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    No, no, apparently, I can't. Elvisio "not very many Rodriguezes in Nigeria" Rodriguez
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    HELLO SIR! My name is being Elvisio Rodriguez, and I am hoping my writing finds you in very good health. I am very interesting in paying you your full asking price for your first rate condition parachute system. Please understand that I do have a situation with which I need your help. I am being writing to you from Nigeria, and I have a sister in the Americas who needs money for her schooling. I would like to being sending you a check for the full cost of your parachute as well as adding some monies for her...... Elvisio "chortle" Rodriguez
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    ..and would probably win. Elvisio "changed sig line to avoid move to SC" Rodriguez
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    I don't think we should be thinking about getting rid of Skyhooks, OR RSLs. I DO think the lesson learned here is to know what you are jumping, and truly understand how that system (whatever it may be) works. ALSO, I think another lesson learned here is to think long and hard about what system you choose when you are buying (don't even get me started about borrowing) new gear. Consider your skill level, consider the type of flying you do, consider the inherent risks that come with the added safeties of each system, and make the choice that will best help you sleep at night. Elvisio "what I figgur" Rodriguez
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    Dude, if the airspeed indicator doesn't work, what else doesn't, or won't when it's needed? Elvisio "sitting this one out" Rodriguez
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    Definitely will. Especially if my workplace offers it for free, as they damn well better (hospital). Immunity rocks! Elvisio "more fun taking sick days when not actually sick" Rodriguez
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    MWAAHAAAHAAAA! I already got 'em all, wrapped up into one! Elvisio "married well, well married" Rodriguez
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    Spent the daytime hanging around my firehouse. Spent the nighttime hanging around my rescue squad. Nothing much happened; in the grand scheme of things that's a good thing. Elvisio "bored responders = safe community" Rodriguez
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    "Strange game. The only winning move is... not... to... play." Ah, who knew a fictional cold war-era supercomputer would have such deep insight into the circuits of our hearts? ...and other body parts for that matter. Elvisio "dammit, stop calling me Joshua, my name is WOPR" Rodriguez
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    For those NOT in the know (like me): what I know so far: a formerly emo- turned metal opera band. Anyone a fan of Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime, the album that was a story? Well, these guys have made one long story out of their FOUR albums. For a taste, check out "Welcome Home" by them if you have access to iTunes or a file-sharing equivalent. It's the song that plays during the trailer for "9" if anyone has checked that out. For those IN the know: Do I need to buy the albums in order to keep from getting confused? Or just dive in and piece it all together later? Elvisio "jammin guitar action" Rodriguez
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    Swoop distance. Or using the accelerometer to count how many times your ass skips across the pond before stopping? Elvisio "swoopless" Rodriguez
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    Tell it to do a leg check. Or, teach it to do propeller turns. Elvisio "c'mon, it's a skydiving website, ain't it?" Rodriguez
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    Soccer (sorry to all the furriners, "football") players are such weenies. Always rolling around on the ground trying to get the call... Elvisio "a hockey player wouldn't have missed a shift" Rodriguez
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    You can check out youtube for videos of parkour or street running and see some pretty sweet PLF's off of tall walls and two story buildings and whatnot; but from terminal velocity? You first! Elvisio "knees hurt just thinking about it" Rodriguez
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    They are ALL the work of Satan. College: years of working so hard to fill my brain cells with knowledge, and simultaneously trying to kill those same cells with alcohol. Most days, I think knowledge won. Most days. Elvisio "
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    I work in a surgical/trauma/BURN intensive care unit. I assure you, burned human flesh smells NOTHING like chicken. Elvisio "that is all" Rodriguez
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    250 Mil

    skydiver30960 replied to SARLDO's topic in The Bonfire

    Sounds like it's time for a $1 dream. Elvisio "it's the idiot tax, I know" Rodriguez
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    St. Thomas, St. Croix, Antigua, someplace WARM with lots of water. Elvisio "working on it" Rodriguez
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    Classic. Post of the week, no doubt. Elvisio "I, too, got a lotta bitches to plow" Rodriguez
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    How'd you get the "highshot" in a residential neighborhood? Taller building nearby? Cherrypicker? Low pass while being pursued by a police helicopter a-la-Fandango? Nice pad dude. Me and the wife are saving for the down payment, I'm jealous. Elvisio "sick of renting" rodriguez
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    At Orange, all beer fines are paid in GOOD, BOTTLED beer. Humiliation awaits those who feel they can pay their beer fines in cheap canned beer. Elvisio "bring on the kicking beer!" Rodriguez
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    I'll have to refer my friend Sarah Putnam to this thread! Elvisio "she'd dig it, she's wicked smart" Rodriguez
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    A funny and at least somewhat-related story... Many years ago at the Convention, one of the CASAs flying had the relief tube in place near the door. It was just dangling there and one of the obviously female and obviously new-to-the-sport jumpers in the first group asked what it was for. One of the obviously male and obviously "old-salt" jumpers from the same group says "oh, that's how you talk to the pilot. If you want to give a course correction on jump run you just talk into that. The sound waves run through the tube up to the cockpit. Try it out and say hi to them." She stands up and makes her way to the relief tube. Her friends waited until she was actually reaching for the thing before they stopped her and let her in on the joke. Needless to say, the whole plane was in on the joke by then. Elvisio "damn funny tho" Rodriguez
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    I've heard stories from over-worked pilots on crazy-busy days at the DZ who, after all the jumpers exited, would trim for level flight, check for traffic, boogie back to the door and take care of business, then boogie back to the cockpit. Names have been omitted to protect the small-bladdered. Elvisio "Oh No! Blowback!" Rodriguez
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    Get into Intensive Care Medicine! It answers most of your problems: Quote 1.) Dumb ass questions, My patients are often intubated! Even better, intubated, sedated, and paralyzed! No questions whatsoever! 2.) 4-5 calls from the same patient a day lasting 10 or more minutes for the same thing which has been answered the 1st time they called, See number 1 above. 3.) people who have no sense of hygiene and smell so bad you dry heave, This one you have to deal with. But at least after you bathe the stinky ones a few times they stop stinking so bad. 4.) patients who let infections go so long to the point the only course is hospitalization, Well, this is often why they end up with me. At least we get to fix them. 5.) they refuse all referrals to specialist then get pissed because nothing is working or helping, Hooray for emergent consent in the ICU environment! 6.) and then the nut jobs.... Refer to number 1 above. C'mon over! Elvisio "tube 'em all" Rodriguez