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  1. Nightingale
    if something looks weird, I ask the person wearing the gear. On the plane, there were a couple of folks who had very strange looking 3rings. It looked almost like the canopies were on backwards, because the bottom ring was visible, but the top two were under the riser, so the 3ring was on the opposite side of the strap that it usually is on. I looked at it for a bit and finally asked. They laughed and assured me that was the way it was supposed to be, it was just a variation on the 3ring I was used to. By asking, I learned something new.
  2. Nightingale
    I'm ambidextrous. I write with my right hand, more from convenience than anything. When I write lefty, I get ink on my hand. But, if I'm taking notes in class and my right hand gets tired, I just switch the pen to the other hand and keep going. Its occasionally freaked out the very observant teacher. I throw righty but bat lefty, again out of convenience. easier to find a right handed mitt, but if I find a left handed one, I can throw lefty too. I paint left handed. and no, when I was little, nobody forced me to use my right hand. It was just whichever hand I happened to initially pick something up with is where it stayed.
  3. Nightingale
    something I learned from hanging out with martial artists for fifteen years: People who brag do so not to convince others of their skill, but to convince themselves. Those who are truly confident in their own abilities have no need to seek glory in the eyes of others.
  4. Nightingale
    casurf posted this in another thread, but I thought it might get lost down there... ________________________________________ Still in Aff so newbie with cap N, dont know if i should be posting here but just a few quick questions to any jms out there. When you get new students can you 'tell' which ones might end up in this thread or ones which just shouldn't be jumping? Have any one of you ever refused to jump with a student for any reason?
  5. Nightingale
    well said.
  6. Nightingale
    since you don't separate your signature file in any way, I'd thought the last line was part of your sig.
  7. Nightingale
    the "decision altitude" where you should've decided whether or not your main's landable or if you need to chop
  8. Nightingale
    analyze it all you want on the ground. In the air, act.
  9. Nightingale
    hehe. I was wondering when someone was going to pick that up.
  10. Nightingale
    lol... the thing is, if you eat it, you don't have it anymore. so you can't eat it and still have it.
  11. Nightingale
    If anyone can help with this, I know you can.... I had a rather bizarre conversation with a friend last night on the phone. (drunk dial on her part... I was sober) Somehow the subject of ...um... killing kittens came up. And we began to try to figure out all the other ways of saying "killing kittens", such as "spanking the monkey" and "flogging the dolphin" and others. can you add to our list?
  12. Nightingale
    poxy boggard
  13. Nightingale
    our SAT scores are good.
  14. Nightingale
    true story. he won a darwin award for it.
  15. Nightingale
    I'll be at Perris on saturday, hopefully finishing up my A license requirements.
  16. Nightingale
    I've always been a bit fond of "stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!"
  17. Nightingale
    3 February 1990, Washington A man tried to commit a robbery in Renton, WA. This was probably his first attempt, as suggested by the fact that he had no previous record of violent crime, and by his terminally stupid choices as listed below: 1. The target was H&J Leather & Firearms, a gun shop. 2. The shop was full of customers, in a state where a substantial portion of the adult population is licensed to carry concealed handguns in public places. 3. To enter the shop, he had to step around a marked Police patrol car parked at the front door. 4. An officer in uniform was standing next to the counter, having coffee before reporting to duty. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a holdup and fired a few wild shots. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, removing him from the gene pool. Several other customers also drew their guns, but didn't fire. No one else was hurt
  18. Nightingale
    you realize, now, that the board knows you haven't been pied, that they will pie you when they see you, because you are owed a pieing.
  19. Nightingale

    Who won?

    Nightingale replied to tunaplanet's topic in The Bonfire

    lol... supposedly Jessica was fooled by the label that read "Chicken of the Sea"
  20. Nightingale

    Who won?

    Nightingale replied to tunaplanet's topic in The Bonfire

    she said in an interview that she slept with Justin Timberlake.
  21. Nightingale
    student loan money IS sent directly to the schools. Personally, its a pain in the ass for me, because I have to wait for my school to issue a refund to me for the extra, so I can buy my textbooks! However, I do understand why they do it. Its to make sure the money goes towards education first.
  22. Nightingale
    I've put some pretty good marks in my helmet due to bad landings. I've seen people wack their heads on the door, or on the bar over the door in the otter. I've seen a guy in the gear shop asking about replacing a broken face mask on his full face helmet because someone kicked him in freefall. If he hadn't had the facemask, he'd have been kicked right in the face. I've heard my AFF instructor tell about his accident when he hit his head on the tail of a plane while doing camera work. I saw a picture of the dent the helmet left in the tail of the plane. Had he made that dent with his head instead of his helmet, he freely acknowledges he'd be dead. Those are my reasons for wearing a helmet. I'm sure there are many more.
  23. Nightingale
    I was also taught to chop first, because the main will probably stay in the bag.
  24. Nightingale
    NO! Education funding is a completely separate issue. Like the article said "what better way to fight drug use than with education?"
  25. Nightingale
    hehe... I thought that was great! Danae and Lucy go tandem!