Brisco

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  1. You can add me to that list. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  2. Man, I wish I could!!! When I win the lottery (part of my long-term financial plan, by the way), I'll buy the jump tickets! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  3. It's been raining and cold here all week. Now the sun is out, its nice and warm and the weekend weather looks great! Screw the war. Screw politics. Screw it all! I just got my A license last weekend and I'm goin' jumpin'!! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  4. I jumped at Carolina Sky Sports yesterday and last weekend and I didn't hear any talk or rumor about anything like that and nothing seemed any differnt. Paul also gave a talk on safety day and seemed to be in his normal good humor. There have been some changes at the dz over the winter, but all of them positive. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  5. This wasn't a whuffo question, but about the strangest and funniest whuffo excuse for not skydiving I've heard... At a party one guy said to me "I'd love to try it, but I don't want to pay for it" When I asked why he didn't want to pay for it he said, "Because if something happened and I died, I'd have paid for my own death"!! He somehow didn't see that driving a car or any other "normal" life risks were the same thing! Go figure! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  6. Dawn at Carolina Sky Sports is senior rigger. Great teacher too! (if your reading this Dawn, thanks for everything!) Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  7. 3/4/50 53 years young Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  8. Being that you are in an "active" transaction with the seller, you can get the seller's contact info which should include an address and phone number. Give him/her a call. You can also file a "non performing seller" alert with eBay. eBay will automatically send the seller a mildly threatening e-mail which might get him off the pot. Good luck! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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    ROTFLMAO!! Good one!! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  10. Winston-Salem, North Carolina Carolina Sky Sports Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  11. I don't think eBay knew or cared if the items were bogus or not. They just stopped any such auctions as they did right after 9/11 with supposed pieces from the WTC towers. I also understand that taking a piece from ANY crashed aircraft is a federal offence and carries 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine, so I hope the FBI swooped in and nabbed anyone who tried to profit from this horrible event.
  12. An old man lived alone in Jackson, Wyoming. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, Bob, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament. Dear Bob, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me. Love, Dad A few days later he received a letter from his son. Dear Dad, For heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden! That's where I buried the GUNS! Love, Bob At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen ATF agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any guns. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son. Dear Dad, Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. It's the best I could do under the circumstances. Love, Bob Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  13. Yeah, I've seen it a couple of times. The skydiving part of the commercial is so short that you barely even realize you're seeing a skydiver. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  14. I was thinking about going to Pigeon Forge since it's "only" about 5 hours from here. Is it worth the drive? Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  15. Thanks to all for the input. Naturally the kid's going to speak with his doctor about the pros and cons, but it would appear the concensus here is to leave it in and be careful. Skydiving is way more important to him than motorcycling, so he's not going to replace the bike and is going to buy a brand new rig with the insurance money. Thanks again, Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  16. A few months ago my son's skydive training got put on hold due to a motorcycle accident which left him with a titanium rod in his leg. He's chomping at the bit to get back to skydiving but some folks have suggested that he have that rod removed (after all proper healing of course) before he jumps again, saying that if he were to break that leg again with the rod in there, he could be in serious permanent trouble or even lose his leg altogether, especially if that rod were to bend. This makes a LOT of sense to me, but he's thinking of jumping with the rod in place. Oh, and he's only got 13 jumps so far. Does anyone have any knowledge of or experience with this? Any thoughts, suggestions, comments appreciated. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  17. I had the same problem and discovered that my problem was I was arching wrong. I was arching with my belly and not with my hips and that made it nearly impossible to relax. Once I arched with my hips it became very easy to relax and my stability problems went away. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  18. My dad and I did a bungee at the Hackett place in Vegas. We both thought it was pretty cool, but for my money that ride on top of the Stratosphere hotel - I think it's called "the Big Shot" - kind of a reverse bungee jump where they shoot you striaght up about 100 feet or so - was much better than the bungee jump. As a funny side note to the bungee thing - they video tape every jump (probably for liability reasons in case something goes wrong) and you can buy the video if you want to. Because my dad was over 70 years old at the time, he got the whole package - jump & video - for free. Naturally, they reuse the video tapes that people don't buy. When we got home from Vegas we were showing dad's video to the family and after we saw dad's jump we were talking and forgot to shut off the vcr. All of a sudden more video pops up of a guy named Nick about to do a jump. Nick tried and tried but just couldn't work up the nerve to jump. I don't know exactly how long poor Nick was up on the tower trying to muster his courage to jump since they kept stopping and restarting the tape, but it was daylight when the clip started and well after dark when he finally gave up and took the elevator back down. It was really pretty funny. The bungee workers were starting to get pissed and one guy yelled "C'mon Nick, fucking jump!" Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  19. I wouldn't worry TOO much about that - we don't have enough money to make it worth their while! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  20. This is only the beginning folks and it's all about the money. It won't be long before the state's attorneys general and probably the feds get those dollar signs in their eyes and jump on this. All the fast food outfits will get dragged into it for a huge settlement to treat people who got fat or diabetes from eating fast food, educational programs to warn kids of the dangers of fast food, etc., etc. Ronald McDonald will probably have to go the way of Joe Camel too. They (the lawyers) got what they could out of tobacco and now they are in need of other deep pockets. I figure once they get done with the fast food industry they'll move on to either the liquor or the automobile industries. Sad, very sad. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  21. It was only a matter of time before the lawyers went after the fast food industry, but I really thought they would have gone after the liquer industry or the automobile industry first. Now that they've bled the tobacco industry (disclaimer: not defending the tobacco industry here) they are just searching for other deep pockets. This is just the start of it. Before long the States will get involved looking for their share of the pie, as will the feds and this will probably extend to the entire fast food industry eventually. Hamburgers just went to $10 ea folks! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  22. Buckwheat converted to Islam - he's now known as Kareema Wheat. Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  23. I work from home, but I'll admit that I spend WAY too much time on dz.com. I do, however, try to break it up some... I'll work a little, surf a little. I may not be rich, but this beats the hell out of really working for a living!! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
  24. Little Johnny and Jenny are only 10 years old, but they just know that they are in love. One day, they decide that they want to get married, so Johnny goes to Jenny's father to ask him for her hand. Johnny bravely walks up to him and says, "Mr. Smith, me and Jenny are in love and I want to ask you for her hand in marriage." Thinking that this was the cutest thing, Mr. Smith replies, "Well Johnny, you're only 10. Where will you two live?" Without even taking a moment to think about it, Johnny replies, "In Jenny's room. It's bigger than mine and we can both fit there nicely." Still thinking this is just adorable, Mr. Smith says with a huge grin, "Okay then, how will you live? You're not old enough to get a job. You'll need to support Jenny." Again, Johnny instantly replies, "Our allowance...Jenny makes 5 bucks a week and I make 10 bucks a week. That's about 60 bucks a month, and that should do us just fine." By this time, Mr. Smith is a little shocked that Johnny has put so much thought into this. So he thinks for a moment, trying to come up with something that Johnny won't have an answer to. After a while, Mr. Smith says, "Well Johnny, it seems like you've got everything all figured out. I just have one more question for you. What will you do if the two of you should have little ones of your own?" Johnny just shrugs his shoulders and says, "Well, we've been lucky so far..."
  25. Brisco

    Tuesday Funny

    Dear Abby admitted she was at a total loss to answer these: Dear Abby, A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher, and the other is a social worker in her mid-twenties. These two women go everywhere together, and I'ven never seen a man go into their apartment or come out. Do you think they could be Lebanese? Dear Abby, What can I do about all the sex, nudity, language and violence on my VCR? Dear Abby, I have a man I never could trust. He cheats so much I'm not even sure this baby I'm carrying is his. Dear Abby, I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive, and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him. Dear Abby, I suspected that my husband had been fooling around, and when I confronted him with the evidence he denied everything and said it would never happen again. Should I believe him? Dear Abby, Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own? Dear Abby, I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now, how do I get out? Dear Abby, My 40-year-old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50 an hour every week for two-and-a-half years. He must be crazy. Dear Abby, Do you think it would be all right if I gave my doctor a little gift? I tried for years to get pregnant and couldn't, but he finally did it. Dear Abby, My mother is mean and short-tempered. Do you think she is going through her mental pause? Dear Abby, You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex years ago and he is a doctor. What now?