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All I can say is ditto.

Om, he golfs too. Wouldn't that be three strikes?

Now it does. What an ass! That was funny

A link that goes nowhere made you laugh?

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA! Now that's Comedy! A couple of swings with a club will only take an hour or so. As Gandalf would say,"Fly you fool!" Someone needs to get a golf club and clear turle's head.

My wife and I rented a van from Enterprise and took it to Florida for 2 weeks from Ohio. We had no trouble and got unlimited mileage. Total for the two weeks was 858 bucks and that included their insurance. We put over 3000 miles on it.

All on my own dime...... and that also include the travel expenses and lodging etc etc... arrrrrggghhh I am spending way too much money.. but its mine..I earned it...and I can spend it any way I want.

That's what I was thinking. Of course the key is training enough fish to swim in the same direction and have that direction be the right direction. We need to convince them that they have no need to panic that it is just a test. They will not be the catch of the day at Seafood Shanty. That said if we all swim in the same direction we could pull this thread down and not get caught in the net

Swim away! The net is coming! I hear the trolling motor! Ever see Finding Nemo? That scene at the end where the fish work together and pull the net down. Interesting physics problem. Could that happen? "Keep Swimming, Keep Swimming"

Yes, everytime I see this topic I say the same thing. So I will not say it since you already did. American Flag All-Stars are the way to go. But since I jump them you are not allowed. You can get any other style you wish. But not American Flag. But definitely go with Chucks.

I ahve only two emails in my mail box. Until today I had never checked it. One from someone here (Sorry Bill, never even knew till now that we had email here.) and one welcoming me to DZ.com (Sorry automated email sender thingy. See above.) Other than those, no spam, no stalkers, no love notes, nothing, nada, zilch, zero, bupkuss. Slutyone - I think those are not Spam - I think you subscribed. You sinner.

We are the Knights who say NI! NI! NI! NI!

Good Question. I have wondered. AerOhio's Otter takes up 23 on a full load. They charge 21 Washingtons for 14500 ft. 21*23=483 of the dead prezs. Last Saturday we did 6 loads 6*483=2898 bucks. I think there might have been one tandem and a couple of coached jumps. Not sure. Say they made 3200 for the day. Does that cover feul, rent, insurance for the property and plane, salaries, electricity, phone, their lawyer, accountant, water, pens, paper, internet, USPA Group Membership, Gear Repairs, etc.? I am sure this is not an all inclusive list of DZO expenses. Granted Saturday was a slow day. But I often wonder, without tandems and AFF could a DZ survive without charging 50 bucks or more a jump? And then how many jumps would actually go up at that price? The whole supply/demand curve. Where would the equilibrium point be? I'm thinking, thank God for tandems.

Thanks bro. I look forward to it, and you gotta PM.

Now here is a classic! Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The owner does not respond.) Customer: 'Ello, Miss? Owner: What do you mean "miss"? Customer: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint! Owner: We're closin' for lunch. Customer: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique. Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it? Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it! Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. Customer: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now. Owner: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! Customer: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead. Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting! Customer: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...(owner hits the cage) Owner: There, he moved! Customer: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage! Owner: I never!! Customer: Yes, you did! Owner: I never, never did anything... Customer: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call! (Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.) Customer: Now that's what I call a dead parrot. Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned! Customer: STUNNED?!? Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Norwegian Blues stun easily, major. Customer: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk. Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. Customer: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home? Owner: The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage! Customer: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there. (pause) Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee! Customer: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised! Owner: No no! 'E's pining! Customer: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!! (pause) Owner: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter) Owner: Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots. Customer: I see. I see, I get the picture. Owner: I got a slug. (pause) Customer: (sweet as sugar) Pray, does it talk? Owner: Nnnnot really. Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!? Owner: Look, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace the parrot for you. Customer: Bolton, eh? Very well. The customer leaves. The customer enters the same pet shop. The owner is putting on a false moustache. Customer: This is Bolton, is it? Owner: (with a fake mustache) No, it's Ipswitch. Customer: (looking at the camera) That's inter-city rail for you. The customer goes to the train station. He addresses a man standing behind a desk marked "Complaints". Customer: I wish to complain, British-Railways Person. Attendant: I DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS JOB, YOU KNOW!!! Customer: I beg your pardon...? Attendant: I'm a qualified brain surgeon! I only do this job because I like being my own boss! Customer: Excuse me, this is irrelevant, isn't it? Attendant: Yeah, well it's not easy to pad these python files out to 200 lines, you know. Customer: Well, I wish to complain. I got on the Bolton train and found myself deposited here in Ipswitch. Attendant: No, this is Bolton. Customer: (to the camera) The pet shop man's brother was lying!! Attendant: Can't blame British Rail for that. Customer: In that case, I shall return to the pet shop! He does. Customer: I understand this IS Bolton. Owner: (still with the fake mustache) Yes? Customer: You told me it was Ipswitch! Owner: ...It was a pun. Customer: (pause) A PUN?!? Owner: No, no...not a pun...What's that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards? Customer: (Long pause) A palindrome...? Owner: Yeah, that's it! Customer: It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of "Bolton" would be "Notlob"!! It don't work!! Owner: Well, what do you want? Customer: I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any longer as I think this is getting too silly! Sergeant-Major: Quite agree, quite agree, too silly, far too silly ...

Well, you can't blame a guy for trying. Okay I come to ZHILLS you buy I meet you anywhere else I buy. And soda is just fine with me.

Well I will not vote as it will skew the vote. I like anything on this list and anything related to anything on this list whether it be by era, genre, or style. Jennifer Knapp T-Bone Ill-Harmonics O.C. Supertones Jeremy Kamp LifeHouse Jars Of Clay George Clinto and P-Funk Duran Duran Violent Femmes Dead Milkmen Depeche Mode Red Hot Chili Peppers Willey Nelson Nora Jones Diana Krall Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington OMD SteppenWolfe Steve Miller Band Fleetwood Mac Genesis Police Tina Turner Prince The Clash The Cult Doobies Steely Dan Beach Boys Jan and Dean Mamas and Papas Sugar Ray REM Dave Mathews Smash Mouth and the list could go on and on. (Especially with 400 cd's in my collection) I am not into any one style as much as I am into music and specific artists. Within each genre I have artists I enjoy and artists I cannot stand.

So, let me get this straight. I got free beer coming to me instead of oweing it for a change?

Chess is by far the greatest game. Openings, mid, endgames, pawn developement, open or closed, man I love that game. Do not get to play much anymore. No-one I know here plays. It is definitely and ego game though. Especially if you start getting into tourney play.

Paige is definitely not ANTI-MALE. Nice post chica. Something I might not have seen and printed off for my daughter's if it was in the women's forums. Thanks

Hey Bytch! When I was down there with you guys I did 68 minutes in the tunnel in two days. It rocked. I did not want to leave either! I was so hooked I tried to convince a friend with enough dough that we should open a wind tunnel here in Columbus. Even offered to work for him free and still pay my own tunnel time if it would get him to invest. I need more tunnel. Where's my tunnel

I have skipped classes to jump. I have ignored homework to jump. I think my GPA will drop from honors this quarter if the whether does not stay nasty in Ohio. Since OCT 5 I have 68 jumps and we could not do any jumps in January and February here. I want my C license by the end of summer before I hit one year in the sport. Does that amke me addicted?

To the Bytch: I, as a newbie, agree with what you said. To everyone else. There are many newbies out here who do listen. So keep preaching. Today I came home to a surprise. My new canopy was in. A Pilot 210. Now I can sell my Hornet 230 and fly a canopy that is all mine, never been anyone else's. But I won't. Yep, I opened the box, looked at the pretty colors, rolled it back up, put it in the bag and will be delivering to Sherry Butcher (Regional Director, USPA and DZO at one of my home DZ's) this Friday. When she says, yep, you handle that 230 well, your canopy skills are good, you have enough experience that I feel you are ready to fly this new canopy, then AND ONLY THEN will I fly it. Till then, she has "custody" of my canopy to ensure I do not get over anxious and find someone who will put it in my rig immediately. And I know this, if I were to put it in my rig, she would not let me jump there. Not worth it, not worth whacking myself over and certainly not worth giving up longevity in this sport over. I would be loading this 210 at just under 1.1:1 which was close to where I was with the Hornet 230 before I lost 12 pounds. But the Pilot is smaller and more aggressive. And it is not a damn Stilletto or Katana or whatever else I have no business having overhead. Do I want to swoop? Boy do I ever. Do I want to go Head Down? Without Question. Do I want to do Crew? Damn skippy. Do I want to fly camera? Tell me where to point. Do I want to fly Bird-Man? You bet your bloomin' ass! So when will I start? When someone I know has nothing but my safety at heart, who has the experience and knowledge, and who I know won't tell me what they think I want to hear, says it is okay to start. I want to do the stuff the cool kids are doing too. And someday I will. But I am listening, and there are many more of us out there who are too. Keep on keeping us safe from our inexperience. If no-one told me, I never would have known. Blue Skies!

We really do not have the facts. None of us knows what happened down there to get this guy killed. Odd that he drowned with equipment in operating order and oxygen left. Maybe whatever happened could have been prevented had a buddy stayed, maybe it couldn't have. The fact is that the buddy system is the norm and he never should have been left alone. Irrelevant of what happened, as far as anyone knows a buddy could have saved him. The questions is, would that be enough to prove negligence? I do not know. In this case, a lawsuit to get the facts in the open might be the way to go. I might have filed, just to get at the truth. And if negligence can be proven then the negligent parties should pay. If not, then I would accept that judgement too as the family member. at least I think I would. Can't really say without being there.

And let's remember that a DZ is a business. And business are in the habit of existing to generate income for their owners. I have not yet heard of a DZ operating as a Charity. I think if I had decided it was worth it to spend the extra cash to get the load up I would have to say so what if the DZO jumped on the load. One slot is no biggy. And if the DZO decided to give the the slot ticket back, cool, and if not, well they had their reasons. I know that I have been fed by a DZO a few times (pizza and what not) and it cost me nothing so I can swallow one lift ticket. If it happened all the time that way however I might get pissy. OF course I do not think I would pay a double slot to get the load up too often. maybe if I HIT SAY 99 AND ONE MORE LOAD GETS ME PIED, WELL THEN THAT MIGHT BE WORTH THE SLOT TO GO UP.