kingbunky

first, you have some very strange friends, but what the hell, you're a skydiver, it was bound to happen. did this question emerge from an alcohol induced haze? it has been my experience that alcohol is very condusive to odd theoretical questions. please keep in mind that it is after midnight on a saturday, so this is an alcohol induced answer! myself? i think i would have to go for the greater good. i would shoot one to save ten, then see if i could live with myself. ...but then again, they said 10 people would die, they didn't say that they would kill the ten people. if the ten people would die anyway, then i would refuse to shoot anyone and take my lumps. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

cool! i'd like a number...

is there a minimun # of jumps required to get a number? i don't meet too many of the requirments, but i'm working at it! i do drive a bmw, so i qualify on that point. ..hate to bring this up, but there's a typo on your list of requirments... should be you're. other than that, cool site! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

i soooo understand where you are coming from Lisa, but in my case, they are my stepsons... the younger one, who will be 19 soon, isn't too bad. he thought he knew it all and didn't need more school. he told the school he wanted to quit, they said he couldn't, by law, until he was 18, so he went back to class and told his teacher to go fuck themselves and got himself expelled. a couple of years of minimum wage burger slinging and he's ready to go get a high school equivalency, and he's paying board. his older brother, OTOH, is driving me insane. he's now 22 and hasn't been in school for 5 years now. can't keep a job for more than a month at best, and doesn't work most of the time (hasn't had a job since last christmas). actually charged me with assault at one time because i shoved him onto a sofa. left us with $2k in phone bills in 2 months one time. tells his mother what he will and won't do etc, etc.... if he was my kid, he'd be living in a cardboard box, but his mother won't do it, his father lives to far away to be of any use at all. i know this isn't any help at all, but you aren't alone!

don't knock it 'til you've tried it! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

yeah, right! it's sucked, it's been fun, i forget some of it, shoulda started skydiving in my 20's instead of 30's, but it's all made me who and what i am. "hang on to your boobs margaret, it's gonna be a rough ride!" "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

well, enough of one to spot the fake! i'm more of a whole package guy.. i find it much less limiting! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

middle of the bottom row?

TEASE!!! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

i think it was gananoque. (did i spell that right?) "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

saw this and thought it summed things up nicely. keep in mind that i am a civil servant unix geek, so the red tape and overmanagement is probable worse than anything scott adams is used to. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense, in a twisted, evil, weasely corporate minded way! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

i was considering a PT Cruiser as well, then i drove one. they need more power in a bad way.... totally gutless. 1/4 mile times you could measure with a calendar, passing requires lots of advance planning. that said, i saw a GT Cruiser prototype that Chrysler had at a car show a couple of years ago, V6, more aggressive styling... they shoulda built them. I also read a hot rod magazine with an article about a guy who shoe-horned a viper engine (V-10) into one. that might have solved the accceleration problems. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

yeah, and i bet they close down the state! a buddy of mine and i were heading south through virginia one winter in the large cars, everyone yelling about all the snow on the cb. we were cruising along at about 65 or so in about 4 inches of slush wondering where the storm was. turned out we were in the middle of it! wimps! i can imagine what they're like when you get further south! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

middle of the runway at the dz last weekend during a boogie... has to rank up there with the weirdest. turns out we were the first to do it, or at least admit to it, so they gave us the runway 01 number

eloquent as usual!

hey, at least you're not blaming canada this time! well, maybe canadian vaginas are partly to blame. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

I can't remember the names of the jumpers, but I do remember reading in Skydiving where a couple took their 3(?!) year old on a tandem. Dad was the tandem master, mom flew camera. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

that's the problem with mainstream movies... they have to appeal to a wide variety of people to be profitable at the expense of authenticity. most people (whuffos in this case) would not notice the discrepancies and errors, but a skydiver would. i like movies with tractor trailers in them, because they never seem to get that right, but as a used-ta-wuz driver, i notice them, even look for them! still, it was a cool movie from an action standpoint. the scene in fandango was awesome as well... i wanted to edit that out and show it to first jump students. just let it run through, then stand up and say, everyone got that? good, let's go skydive then. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

here (5 or 6 variations, search the page for "otter") and here. sorry! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

i just watched cutaway last week... like the man said, skydiving porn! crappy plot, bad acting, cool action shots, and lots of them. kind of liked how they could use the same canopies for freefall, base and lugging a bunch of drugs. seemed very versatile! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

8 hours before they found him? wow, he's lucky to have survived the wait. i can understand the plane heading for an emergency landing, but shouldn't another jumper have followed him down? maybe he was last out? "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001

i'm with you, i love the 182, but there are times something bigger/faster would be nice.

'66 chev 1/2 ton. 300 inline 6, 3 in the tree shifter. original bed rotted off and had been replaced with a wooden one. both trailing arms on the rear end had broken and had been welded, but one had broken again. as a result, if you were following me you could see the whole passenger side of the truck. it was so bad that i could make a right turn into a driveway, but a left turn required lots of advance planning. am radio, but couldn't use it because i replaced the spark plug wires with ones i made from clothes line and the interference rendered it useless. there were holes in the floor so you had to position your feet just so to avoid a shower if it was raining out. and just to make it offically canadian, the body mounts had rotted off and had been replaced with hockey pucks. i loved it!