Dougiefresh

"Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddam right." - Red, Shawshank Redemption Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Now THAT is funny! Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

What, you want a romp in the park too? We might get muddy. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Then unlocks the door and lets the cops in! http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/29/canine.caller.ap/index.html Those service dogs amaze me. I know humans who wouldn't be able to do what this dog did... I think she earned herself an extra romp in the park.

Yes. And don't worry, you'll be fine. Just do what the radio says.

What about bare hands? Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Ah, my plan is coming together nicely... We'll tag team. whoo ha ha ha Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Well, the Sox did win the World series. I think that means you have to share. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

own Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Dude's TV sends out international distress signal. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/18/odd.television.reut/index.html Can you imagine that conversation? Cop: Sir, are you brodcasting at 121.5 MHz? dude: uh..... Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Simple solution. 1. Bring whuffos to DZ. 2. Make whuffos jump. 3. Let ex-whuffos party. And if they don't want to have the best time of their life, then screw 'em. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1297504;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread Here's what I do... works really well to just advertise like crazy that you're going skydiving and let them come to you. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

You mean the collegiate championships 12/27/04 thru 1/1/05? http://www.floridaskydiving.com/schedule.htm Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Sunny is the awesomest ever! Leave her alone, she helps me see boobies. Maybe if we're all really really nice to her, we can ALL see boobies. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

We've got a club at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Basically there are 4 officers, myself and three others, jump #s 500. We jump together and organize "Leapfests": we organize as many people as we can to go down to SDC and do their first tandem. Then we throw a huge party. Lots of fun, but quite a bit of work to get all those people down to SDC and back. Totally worth it though, I've never heard of someone having a bad time. Even if they don't jump they can still party like a rock star all night. It's amazing we can keep it going, as we get no support from the UW. We have SDC to thank... Roger in his infinite wisdom gave us a great deal to help us out. $139 tandems (we get $10 of that), and discounts on all AFP jumps. Nice, eh? The UW sees skydiving as too risky and they don't want to get sued. Seems kind ofa double standard that they'll support whitewater rafting and rock climbing and hang gliding and other risky sports, but not us, despite 11 years of no injuries. Ah well, just another example of skydiver prejudice. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Geez, shouldn't the FAA be alerted about this guy? He's gonna need lights and oxygen if he keeps that up. Pretty kickass. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

If you're really worried about someone thinking you're homosexual becuase of how you wear your necklace A. your attitude about homosexuality could use a close looking at and B. you need to find something to do that takes up all that free time you apparently have to think about ridiculous things like this. Just put it on. Who cares which way it points? Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

The insults that the ugly hurls at blondie in that movie are priceless. One of those movies that should be on everyone's "must watch" list. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

The UW-Purdue game was a good one too... Unfortunately I don't have a tv, so had to listen to it on the radio, but it was still good. There's nothing like rallying from 10 down in the last three minutes to get your heart rate up.

This applies throughout your skydiving career. Always approach this sport with questions and curiosity, the more you know the safer you can be. The real dunces are the people who think they know everything and have stopped learning. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

hmmm... do we know this guy? Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Only psychos eat dougiefresh. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

that's good advice for any part of life, no matter how experienced you are... too bad I suck at it. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

This coming from the paste-eater. Normal? Maybe for a 6 year old. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Ah, Monty Python beat us to it by 30 years... LINKMAN Yes. The Mouse Problem; This week 'The World Around Us' looks at the growing social phenomenon of Mice and Men. What makes a man want to be a mouse. (Interviewer, Harold Voice, sitting facing a confessor. The confessor is badly lit and is turned away from camera.) MR. A (very slowly and painfully) Well it's not a question of wantiing to be a mouse... it just sort of happens to you. All of a sudden you realize... that's what you want to be. INTERVIEWER And when did you first notice these... shall we say... tendencies? MR. A Well... I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er... we had quite a lot to drink... and then some of the fellows there ... started handing ... cheese around ... and well just out of curiosity 1 tried a bit ... and well that was that. INTERVIEWER And what else did these fellows do? MR. A Well some of them started dressing up as mice a bit ... and then when they'd got the costumes on they started ... squeaking. INTERVIEWER Yes. And was that all? MR. A That was all. INTERVIEWER And what was your reaction to this? MR. A Well I was shocked. But, er... gradually I came to feel that I was more at ease ... with other mice. (Cut to linkman.) LINKMAN A typical case, whom we shall refer to as Mr A, although his real name is this: VOICE OVER (and CAPTION) ARTHUR JACKSON 32A MILTON AVENUE, HOUNSLOW, MIDDLESEX. LINKMAN What is it that attracts someone like Mr A to this way of life? I have with me a consultant psychiatrist. (The camera pulls back to reveal the psychiatrist who places in front of himself a notice saying 'The Amazing Kargol And Janet '.) KARGOL Well, we've just heard a typical case history. I myself have over seven hundred similar histories, all fully documented. Would you care to choose one? (Janet [Carol Cleveland], dressed in showgirl's outfit, enters and offers Linkman the case histories fanned out like cards, with one more prominent than the others; he picks it out.) KARGOL (without looksing) Mr Arthur Aidridge of Leamington. LINKMAN Well, that's amazing, amazing. Thank you, Janet. (chord; Janet postures and exits) Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist as opposed to a conjuror... KARGOL (disappointed) Oh... LINKMAN ...what makes certain men want to be mice? KARGOL Well, we psychiatrists have found that over 8% of the population will always be mice. I mean, after all, there's something of the mouse in all of us. I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't felt sexually attracted to mice. (Linkman looks puzzled) I know I have. I mean, most normal adolescents go through a stage of squeaking two or three times a day. Some youngsters on the other hand, are attracted to it by its very illegality. It's like murder - make a thing illegal and it acquires a mystique. (Linkman looks increasingly embarrassed) Look at arson - I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have. (phone on desk rings; the Linkman picks it up but does not answer it) The only way to bring the crime figures down is to reduce the number of offences - get it out in the open - I know I have, LINKMAN (replacing phone) 'l'he Amazing Kargol And Janet. What a lot of people don't realize is that a mouse, once accepted, can fulfil a very useful role in society. Indeed there are examples throughout history of famous men now known to have been mice. (Cut to Julius Caesar [Graham Chapman] on beach. He shouts 'Veni Vidi, Vici'. Then he adds a furtive squeak. Napoleon [Terry Jones] pulls slice of cheese out of jacket and bites into it. Cut to Linkman) LINKMAN And, of course, Hillaire Belloc. But what is the attitude... (Cut to man in a Viking helmet.) VIKING ...of the man in the street towards... LINKMAN ...this growing social problem? (Vox pops films.) WINDOW CLEANER Clamp down on them. OFF-SCREEN VOICE How? WINDOW CLEANER I'd strangle them. STOCKBROKER Well speaking as a member of the Stock Exchange I would suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows and orphans and go into South American Zinc. FIRST MAN Yeh I'd, er, stuff sparrows down their throats, er, until the beaks stuck out through the, er, stomach walls. ACCOUNTANT Oh well I'm a chartered accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest. VICAR I feel that these poor unfortunate people should be free to live the lives of their own choice. PORTER I'd split their nostrils open with a boat hook, I think. SECOND MAN Well I mean, they can't help it, can they? But, er, there's nothing you can do about it. So er, I'd kill 'em. (Cut to linkman.) LINKMAN Clearly the British public's view is a hostile one. VOICE OVER (and CAPTION) 'HOSTILE' LINKMAN But perhaps this is because so little is generally known of these mice men. We have some film now taken of one of the notorious weekend mouse parties, where these disgusting little perverts meet. (Cut to exterior house (night). The blinds are drawn so that only shadows of enormous mice can be seen, holding slices of cheese and squeaking.) LINKMAN'S VOICE Mr A tells us what actually goes on at these mouse parties. (Cut to Mr A.) Mr A Well first of all you get shown to your own private hole in the skirting board... then you put the mouse skin on... then you scurry into the main room, and perhaps take a run in the wheel. LINKMAN The remainder of this film was taken secretly at one of these mouse parties by a BBC cameraman posing as a vole. As usual we apologize for the poor quality of the film. (Very, poor quality film, shadowy shapes, the odd mouse glimpsed.) Mr A'S VOICE Well, er, then you steal some cheese, Brie or Camembert, or Cheddar or Gouda, if you're on the harder stuff. You might go and see one of the blue cheese films... there's a big clock in the middle of the room, and about 12.5o you climb up it and then ...eventually, it strikes one... and you all run down. (Cut to a large matron with apron and cawing knife) LINKMAN'S VOICE And what's that? Mr A'S VOICE That's the farmer's wife. (Cut to the linkman at desk.) LINKMAN Perhaps we need to know more of these mice men before we can really judge them. Perhaps not. Anyway, our thirty minutes are up. (Sound of baa-ing. The linkman looks up in air, looks startled, pulls a gun fiom under the desk and fires in the air. The body of a sheep falls to the floor.) LINKMAN Goodnight. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams