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I met a girl during happy hour at an El Torito. Her dad and brother both played major league baseball. She had just broken up with an Angels shortstop. We hit it off pretty well and I decided to ask her to a hockey game. Not just any game. This was Wayne Gretzky's first ever game as an LA KING!!! We both lived in the OC so it was a bit of a drive to the Fabulous Forum. When I picked her up in my truck she was offended. "Where's your BMW?" she asked. Well I sure as hell wasn't going to take my BMW to a Kings game and park it at the Forum. She also had a foam cooler with 8 beers in it. WTF? She popped one beer after another on the way and ranted and raved about baseball, her family and her ex. All the way up the 405 fwy. By the time we got to the game I wanted to push her under the Zamboni. Needless to say, I just watched the game, marveled at the Great One's abilities and threw back a couple of $6 beers myself. On the ride home she had to stop and pee 4 times. I wanted to leave her at the AM/PM at each stop. When I got to her house I just said "get out". That was the last I saw her until one day last year a friend called me to watch the "Housewives of OC". Yup, there she was in all her pain in the ass glory. The best date ever was a blind date at Karl Strauss Brewery with a really hot blonde chic. Ten years later we're still dating (and married).

The only person in the republican party scarier than Palin.

Future DZ owner...no doubt.

We have been Socialists for years. Free medical care for all, free education, free money for farmers, free money for corporations, free money for rich folks, free money for poor folks...and on and on. This dilemma we are in didn't start 2 years ago. It's been brewing for years. Going on the Crusades to the Middle East didn't help the nations piggy bank either. Politicians at local levels are knucklheads. When cities and states decided to be business men and build stadiums, arenas and convention centers they screwed the pooch. A city has three jobs. Keep the trash picked up, the fires put out and the bad guys in jail. The state of America has been heading this way for years. Now back to Fox News.

When you don't have oil money behind you, you need to raise some clams somehow.

Sparky has forgotten more about skydiving than you will ever know, he could kick your ass up and down the runway, with energy left to buy a round of beer at the bar and ride off into the sunset with a hottie on the back of his Harley. You are wrong about the t shirts. He wears his old FD shirts. Chics dig firemen more than skydivers.

He didn't have a good health plan..

Way back in the last century when I had about 200 jumps I had 2 out. 8 way, it went great. On break off I went all Skygod and cleared everyone and started doing barrel rolls. (maybe this should be in the stuoopid things i have done thread.) I looked down and damn, those cars looked really big! I tossed my PC while I was coming out of a roll and it went right between my butt and rig. I arched really hard and smacked my container. Still going 120! F this and I pulled silver. This was on a Javelin with no AAD. Out comes this big lovely yellow Raven 2. Sweet, I lived! Then oh Shit! Here comes a scary blue Sabre 190. The main was fully inflated behind the reserve. They flew pretty well together. A guy on our jump was flying around me yelling to cut away. My heart was beating pretty fast and my mind was spinning. I just had this conversation with Jim Wallace about pilot chutes in tow and two out situations. His advice, stay calm and work through it. So I tried to stay calm. I looked at the wind sock. I slowly put the main into a side by side with the reserve. I grabbed the main risers with my left hand and cut away. I toggle turned my reserve into the wind and released my main. I landed about 30 seconds later. I had long discussions with every instructor at the DZ that afternoon, including Jim. Being an idiot at break off almost killed me. Staying calm saved me. I probably could have landed both in the configuration they were in. I haven't done a barrel roll since, that was 1992.

Ford Credit took almost 16 billion in government loans in 2008.

The Bonfire is more than just "boobies". Thanks for all of the great help everyone.

Another convert, sweet!

A couple of the stories revolve around firefighter hockey tournaments.

Some of the stories are very short, just a page or two. It will be an easy read, and very funny.

I'm writing a book about my 34 years in the fire service. It's 50 of the funniest firehouse stories during my career. If you are in the book biz, give me a call. I have a few technical questions. Thanks!

Proof that high ratings don't relate to intellectual content. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/24/us-television-idUSTRE70N6S620110124 And Sean Hannity is the biggest dunce on TV. I love watching him, he's so hilarious. And when he has his beauty queen girls on to discuss politics is great. No wonder he gets high marks. Don't we get to waterboard that loser soon??

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A jumper at Perris sat down on the back bench of the Otter years ago like we all do. There's that nice big opening right behind the bench with a ledge about reserve pin height. Yup, out flew the reserve on take off, right onto the floor next to the door. We were at rotation. I'm really glad the door was closed. It was summer and hot as hell. Shut the door. All the way.

Nice post kid. I was sitting around at LP this weekend discussing the current state of skydiving. I think that while our sport has moved into an incredible direction for flying abilities, it has really digressed in social abilities. Regarding the WFFC. We all used to jump together. That's how we all met each other. Today we have four distinct groups of jumpers. Belly RW, Freefly, Wingsuit and Swoopers. Sure, I know many of you that do all four, but that's pretty rare these days. We aren't meeting each other and forming those lifelong friendships anymore. (I know, que up the sad music soundtrack for the old guy) I really enjoyed meeting some of the newer jumpers at LP. I'm also lucky that I get to meet a lot of jumpers by hosting a yearly boogie. Maybe I'm just a sentimental old fart, but I think tradition in our sport needs to be preserved. Young jumpers like yourself are perfect candidates for upholding. ps. There were computers in the 80's...who knew!

http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/parks/Camping/info.html http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=662

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Video also killed the boogie stars. That is going to be a new LP song I think.

Vacations are great. Antipate going, doing, and then happy to get home. I hear skydiving in Central America does wonders for Skymamas...

LP sucked this year... THREE, yes, THREE women beat me at poker... How humiliating.

The first time I went to Oz, it was 1usd to 2.04 Aud, 1999.

Where is that shot taken? Moab?