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If I remember correctly, there's a fairly large contingent of Texas jumpers who make the trip each year, but I don't remember which DZ they come from. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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A couple ideas: One day of pain - Put an ad in the local newspaper advertising a yard sale at his house starting at say 7 AM on a Saturday. Throw a couple big ticket items in and be sure to include his phone number. More extended pain - Go to a local magazine store and take the little subscription postcards out of several gay/fetish/fat chick/swinging mags (whatever he won't like) and maybe some knitting or quilt-making mags just for good measure. Sign him up with the "bill me later" box checked. He'll get a few issues of each before he'll be able to convince them he didn't order the subscription and will not be paying for it, and he'll be getting junk mail from those types of business for years to come. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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These two live in the bedroom next to mine. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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I don't know what BJJ is, but I've been in an awful lot of fights and always take them to the ground. Once there, my wrestling experience (11 years) almost always gives me the upper hand. It's really pretty funny...I use the "say uncle" bit in real fights, and it usually works. They don't always say the actual word, but far more often than not, they yield from either pain or lack of oxygen. Still, I'm getting a bit old for fighting. I'm confident I can still hold my own, but I'll generally try to avoid violence if possible. I don't need the sore muscles/fists afterwards or the concern about legal ramifications. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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I swear I've come REALLY close to this! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Do you take care of your rigger?
livendive replied to karenmeal's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I buy myself bottles of my choice all the time, including after saving myself. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) -
I had a drunk pull a knife on me at a party in a hotel room once. I took the knife away from him (a nice one at that) and sent him packing. I swear to god, he went down the the payphone and called the cops because he wanted the knife back. He told them the story, and was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon before they ever knocked on our door. While I kept the knife that night (it's my opinion that when someone pulls a weapon on me, I am entitled to keep it), I did end up turning it into them a few days later when they came by my work. Somehow they figured out that the guy had used it to knife someone about 18 hours before he pulled it on me and that person subsequently died. The idiot went away for some number of years. I don't know whether he'd have been caught if he hadn't been so stupid. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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I just want to know who will end up as the web-based version of snuffy smith. I have a couple ideas... Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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It was off a hit. Funny thing was, it was in a joint batting/fielding practice with another team and I was pitching to their pitcher. He kept smoking 'em at me and I kept telling him to knock it off, cuz our mound is stinkin' close to home and, well, it was *just practice*! He said he'd stop hitting 'em up the middle then beaned me on his next to last pitch with a line shot that I just couldn't get out of the way of. I went and had a beer, and told my team I'd get him back with the last pitch he threw to me. I got up to bat and sprayed some around for fielding practice, then his catcher tried to run me off with one pitch left. I protested with a "no, I've got one more pitch coming" so everyone knew what was up, and I still tagged him right in the chest with a rope that got there quicker than his glove could. I was kinda proud of it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Cool pictures! I like 7 & 8 the most. Marginally related: I got hit with a softball two weeks ago, and let me tell you, them things ain't soft! (proof attached, though not from any fancy camera/lens). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Forget the Tacoma, get a new Tundra with the V8. There's not a better riding pickup truck out there (almost as soft as a Caddie), it's quieter inside than the Lexus SC, and it's available in club cab (w/ 6' bed), with sunroof and power BACK window. I'm thinking of trading in my '01 Tundra 4WD for the new one, but will probably wait till next year to see if they do as I suspect and release 3/4 and 1 ton models. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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And what was the principle reason for that decline? I think it's funny when we Americans bitch about some other country running the human rights commission when we're one of the few countries left in the world that will still execute people for crimes they committed as children. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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You must be kidding! Finger-pointing is one of those rare activities our politicians can claim is 100% bi-partisan, along with spin-doctoring, catering to special interests, and generally sucking ass. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Re: [Michele] JFTC ladies, please check in!
livendive replied to MakeItHappen's topic in Speakers Corner
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention do not call grown women 'girls'. Do not take this personally, I tell everyone this. Same with 'chick'. . LOL! Jan, quit being such a girl! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) -
The word "terrorist" is ridiculously over-used these days, but I remember discussions about the definition from last year. I think the gist was that if one blows up civilian targets and kills unarmed people, they are a terrorist. If one attacks military targets, they are "warriors" or "resistance fighters." I imagine it appears to most of the world that right now in Iraq, we are the ones bombing churches, houses, and other "non-military" targets, and the natives are the ones attacking uniformed military men. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Well since I'm sure at least some of those uprisings Saddam was putting down involved "combatants", an apples to apples comparison has us killing three times more Iraqis per year than Saddam Hussein did. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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All in all, I think I agree with you, but it gets a bit fuzzier in this example. If the report is accurate, then Scalia did not provide an advance directive that his speech at the high school not be recorded. Given that, the reporters subsequently recorded it. My concern is how they could be forced to erase their recording after the fact. Who owns the tape, Scalia or the reporter? Under what authority could one order the destruction of such "property"? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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I don't know about *much* better. My perception (and I'm not sure where I got it) was that the number was considerably higher than 9,000...i.e. closer to 25-30 k. In any case, we've done that in one year, as opposed to 20+ years. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Source Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Announcement does not equal withdrawal. While your conclusion may prove true in the future, it is thus far unsubstantiated. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Actually, what Kerry proposes is some sort of "national service" program starting for kids as young as 13. It's pretty radical and smacks of socialism, but it's kinda fun to toss around the melon wondering what shape it would have to take to get through Congress. My understanding is that his comments this week about cutting the current deficit included shelving at least some of this program. Anyhow, here's what he has to say on his website about it, I put it in chronological order so the college thing is at the bottom if you get sick of the posturing: Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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You wouldn't have to convince me with that argument, I already agree. The thing is that I feel a lot less affected by affirmative action than I do by the Bush/Ashcroft approach. Of course that's another "lesser" thing. Nothing like a little civil disobedience to refresh the perspective eh? The highest building within any reasonable driving distance of me is only 6 stories tall, so I guess I'll have to restrict myself to having a beer while driving home from work. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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LOL - I DO fear an uber-liberal in the White House, and think that a "who is more liberal" contest between Bush and Kerry would result in a dead heat. Given that, it boils down to which forms of liberalism are acceptable to an individual voter and which are not. Personally, I find Kerry's socialized medicine, college tuition vouchers, and affirmative action more palatable than Bush's intertwining of church and state, trampling of the bill of rights, and total disregard for the environment. When forced to pick between the lesser of two evils, personal preference will determine what is meant by "lesser." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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Ditto. Somehow we come up on opposite ends here though. Kerry scares me, but Bush scares me a lot more. I'll vote for Kerry, but I'm pretty sure he'd carry Washington without me. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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While a lot has changed, almost every point in his speech remained true last year. We DID have to go all the way to Baghdad. We DID have to commit a lot of force. We DID have to hunt him down. We DID have to put another government in place. We DID have to pick a type of government to prop up. We STILL don't know how long we'll have to be there. We STILL don't know what will happen to our puppet government when we leave. We STILL don't know how many casualties we will have to suffer trying to "create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable" So why did Dick think it was inadvisable then, but advisable now, when nothing of any substance changed (except perhaps that Saddam got rid of his WMDs)? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)