the jumper's house (which happens to have a hot-tub). The beer is for talking a student down on radio for the first time. That actually made me nervous, but the student did really well and I ended up doing this a couple more times this weekend. I love getting to work with students. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suz 0 #42 December 16, 2002 1:5k:0 $1 pots of beer all saturday 5k richer 0 jumps life is good Don't bother me, I'm living happily ever after Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skygal3 0 #43 December 16, 2002 BWAHAHAHAHAA...LOL...that is so funny!!! Yes, cawfee cabinets and grinders! And Dells lemonade and awful awfuls...(have a ri'er say that!) I am so proud of my R dialect, but I learned to quickly drop the accent when I moved out of RI and all of the boys would tease me by making me say "the small dog is soft" because of course it was more like "the smowl dowg is sowft..." Now I feel I am pretty much generic, but it still escapes every now and then...thats wun-socket to you and please oh please don't call it paw-tucket! p.s. my sister went to high school with vinny paz...true story You know you are from Rhode Island.doc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #44 December 16, 2002 ?:1:1 ?: Good weekend! 1: Wandered over to the Cessna boogie at Skydive Chicago. 1: First time jumping a Cessna 182 at Skydive Chicago. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #45 December 16, 2002 Have you seen the BigBlueBugCam? It's not up right now, but they put a web cam in the Big Blue Bug's eye. OSO.com has others too, including Wun-sock-et': http://www.oso.com/autos/content/homes/neighborhoods/cam_jump.html _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #46 December 16, 2002 http://www.oso.com/autos/content/homes/neighborhoods/cam_jump.html Make the links clicky or I'll shoot this dog... --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skygal3 0 #47 December 16, 2002 I haven't seen the cam but I can recall that bug being there ever since I was born...we used to drive by it like everyday on 95...if you look closely in the movie Dumb and Dumber when they are heading out of town it is there. That bug is as synonymous as Salty Brine! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #48 December 16, 2002 QuoteWhen you get acclimated to the FL climate, anything below 65 seems cold. But, look at Stacy. She's only been in Florida less than a year, and she even said it was too cold to jump, and she's from New York! That's a bad example Andrea. Stacy whined when it was 65 in Jersey too. She's just not a good cold person. :) - Jim"Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #49 December 16, 2002 QuoteYou've eaten at Haven Brothers, drunk. Yup. And the Silver Top Diner. That pretty much sums up college for me. _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #50 December 16, 2002 I don't know too many girls that are good cold people. I know a couple, but only a couple. Most of the girls I know will be in a room with you, where the tempurature of the room is 76F and they turn the damn air off or the heat up, leaving me sweating... Not a scientific report, just something I've noticed over the course of some years. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
