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Aids just like Syphilis and gonaria and what have you typically do not happen to people who don't whore around. Unless you're the wife or unborn child of some guy who whores around - and refuses to use a condom to protect his wife, for any number of stupid religious, or traditional "reasons". The third world is full of sick and dying orphans because the old man gave it to mom and she had no say about it. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Give up blurting out your distorted political views and stick to singing, "Love is like a heatwave" and all those other cheesy duets you did with James Ingram and Aaron Neville. Yeah, and I'm sure they'd have booted her ass if she'd dedicated a song to the memory of Ronald Reagan ? Bullshit. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I'm a Buchanan man myself, and want to thank you for putting his name in the poll. Buchanan allowed the southern states to secede from the union one by one. "Let Lincoln deal with it", was his excuse. The south didn't all leave at once. South Carolina led the pack and stood alone for something like two months (the "Bonnie Blue Flag that bares a single star", was the flag of the South Carolina Republic). The other southern states held their breath to see if the Feds would let the other foot drop. Because in 1828 South Carolina had threatened to secede until President Andrew Jackson threatened to personally lead the U.S. Army into Charleston and hang the entire legislature on the front steps of the state capitol. Needless to say, they desisted. The Civil War may have been inevitable, but Buchanan sat on his rosy ass and let it begin. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Trying to satisfy three women at once. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Are they any dumber than those nutcases who spend thousands of dollars every year jumping out of perfectly good airplanes ??????? I'd say the pot is calling the kettle black (big harumphhh...). Have a great weekend & some great dives. By the way, how's the engagement going (hope that's a safe question) ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

If you're that low, you got anything BETTER to pull ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Lenny Cravitz - I'll Fly Away Rolling Stones - Parachute Woman ("Land on me tonight...") The Cars - Let the Good Times Roll The Kinks - I Want to Fly Like Superman Grateful Dead - The Other One (live versions) Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

You are fine now, with your jump numbers and experience, but it gets to a point where you should be comfortable with breaking off at 4 grand and dumping at 3 or so. I think this is a problem with AFF. People are afraid to break off at what they consider low altitude. Amen & hallelujeh brother! In the old days, when students started out on static line, we used to work our way UP to altitudes like 3500 ft - where we'd do our first 10 second delay. They told us it was safe and it was higher than I'd jumped so far, so that was good enough for me. We were comfy with pulling at 2500, but would go to 2 grand if we needed to, usually for better seperation. We used to routinely breakoff 8-10 ways at 3500 ft and this was considered normal, safe, by-the-book procedure. Higher breakoff and pull altitudes in general are a good thing, I ENJOY breaking off from an 8 way at 4500 ft and dumping at 3 grand, it's more relaxed. But novice jumpers really need to get comfy with 3 grand. I won't suggest anything lower, though I'm still prepared to go to 2 grand or slightly below in a real pinch (hasn't happened lately either). But if you're doing formations and pulling above 3 grand, you're needlessly wasting freefall time that the group can safely use. I still don't use an audible, but think they're a good idea. Hope Santa is listening... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[Ya know, a friend of mine quite a while back cynically commented that he wouldn't put it past this Administration to indefinitely hold onto power through some "state of emergency"/"national security" rationale. In 1864 President Lincoln's advisers suggested he cancel the elections, on the grounds of national security and thhe crisis of the Civil War that was still raging. Don't forget that for most of the war, Washington DC was only a few miles from the front lines and the Confederate Army could've marched in. In the early years of the war, Lee's army could've probably taken and held Washington if they'd wanted to. But no matter, Lincoln rejected the idea. He knew that if he couldn't be legitimately re-elected in a free election, that the war would be lost. Lincoln made it clear that the elections would proceed as normal and he ended up running against one of his own generals (George McClellan), who ran on a peace platform. Lincoln was resoundingly re-elected. And he was a Republican (and a former trial lawyer to boot). But this chimpanzee we're stuck with now, he's probably dying for any excuse he can get to pull the plug on the whole thing. He has no grasp of history, or anything else, beyond what he wants. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Recovering from an injury. I get out to the dropzone once a month or so, but sitting around watching other people jump starts to suck after an hour or two. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Unless you're jumping nekkid, or having a quickie in a stairwell... Sex after a day of skydiving is more totally fantastic. "Remember when sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous ?" Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

The closure was 2 elastic loops with a bight of bridle through each one (replacing the 2 loops and pins that had formerly resided there). My first hand deploy was a Hanbury, but I also remember stowing a bight of the bridle in the closing loop. Closing pins didn't really become standard 'til about '78 or '79. By then too many of us had had our stomachs churned by the pilot chute hanging up, in tow, and then usually clearing. My pilot chute was alo stowed in a pocket between the main container and back pad, with a lead to a pud handle that was velcroed to the belly band (the horror, the horror...). Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Take a fucking valium, or three and call back in the morning. This Speaker's Corner Forum is a good idea, it's such a drag that you can just avoid the whole thing altogether. Think I will. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

And as we all know, the crew on Star Trek: Enterprise are still skittish about teleporting. They don't take it for granted the way Jean Luc Picard and company will in another two centuries. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

It sounds like your doctor respects your desire/need to jump, which is a lot better than too many doctors. Really, some of them would've told you, "you can never jump again" with a straight face. You're only looking at a few weeks, they'll fly right on by. Me, I'm hoping to get back in the air by September or October, my whole summer went down the shitter in April when I mangled my ankle. But much as I WANT to jump, I'm going to wait as long as it takes, because being a cripple sucks. Take up a hobby, like indoor body surfing with a willing partner. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Hadn't been jumping a square for very long, this was back in '79, when I was descending toward the peas, deep in the brakes on a 5 cell canopy. Noticing a whuffo with a camera snapping pictures of me, I decided to "give him a scare" and let my toggles up, real fast. Gave him a hell of a scare. Gave myself an even worse scare and pulled those toggles all the way back down FAST, though it didn't do much good. Managed to get up and hobble away, pretending nothing was too out of the ordinary. I wouldn't recommend trying that on today's canopies, unless your affairs are in order. Also packed and jumped a soaking wet canopy once. Believe it or not the opening was completely normal. I just couldn't get the right brake to come loose, it was so waterlogged it had swollen up and jammed. Had to cutaway, but not 'til I'd dicked around with it down to about 1200 ft. Oh to be young & stupid again !! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Yes, but who will win the debate? Don't know how many of us are old enough to remember the 1976 election, but there's some reason to believe that snarlin' Bob Dole's pit bull debate tactics may have cost Ford the election. I mean Dole was debating Walter Mondale for heaven's sake, it shouldn't have been that hard. But he was so damned nasty it turned a lot of people off (this was before old lovable Bob started watching all those Britney Spears Pepsi commercials). I'm pleased to see John Edwards on the ticket, I'd been hoping Kerry would pick him. Edwards won a lot of respect & admiration during the primaries, even if he did win only one of those. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Thanks, that's what I'd thought the Forums were here for. There were further revelations last week that the clergy sex abuse scandal isn't just an American problem either, it's worldwide. With the church re-shuffling the priests around the world to protect them. In all fairness, as my parents and most of my family are still sincere Catholics, I'm not condemning people who choose to hold onto their Catholic faith. But I despise any church that tries to lean on it members with such a heavy hand over political questions, whether it's the Catholics, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakan, or anyone else. Some of it's based on general principles, some of it on my extreme bitterness with a church that cares for nothing so much as controlling every aspect of peoples' lives. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

No doubt about it, Saddam is a bad bad man. But so is Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, all those Generalissimo assholes in Myanmar (Burma), any number of tinhorn dictators in some of the former Soviet states, that assbite Musharif we prop up in Pakistan, who's selling us both ways as well as selling nuclear technology to every hothead in the Muslim world while we funnel the mighty dollars to his regime. And lest I forget, the North Koreans are still demonstrating some attitude, as well as starving their won people to death. So why not go in and take care of them all ? Two answers: 1.) no oil involved, and 2.) N. Korea would probably shoot back. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I think that commerical is hilarious. I'm wondering if it wasn't written by somebody who's made a few jumps, or has friends or family who jump. I almost bit my tongue off it was so funny. Especially the part when the guy says, "Do I look like some kind of an idiot ?", and the camera takes a long look at him in goggles and a leather frap hat. Shit, if we can't even laugh at ourselves..... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I find nothing wrong with the voting record, taken verbatim, as you listed it. You overlooked/forgot Kerry's service as a public prosecutor in Middlesex County, MA. He gained a reputation as a very tough, no-nonsense prosecutor. There are plenty of good reasons for being against the death penalty, the biggest one being that too many innocent people who can't afford big-gun attorneys are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and sadly, sometimes executed. That's reason enough right there to get rid of it for all time. And finally, as an ex-Catholic, I think the church should spend more time and attention on keeping the clergy's dicks out of the altar boys' buttholes. Does anybody really CARE what a bunch of organized child molestors think about how politicians should vote. Americans were worried that Kennedy might be too Catholic, are saying Kerry's not Catholic enough ? Who the fuck cares !! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Me too, there you go, what he said, etc, etc. Hell, I'd vote for Michael Jackson if I had too, we can't take another 4 years of the chimpanzee. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

When asked by a young rap 'starlet' (in badly garbled ebonics) "How did you achieve your success" (paraphrased, I’m not going to type it the way she actually said it), his response was much the same as in this article.. "I spoke English." Bill Cosby's whole ticket to fame has been his skill with the English language, to tell stories that are so funny they make tears run down your cheeks as you almost stop breathing. I remember listening to some of his records at a friend's house when I was a kid back in the sixties. It's called wit, and it takes an educated mind to manufacture it. I've got nothing but the highest respect for Bill Cosby and think he makes a fine role model (mostly, there are a few personal foibles, like a child born outside his marriage) for anyone, black, white, or "other". Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

You might inquire at Para Gear and ask if they have any backlogs of their old catalogs. The great thing about that is you'd get a whole bunch of different makes and models that were on the market for a given year. I remember in the late seventies one of the things we repeatedly had to watch for on gear checks were people who accidently routed their chest straps THROUGH their reserve handles. In those days, cloverleaf and the so called Martin Baker handles were common and often mounted right at, or very close to chest strap level. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

So is oral sex, woman on top and a long list of other fun stuff skydivers are known to enjoy. Doesn't even matter if you're married. "Honey, I can't suck on it, it's against the law...". Same stupid laws passed by the same stupid people who haven't learned yet that it's none of their business. Time was if you wanted a non-stoning rigger you were probably out of luck. A rigger shouldn't work under the influence, just like none of us should jump or drive a car or fly a plane under the influence. Sex under the influence, especially if it's illegal sex, that's another question. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !