JJohnson

You really expect us to believe that anyone was dumb enough to put their own return address on a letter bomb?? This would qualify for the Darwin awards. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Damn, that cat would feed a family of four. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Cute? They are just sitting there! You want cute...try a Golden Retriever. Ypou look cute up in the dictionary and it says: see Golden Retriever. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Sounds expensive. My last dog did the same thing and I can't remeber it costing more than $200. This is a dog you are talking about isn't it? JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I'm with you. Time + tragedy = comedy. Humor is like art, appreciation is in the eye/ear of the beholder. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

You offended someone? What did you do? Tell them their choice of rig sucked? JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Unless they got a shitload of cash that you stand to inherit....fuck em. Get your future wife into jumping and really piss them off. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I don't offend easily. Inconsideration bothers me. There are times that anything cam be in bad taste. Otherwise my moto is nuke the gay black whales for Jesus. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

SONY!!! JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Dave is good people and I won't tolerate anyone abusing him on this forum. His good qualities more than outweigh his little dick, lack of musical abilities, being born in Texas and can't pack for shit. I refuse to let these tiny issues get bandied about here with out someone stepping in and bringing this sensless abuse to a halt. Love ya bro. I got your back. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I've had line twists 3 times on my Cobalt. All three I let a packer do the honors. In all fairness to him, I dumped with my shoulder way low on one of them. I knew it was going to spin up when I dumped it. When I pack it, I get consistent openings...500 ft, quick without being hard just the way I like them. I hate a long snivel. I don't roll anything or push anything in. I am real real curious to try a CF2, heard a lot of good things on them. I'd like to demo a CF2 and compare it against a Comp Cobalt. I don't think the CF2 against a reg Cobalt is a real fair match up. I'd take the reg Cobalt against the original Crossfire. I thought the original Crossfire was weaker in flare. I liked the Crossfire, just hated the long opening and I was pissed off at Simon at the time. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Funny, exact opposite of my experience with Chuck. My shit was on time, made well. I bought the top well after the bottoms and he managed to to match everything from a picture. I hjeard a runor that he is selling his company to some sports equipment company, that may have something to do with your problem. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Semper Fi devil dog. Do us and yourself proud. Tell Uncle Sam I miss him and he should write more often. If he'll take a 39 year old jarhead, I'd be there too. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Yeah but the whore thign is what we men find so appealing in you women...so don't change!! Any man who claims he is looking for a nice girl, that can cook and have intelligent conversations with is lying through his teeth. If we want conversation, we go to the hardware store and talk about saws and hammers and shit. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Understood and agree, but please don't stop me from warping truth to prove my point. I'm practising for my career in politics. The Stiletto would still, in my opinion be more sensitive than a Cobalt. This may stem from the fact that a Stiletto turns faster still than many current canopies. Again, my opinion only. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

The impression I was getting was that nobody there really knew shit. Something in writing, by the FAA would certainly be the best ammo we could currently have. And I KNOW I have read that bit specifically about parachutes and the pilot and I swear it was in the FAA's stuff. According to the tubby TSA dude, it would be what he based his decision on at the time....what the FAA said and if the airlines said okay. Until some communication occurs between the USPA, FAA and TSA I think it's going to be hit and miss for us jumpers. The matches thing was a prime example. If they are unaware of their own prohibited items, they are going to make whatever choice they think is rioght at the time. According to TSA's website a corkscrew is LEGAL to take onboard. I am pretty confident that you would have that confiscatated immediately. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

You can bet they won't use them if it means ruining all that good oil. Sounds like a bit of sabre rattling to try and scare the countries we may have to fight. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I know this is correct...but where is it in writing? I've been pouring over the FAR's and TSA's website and cannot find it. I seriously think that if it is in the FAA regs, carrying a copy of it would pretty much shut the TSA people up. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I think it gonna be close, Bucs by 7. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

What do you do for a living??? JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I got friends going for either team and I'd like to see them all happy.....but I got a feeling the Bucs are due. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

This past week I had to fly out to North Carolina for business. No rig with me, but I did get to experience the new f*cknuts TSA monkeys. I AM NOT impressed. A bunch of low wage self-important know everything idiots. I'll start at the begining: 1) I got time to kill at O'hare, so I duck outside to smoke. In the little heated corral are THREE TSA monkeys. None of them are young idiots, all are men. One appears to be a supervisor of some sort. I strike up a conversation with them and explain I am a skydiver and ask what their experience or knowledge is with sport parachutes and carrying them onboard aircraft. 2) After much talk between them, none of them can come up with anything other than, " Well if it came through my station I wouldn't find anything wrong with it." So right now it appears as if it is a matter of their personal preference..... 3) Sitting off to one side is a 500 pound waste of space who opens up his mouth...for something other than the intake of food (I know, he can't help it he probably has a gland problem) He pipes in and says that parachutes are strictly against their SOP (standard operating procedures for you civilians). The other three quickly chime in that Fred (the fatass) knows everything if anybody does.....I congratulate Fred on knowing a cool acronym, and agree with him that I don't think TSA people wearing parachutes would be good SOP. But what about FAA regs? What do they say about parachutes. Fred can't come up with anything other than his own official knowledge. 4) Latter on while boarding I get the "random" inspection. HAHAHAHA. Like I wasn't expecting it. The barely English speaking monkey going through my briefcase is so upset that I'm not smuggling something, proceeds to tell me that I can't carry on more than one book of matches. There were three in my briefcase. So I told her fine, throw two out....like I friggin care. I got a lighter and only resort to the matches if I can't get the plane burning with my Zippo. HAHAHAHAHA I remember reading long ago, somewhere..where it said that the only person allowed to refuse a parachute as a carry on item is the pilot of that aircraft. I know I have seen this in writing and I swear it was in the FAR's. Anyone got this? I think it is pretty much the only protection we have in bringing rigs through security. It was the only advice fatass could give me, as he said that a copy of the FAA regs would be the only way that HE would allow one to pass. So if you get a TSA person that actually can read, it might work. BTW, I looked up TSA's website and parachutes are not restricted. But they can always cover that by claiming the list on their site is not updated or all inclusive. I think the FAA regs would be better. Regualr matches were not limited either.......... JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

While any canopy can get twists induced into it, some are more prone than others. The Stiletto is more prone than a Cobalt in my humble opinion. The nickname of Spinetto didn't come from me. So perhaps a better terminolgy might be "more sensitive to body position and packing methods"? I jump a Cobalt 120. Have not jumped the Comp version yet, but looking forward to it. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I've put only a few jumps on Stilettos, less than 20. I was not thrilled. The openings snivelled, I had line twists three times. The flare was not great and it flew kinda twitchy...my opinion. I bought a Cobalt after a few demo jumps and loved it. The openings are one of the best I know. I have had line twists here as well and getting out of them was a lot eaisier than any other canopy I have had. Riser pressure was lighter than the Stil and flare was better. Stil was faster in turns in toggles. JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

And my wife.... JJ JJ "Call me Darth Balls"