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Thanks for posting that. As soon as I heard of the compensation deal I was kinda frowning a bit, but when I started seeing people on the news complaining that they deserved more money so they could cope with their loss better I wanted to do some serious bitch slapping. I mean, come on, I'm far from perfect, but crap, people think they should get money for everything nowadays. I don't want to belittle any pain and suffering these people are feeling, but it strikes me as screwed up to get greedy over something that's totally unprecedented and maybe a little suspect anyway. Whew, I'll climb down off that soapbox now

Ahaa!! I knew there had to be some sort of catch somewhere in there. Thanks much for that little bit of trivia. Truman Sparks for President

Wow, hadn't thought of The City of Lost Children for a while. That is a slightly strange one, but I loved it. I thought the flea things were kinda cool, too. Truman Sparks for President

cool! I think when I heard some of the numbers they were telling me I promptly filed them in the too good to be true category and started questioning whether or not I'd heard them right. I'm seriously thinking that I may have to commit to the nuke training. Hard work, but the reward for that work does look good fromwhere I'm sitting. Truman Sparks for President

I think maybe most of us young punks have the attention span of gnats, and if it ain't flashy then our attention wanders. Of course, I WAS remiss to leave out Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I LOVE that one

Whoohoo!! Congrats, maybe someday I'll reach this magical point you've attained Truman Sparks for President

The Crow Almost Famous American Beauty The Boondock Saints (good call AD) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hell, I just love movies

Excellent choice if I may say so myself. Not high enough to be a pain, but still high enough to fall properly. Ok, let's see, uh, how's the weather? Truman Sparks for President

Oh dear god, the horror, the horror. Well, there's always ports, right? Maybe I'll be one of those sailors with woman in every port Truman Sparks for President

I don't know if I can support mindless post whoring

aww, hell now, I'd have to do carriers all the way. I'm 6'4", there's no freakin' way I could fit on a sub for that long. The one time I was on one taking a tour I had a cramp in my neck after 10 minutes

LOL, yeah, they are defintiely, um, tradition rich. Oh, well, I'm sure there must be women who like them somewhere

Ok, here's the deal. They're hitting me up pretty hard trying to get me to go into the nuke program, and my problem is I don't know if I should do that. My evaluation of the situation turned this up: pros: !. be an E-4 in 6 months rather than two years 2. extra $12,000 enlistment bonus 3. if I re-up there's a $60,000 bonus!! (not sure of the details on how it's disbursed yet, but DAMN!) 4. great job market after I'm out cons: 1. 6 year enlistment 2. 2 years worth of physics crammed into 6 months 3. 40 hours of those classes per week with apprx. 30 hours more studying for 1 1/2 years or so Now, if anyone has some advice as far as should I do this or go for a defferent rating I'd love to hear about it

"You'll shoot your eye out!" and the infamous triple-dog-dare. Yep, one of the best

yep, sounds about right. I've got to totally brag on my state when it comes to the coservation department. They do know what they're doing most of the times. Not to mention a lot of my friends got a lot of nice deer. Me, I only saw one really nice one, a 14 pointer, but my dad got an 8 pointer, my cousin a 6 pointer, and a couple of friends I work with got a 10 and a 12. It was crazy! Truman Sparks for President

Yeah, missouri isn't the toughest place in the world to get a deer either, if you hunt the right spots. Of course, throw in a bow or black powder and it makes it a bit more challenging. Bottom line for me, though, is that venison is one of my all time favorite meats, and this chili is gonna rack when I finish cooking it Truman Sparks for President

Oh yeah, this is totally possible. I've got a video with Troy Hartman and some other guy going up with a bunch of ballons. Of course they don't jump, they land the damn things! If memory serves me correctly they use several tanks of water combined with popping the balloons to control their rate of descent. Pretty cool, really. Truman Sparks for President

Gotta agree, AD. Hell, just a few weeks ago I was out trying to shoot Bambi & Co. Didn't get anything personally, but had a great time helping my dad and cousin process theirs. Of course, there's a time and place for everything, and the office and the carcass, they just don't mix. (hmm, it's lunch time now, so I think I'm gonna have to cook some of Bambi up. All this talk is getting to me!) Truman Sparks for President

Congratulations on knowing and being so close to someone who was so obviously amazing. It sucks how life isn't always the nice disney thing maybe it ought to be, but then again, maybe the whole point is to take the pain and make it into something beautiful. If so, you've done a marvelous job of doing just that. Truman Sparks for President

$20 and I'm in! And here I thought that if I wanted to even have a chance I'd have to clean up. Whew!! On a side note, supposing there's a God and a heaven, do ya really think He'd appreciate this? Watch out for lightning, I think. Truman Sparks for President

I went right on through burnt out and on into don't give a damn any more. Of course, I'm 22 and I work in retail where I deal with lots of dumbasses every day, not to mention that in a month or so I'll be in the Navy so I'll get to be burnt out on a whole new sort of life. The again, maybe not, cause they're gonna make me be a rigger for them Truman Sparks for President

oh yes, details would be awesome. I heard a while ago that this thing was for real, but I couldn't find any info on what the hell the specs are If anyone finds out post it soonest. All this curiosity I think I know how cats feel.

Good point. Of course there's also the fact that I get so much joy from being there to call bullshit on them Truman Sparks for President

I wish I could have, but then I think that maybe my embarassing him in front of his little woman made up for it. She seemed to be believing him hook, line and sinker, and then I busted him. I just straight up told him, man, i'm really good frinds with the dzo, I managed to avoid screwing up completely while on student status, and I still had to go through every step to get where I am, and I still wouldn't dream of trying to skysurf, not to mention who in the hell actually believes this psycho motorcycle story? I mean come on, they don't even try to pull that off in really crappy action movies! He turned bright red and walked out pretty quick. I think most of these people get there bubbles burst just by having bullshit called on them. Truman Sparks for President

Hehehe, I had an experience a lot like that once. I was working one night by myself and this guy walks into the store. Now, it's a fireworks store, so we usually got all kinds of interesting folk, but this guy was classic. I was wearing a skydiving tee as well, and just like with you, the guy starts going on about how he's a skydiver. He asks me if I ever tried skysurfing, except he described it as "that one thing with the snowboard strapped to your feet." That was when my bullshit detector went off. What topped it all off for me was when he started to tell me why he got out of skydiving. He says that he was so good that he got to skip a lot of the classes and go straight to skysurfing, but then he got in a motorcycle wreck. This gentleman said he was riding on his Dinalli (sp.?) when a semi-truck pulled out in front of him. He says he didn't want to lay it down since he was doing about 100 mph, and he saw a light pole, so he promptly "dove off the bike, grabbed the pole, swung around a whole lot to slow down and then let go." He wasn't hurt, but his wife made him quit taking risks. What do you do?