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Someone told me about Squirting Ketchup on the side of the plate then dipping like french fries. Yuck until you try it I have passed that on for 35 years, Everyone that tries it hasnt gone back. Even my fussy wife eats them that way as of two days ago.

I worked on the original De Lorean in Roseville michigan . His head engineer was the only engineer ever fired by American Motors.If he wasnt good enough for them making the Alliance with Frances car company Renault. De Lerium as his wife called him deserved him. As far as the Yugo .it was a 1971 Fiat that still had the dies ready for the scrap yard . They bought, cleaned them .built them then put a Yugo emblem on them and called them Yugos . By the way Fiat is an acronym for "Fix it again Tony" As far as Delorean comig up with the "GTO" another scam . It was another guy on his teams idea that he claimed as his own.. I met him when the first models were cut what a jerk.

I look at it as the girl admits she might have a flaw from mother nature. That makes her a real person. If she wore contacts or was legally blind, and had to use her sewn in silicone front bumpers to keep from smashing into walls. We have an optometrist in Detroit that advertises "SEXY-SPECS",love the girls in the ads. We also have a senator Carl Levin that has found wearing glasses to complicated. With his comb-over hair-do is now trying to decide Iraq policy.One end of the spectrum to the other with just glasses.

It wouldnt be a C-207 Because it has to have a cargo area between the normal fire-wall and engine. The main gear is a lot thicker fore-aft than a 206. Counting windows it could even be a C-182 wide body. the video showed up blurry and hard to stop.

The way I got he would let them use his LAKE in DZ if they gave him a part. I unfortunately have the movies , His line as bartender was repeating the drink order.

Seems to me he was in two movies. . He was a bar tender in one with 5 or 6 words.Something about using his LAKE [sea-plane] clinched the deal. Cutaway he had a family near a tent Dont remember the words spoken though. Kind of like Hitchcock movies to use his gear.

A couple of Novembers ago Chris Owens [now of Eloy]and I took up the last load of tandems for the sundownish load. There was a front coming and there wasnt going to be jumping the next day.. Climbout was fine, After leaving the plane at 13000 I noticed it was different than the last jumo. Freezing rain ,I didnt wear gloves with the time factorto get the load up. I was able to scrape the ice on my goggles with a thumb nail to read my altimeter. It was a surprise when my student wanted to go right back up never even knowing what we just did.

We did FL24 at marshall Mi a few years ago Also Lima Quincy Rantoual. and Richmond. . It is a fun jump with a little briefing. Oxygen only in the plane, and a no-show exit. The Halo at FL33 or so is a long class, no drinking the night before ,and the worst for me no beards or mustache . Thats to use their oxygen mask in freefall . You could use their gear or yours. Again no-show exit. Mullins does a great job as always. Pick your favorite and have fun. I couldnt justify the price for the meager altitude increase proportionalto the expense,to go higher.

Do you know why all Canadians do it doggie style? That way both can watch the hockey game.

The motor -driven Nikon-F that only weighed 14 pounds complete camera, motor drive, and battery pack. There was a motorixed OlympusOM-1 that had a detachable pistol grip switch and battery pack . You could put it in your jump suit and run wires down the sleeve for a switch. It could come with a winder at two frames a second but the motor drive was five to six.I still have an N-6 gun sight Corsair "BaaBaa Black Sheep " 16 mm movie camera set up. You wore a pistol belt with "D" batteries soldered in series to make the 24 volts . with a coat hanger sight readt to go.. You could show the movies next week-end if all went well and you found a 16mm projector.. Not like today were you can view it walking back from landing and mysteriously erases if you screwed up.

If I remember this movie it was from the southwest but not Elsinore. They had a student doing solo jumps from a Stinson.There was also a Twin Beech that was used for night jumps only.A few people bounced.In town ther was a jumper bar without any posters. No bar stools with broken legs repaired with broken pool cues duct taped on to repar them Knew right then it was a fake. Even the ceiling tiles looked like they never got torn down by a desperate effort of a collapsing five stack pyramid. No one puking in a bucket trying to pass "Cardinal Puff".Not at all like normal jump bars of the day

Harold Lange at what is now Sky Dive Tecumseh had "CB" radios that had people saying "Do you want fries with your order"? We had some radios that were cheap and we turned the squelch down and talked anyway. A student would turn left , when asked why later would say thats what they heard even if you were the only one talking . Luckily one was told to cut away high. Finally got better radios after that. Backin her down Good Buddy 10-4

Very good one of my favorites. What movie had "When Mrs Kissel breaks wind we beat the dog."? Does any one remember the govener in "Blazing Saddles" name. It translates to Govener Fart in French . So Mel Brookes, How about "Some one go back to town and get a shit pot full of dimes"

Detroit also has a Hot Rod show next month like the new car show going on as I write.You can also sell cars in the back corner. This guy had a Suburban that his buddy helped put in a new over head light. they kind of drilled a little to far and went through the roof, but didnt notice the screws sticking out until they got out. If they pulled it out it would leak and a car top carrier sort of covered it a little. The car got stolen the insurance paid off oh well. He was at the show and saw one just like his only a different color. It even had a screw sticking through the roof with matching paint of the new color on it. They told the cops there then called the number on the for sale sign in the window and waited. Needless to say the new owner didnt get a refund on his ticket back in either.

I was leaving a Home Depot when guy pulled into a parking space . after he got out he gave a shopping cart a shove. It coasted to a stop right in the middle of two handicapped parking spaces .I asked if he was going to move it again? He said no let them move it themselves. I said thats why they have those spaces because they cant easily. I suggested he move it he said fuck 'em . After he went inside I totally surronded his truck with 20 carts, and drive home with compliments of other shoppers. A radio guy "Mr. Mannnly" had a note to put on cars that parked poorly. "If you make love as bad as you park ,I can see why your wife has to go to the proctologist all the time" I came out of a store to find a newly parked two feet over the line and resting up against my bumper. I left a note saying how thankful I was able to be back wall of his garage for him while away from home. I also wrote you too have a surpise coming. The PS said "I sure hope you got the extended warranty your going to need it". My wife is in a wheel chair and I am a little testy to handicapped abusers. Warren Michigan has a cop that signaled my wife to come over to his car in the winter with snow coming down eating a donut and coffee with his lights flashing . When my mother-in-law brought her crutches around for her he turned them off. I told her she should of went over to his car and asked for his badge number and his bosses too, then walk as slow as possible into the store for all to see. She didnt . The Stewart guys from Richmond Indiana "If you want to piss a cop off ask him how many donuts he can fit on his gear shift lever?" Bless you guys.

All my clouds ,baby plane and unit, comet, even my sabres had three out of the cascade one length and the line inboard longer to tuck the tail only on flares.If you look at the photos.the steering lines go all the way across to the split tail the same length. not just the outer cells. My sabre1 had a seperate line on each side for flare and was stowed like the rest of the suspension lines. Almost like the tandem system.

Another of the other 9999, verses of "Plastic Jesue "." I can go fast and its not scary cause I got me a Virgin Mary riding on the dashboard of my car".By the way I didnt see anyone get the third quote on the original post as being from "Fandango"Amazingly good first jump course.Does anyone what movie the statement from the Bureau of Indian Affairs "Endeavour to Persevere" came from? "O J W "

My only jump on a Sled was only 1/2 a jump. Pete Myks just bought it with a two year out of date reserve in a Cross Bow. I couldnt see wasting a pack job to see it. I barely had the rip cord out of the housing and Wham, It broke the left lower steering at the brake loop. By the way the Tri-Con worked just fine. The split tail and same line length steering lines across the tail was unique . It remained under the counterfor years after that, a shame really.

I was mostly refering to the main container. The pin was actually your PC bridle line folded over lenghth wise then in half width wise to be stuffed into your elastic closing loop. It was one of the first rigs using a pull-up cord. I took off my belly band pilot chute pouch and sewed it on as a BOC. When I got my first Ed Mosher "Swing- Wing" jump suit. With the harness worn inside your jump suit. it was the only way. I just looked at an old video from 1979 demo jumo four way . Two swing wings and all four riser realease systems One shots ,R-2s R-3s and my three ring. I want to show the kids what we had to endure as state of the art gear. His ad had the model wearing a "Darth Vader" helmit.

I will begin my 40th year on Sept 8th 2007 .My first was with a 28 ft rag from a C-175 ,we brought to the DZ . their plane didnt show up so we used ours.

I looked through the list on a post above me. I didnt see the log book notation for accuracy. In the PC and rag days "TFFTM" was quite common on windy days it stood for To Fucking Far To Measure".I am sure many seasoned jumpers will remember it well. "GPS" is really Guess Pretty Sure , not get perfect spots.

I disagree with your statement "Three rings was part of the original Wonderhog". I got my first wonderhog in 1976 and they werent out yet. Three more rigs after that didnt either . My 1979 finally did with the round bottom ring and folded main lift webbing. In case anyone wants to know "R-2s" had a folded back tubular webbing with a turn-back on the bottom to pull .It was held in place with an elastic and velcro wrap. The "R-3s" had two inch webbing and a clear plastic tube about 5/8s diameter sewn cross ways for the handle to pull. Capewell was the name of the company that made the canopy inter-change possible. I have a few "WW11" rigs that the riser was part of the rig no detachment . there are solid links on them then the canopy line were sewn to them , If you had a worn harness it all went .I f the canopy had a rip again it all got thrown out. The government finally said there has to be a better way . Thus Capewells definitely not for cutaways. My 1964 Crossbow had an RSL despite USPA newbies insisting they have only been out a few years. It only connected to the left side riser so you always tried to chop both sides at the same time for obvious reasons. Does anyone remember what the pin was made out of on the first Wonderhogs?

I have a bath tub mat with a hundred 1/2 inch suction cups on the bottom. The sign engraved on it says "This side down" Glad they helped on that one. In regards to the "Trailer in tow"post above me .I saw a "Race car in tow" on a Chevy emblem in the back window of a Plymouth being towwed. When the Pontiac Aztek came out I magic markered a sign on the front said "Lose a bet" I showed the owners at stop lights. They mostly looked confused for two seconds. The flip side said "Does one fingre mean yes" I was asked by the cashier at a gas station what I was starring at and laughing . I asked her who made the sign behind her. She said the manager. I said there are 17 words and 6 are misspelled . She looked around and said Oh Ya which ones?

I had one of the Baby-Planes, We were supposed to exit from 7500. After as short free fall and pull. we were supposed to try some turns and a flare high . Well my first wasnt quite that way. We had 2800 windy demo on to a frozen lake It all went well in spite of it self. Later I had three Clouds with the same ropes and rings. John Sherman was one of our local riggers with connections to the Golden Knights. We would get the latest Monday packing tips Fold the nose then the OSI . Then the Friday tips "dont use Mondays any more" roll the tail then the OSI. My first cloud had the 1000# white line with clove hitches and half hitches knot with heat shrink covers. The others had 1000 micro line that also had to be replaced for the God-Sent Slider. I made a line machine to reline the canopys easily.The pack volume wasnt so bad if you took about 8 hours and a dozen razor blades to de tape them, actually got them to fit a Para-commander container. Some of you guys must have been terrible packers ,I remember getting almost to 20 without a cutaway. I never had a strato cloud with those high faluting stabalizers. My Unit was the first with those#26. Oh by the way I had a steering flap sewn onto my baby plane ,Didnt help all that much.As far as the two MA-1s I got one of those Grabber pilot chutes with Snyders Swivel to stop bridle line twists. Hope this brought memories.

I never have but I saw Delta 11 and para-dactyl ,actually attached to risers that way. They were side packed as compared nose down Para-commander and rounds. My worst recollection of an on purpose backwards pack job was at Quincy. The guy had it that way to film three-way canopy stacks at a C-182 DZ from the front. He forgot about multi plane exits and took out someone from another load, because he never had to worry about it back home.I think both were killed needlessly.