What is with whuffo?

[gale 0]

Sorry, apparently this is something that skydivers innately know, but where did this term come from?
Gale
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[freeflir29 0]

NOPE....not gettin off that easy. You must now sit through the entire movie "Dropzone" (I think it is) to find out the answer. "It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[bbarnhouse 0]

Hey Clay it was just on! I sat tghrough it again.......LOL
It only takes a little pixie dust......

[PhreeZone 20]

Try Cutaway too..... if you can go the entire way with out laughing.... you did better then me....

[gale 0]

"You must now sit through the entire movie "Dropzone" (I think it is) to find out the answer"
Then do I have to write a 10 page paper explaining its signifigance to the skydiving culture at large?
Well, OK. It's a good time to do it when I'm our with a f*cked up ankle. I can dream about skydiving even if I can't do it.
Gale
Life's not worth living if you can't feel alive

[freeflir29 0]

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Then do I have to write a 10 page paper explaining its signifigance to the skydiving culture at large?

I really think it would be impossible to get 10 pages out of that movie...
"It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[quade 4]

Gale --
Let's make this a drinking game (actually, I already have).
Get your hands on a copy of the movie "Cutaway" and everytime somebody says the word "whuffo" you have to take a shot of whiskey. It makes the movie a lot better and you'll find out what the word means.
BTW, you also have to take a shot everytime you see the phone number 1-800-sky-dive.
quade
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[AggieDave 6]

If you really want to get tore, take a shot every time there is something that is not based in skydiving reality.
A human cannonball, I rise above it all
Up higher then a trapeze, I can fly

[quade 4]

Actually, there's a heck of a lot more truth to "Cutaway" than most skydivers give it credit. There's a couple of scenes that I've lived out.
It's very laughable for it's sillyness in some places, but um, the movie is actually based in a certain amount of reality -- including a drug running scheme to financially support a national team.
quade
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[YahooLV 0]

Nah, I believe that the "wuffo" speech is clearly made in "REDLINE"S speech in the greatest skydive movie ever put together with duct tape and tape ends "Cutaway".

[YahooLV 0]

You did one of those "tent scenes?!?"

[wingnut 0]

i think my fav. line from cutaway was: "if your going to do the team, don't "do" the team"....... made me bust up laughing......... and actually i have contimplated several of those situations myself... like cuting away from the "real" world and moving to the dz...... now, hitting the peas while in a track is another story all in itself..... but hey, i liked the movie..... and wuffo, well i think it say it all for itself....... lets just say it was thought up by the forefathers of skydiving and will forever be famous.... it gets the "-unknown" behind the quote............

"i may not go to heven, i hope you go to hell"-C.C.

[FallRate 0]

So is no one going to let Gale know the origin of the word? I'm pretty sure she knows what it means.
FallRate

[Billy 0]

LOL!!
Ya Wingnut,, hit the peas dead center in a track an leave a perfectly purrty corpse,,
and now,, for something completely different,,,

[airann 1]

I own a copy of Cutaway and the movie poster, -white wooden frame. I am currently in search of the movie poster for DropZone and that other one, I forgot...
And I think I may want the new one Triple X, it has a ton of skydiving in it. Although we lost a brother in that one, the stunt man. He was from Calif.
Also Point Break, just because of the skydiving in it and also because I have jumped out of that exact plane before.
..... I also have a print of a painting from 1810 of a boy picking fleas off his dog........It is said its a masterpiece.
~Looks like a boy picking fleas off his Brittany Spaniel to me~ So stuff like that is worthy of a frame and a place on my wall. Comedy, if you look hard enough. Over the mantel is Albert Einstien. He reminds me of me..... Although I dont smoke a pipe.
Ann ~ www.AirAnn.com
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