RhondaLea

Maybe I'll send the pictures to you instead. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

Dunno... Well... ...here's what I know: a) I have successfully hijacked your thread , and b) I'm not sending you any pictures , and c) you need a spanking. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

Ya think? I wouldn't bet money on it if I were you. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

If you want pictures, you'll have to take them yourself. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

As a skydiver, you should be aware of the usual inaccuracies of media reporting. There are very few facts right now, and we haven't even reached the stage where someone needs to be arrested, much less sent to jail. Making a concerted effort to sort all this out is important. A discussion of the ethics of leaving is essential every now and again. But trial, conviction and imposition of sentence prior to knowing exactly what has happened in this particular case helps no one, most especially Scott. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

If I send you naked pictures of me, are you going to post them too? It doesn't matter what you say. If you're posting your co-worker's pictures without permission, I don't trust you anymore. No homegrown porn for you. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

Why wish when there's nothing wrong with the way you look now?? In that portrait, Phedre is less than 25 years old. She has no stretch marks, no scars (in spite of her avocation), no wrinkles or sags, incredible stamina, all the melanin in her hair that she was born with, not to mention a great tattoo. I, on the other hand...appreciate that you wrote something nice, if factually inaccurate.

Awareness is good, but given that the police are involved and that this situation is now receiving media coverage, it may be that amateur involvement is overkill. On the other hand, if anyone knows the other two people involved, that information would probably be most helpful. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

No, no, no. Don't take it like that. Recycling is good. And this has been a perfectly fine thread. I'd like to start a "proud" thread of my own, but I'm afraid my topic wouldn't be appropriate for a family message board like dropzone.com. I am therefore reduced to taking vicarious pleasure in those begun by others, and sometimes I get a little pissy. Sometimes. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

Because you don't post here regularly, you're not aware that there have been about 20 knock-offs of the "I am a Christian....and proud of it!!!!" thread. We've had proud emergency worker fans, boobie posters, agnostics, atheists, heroin addicts...I didn't have time to look through 41 search pages for all the proud people here, but everyone has taken their shot. Fortunately for this thread, we haven't had one in a (relative) while, and every now and again the "Christian" thread needs a break. But not too much of one. I'm starting to believe that when the thread does end, so does the world. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

It means you need to come curl up next to me on the couch and rest your head in my lap for a thorough scritching. (BTW, what's "scritching"?) rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I think I'd spank him. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

It has been pointed out to me by two people who actually read the link I posted that Dead Mike was not dead. And indeed, I was working from my memory of the accounts at the time, not from Mike's account on his website, which clearly states that he was not dead. It really does pay to have one's facts in hand before posting, so that one does not then have to make corrective posts such as this one. That said, this morning I went googling for life after death, and it is clear that determining death is not so easy as it seems. My example was bad, but the premise is not. Although Mike did not cross the Great Divide, there are quite a few people who have been clinically dead but not brain dead who have come back and gone on to live long and one hopes, happy lives. In most places, EMS cannot pronounce unless: A. The patient has no obtainable vital signs and demonstrates postmortem rigidity and/or lividity. B. The patient has no obtainable vital signs and demonstrates generalized decomposition. C. The patient has no obtainable vital signs and has severe head trauma and/or torso wounds with exposure of brain matter or visceral contents. (An exception is made for a full-term or near-term pregnant woman, in which case, the hope is to save the baby.) D. The patient has no obtainable vital signs and 100% full thickness total body burns with no hope for salvage. E. The patient has no obtainable vital signs and demonstrates decapitation or complete severance through the trunk. F. The EMS crew is presented with a DNR. Checking vital signs is not enough. rl

That would be wishful thinking. I wish I looked like that. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

No. It isn't. Adam Fillipino said it best in a post to The Base Board on May 31, 2002: Dignity. We play a high stakes game called BASE jumping. We also are involved in being human beings. It is a major ethical /judgement slip to leave a dead friend behind. Maybe it was a bad decision made under a lot of duress. But frankly it's something you shold think about before you leave the house because you may be forced to decide. When the worst happens--all the cloak and dagger ##### ends--you start playing by the rules of life. Sure, leaving the scene and calling used to be part of our little Black Death mantra. It's also part of how the BASE continually undermines it's own legitimacey. I can't do any better than that. rl

http://www.womenwriters.net/may2003/carey.html If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I refer you to www.deadmike.com. When the ambulance left the WFFC, the lights were off and they were driving slow, because there was no reason to turn the lights on and drive fast. Mike was dead. He died in August 1997. He made a base jump at Bridge Day in 1998. He is currently a 43-year old dead guy. Apparently it's more difficult than you think. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I'm very sorry for your loss, Liz. rl

I think he'd make a great Joscelin. And I've got an opening for Hyacinthe too. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I don't need no stinking safe word. Bring the pain! You are living pretty large, my man, for a guy who throws around words like "vicious." I'm not sure "quick" and "witty" are enough to get you off the hook. I think you've forgotten you're on my way home. Please let your wife I'll give her plenty of advance notice to take the children out for the day. I promise I won't damage the house at all... rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

Whatever you feel most comfortable calling me. Seriously. But just so people know: "RL" is Ray Losli. "rl" is me. That's just so Ray doesn't get confused. (And yes, I'm sending him a link to this post.) Some people call "Rhonda," some call me "Rhonda Lea," some call me "rl." I have also had a handful that call me names I won't repeat on a family message board. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I have it on good authority that it will bring tears to her eyes to hear from you and that she will write back tonight. I've missed you.

Being the Bride of Satan, I can make it well worth your while. Besides, you really have no choice. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

You forgive her because she fairly worships the ground you walk on (both of you, actually), and you know she's a little wifty at the best of times. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

I have five jumps off NRGB in '97 and '98 at Bridge Day. I posted a picture in the "abuse RhondaLea" thread. I am not a base jumper. rl If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb