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  1. Interesting read on the surgeons smokin99. There was always a love/hate relationship between Flight Surgeons and Aircrew, except I don’t remember any of the love stuff. They were obsessed with checking our prostates every other month it seemed, while telling us what a big favor they were doing. Then this was published the other day: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/embargoed-no-benefit-from-prostate-cancer-screening/ Well I guess the joke was on me wasn’t it Doctor Fist? Oh it just gets better, it just gets better. Not only was I required to go through this as part of my job but went on to keep practicing this in civilian life during my leisure time and paying for the privilege. Ultimately all these cross checks can do is lower the frequency of errors and not eliminate them. Out of whatever number of amputations, sooner or later the wrong limb will be removed and a law suit filed to draw attention to the act. There were times when ONE ‘ah shit’ would have caused….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY And it almost happened (False Alerts)…… http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/Breakthrough/book/chapters/borning.html With all that in place there was still room for a screw up and it happened while some cooler heads kept checking. The one thing the article does not highlight is the fact that starting engines on ‘alert’ was a career ending act by the crew. Moving a plane filled with nukes would land everyone in the clink. The point being, those BUFF crews thought this was the ‘Big One’ playing out since it was a sneak attack in the middle of the night. If I was on an operating table getting a leg chopped off, I think I would wrap my other leg in chainmail as a way to halt the scalpel, add a titanium lock box over the same leg with three sets of keys for three different locks where the latches are independently wired to a shotgun’s trigger which is securely mounted on a tripod and pointed at the surgeon. But then I’ve always been a risk taker.
  2. I see that Jerry, you should read smokin99’s previous comment. A simple URL as source attribution would eliminate a person calling the FBI on a simple phone and allow many others to independently verify the statement. Much quicker, better and cheaper. Although if I made the call, then I could lord over the fact that I just ‘got off the phone’ with the FBI and be all cool and stuff.
  3. Way to go smokin99…… again (emphasis on again). I have never heard of satellite offices and could not find the information you presented in the form of a clicky URL (I’m humbled and kinda tingly ‘down there’). I am a little bit smarter today thanks to you and the moral of this activity is to check, double check, then expect the unexpected. You might find it strange, that the front seats of most airliners are occupied by a pair of individuals who do the exact same thing. Yep, one says they just turned a switch, knob or checked a blinking light only to have the other person verify they didn’t just lie about it. Most people consider this ‘overkill’….. most people still want two individuals in those front seats….. most people are sublimely duplicitous too. Once again, good catch smokin99.
  4. Bruce Smith responds with: “Calm Down Farf - the feddie teddies came from the Springfield field office a few miles away, I was told. It is my understanding that the Bureau has a small outpost there. No Captain America antics or hyper-dimensional physics were required to gather up LD's toothbrush, combs and what-not. Just a Crown Vic and a grunt.” The Amazing Farflungini remains calm in a trance of suspended disbelief which is being tested yet again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4K9Cus0_g&feature=related Silence! For The Amazing Farflungini spent several seconds searching the ‘banal’ and could find but one FBI field office for the entire state of Oregon. Silence! The Amazing Farflungini understands how such information and viewpoints anger and taunt those on the DBC thread as those are normal responses from those seeking the truth. The Amazing Farflungini is endlessly amazed at how little vetting or cross checking is ever accomplished or even considered. Silence! The Amazing Farflungini requires no address of the FBI ‘ghost office’ any more than a photo of the newly discovered twenty dollar bill or woodland parachute found during the same month as extreme secrecy must be maintained. No man could possibly search for money on his own and forming search teams makes sense….. infinite sense. Silence! For the Amazing Farflungini knows all too well that….. It’s the pelvic thrust…. That really drives them insane. Let’s do the DZ again, let’s do the DZ again.
  5. Bruce Smith recalls: “...remember they arrived at Dale Miller's place within the hour when they heard he had LD stuff” Really? Within an hour? That’s 59 minutes and 59 seconds or less from the deepest and darkest of Portland to wherever Miller lives. It takes me 15 minutes to get to the nearest McDonalds, but I’m one of those unlucky souls that uses Earth to travel on with a standard day being one revolution of the same planet. Time and space are the most abused and misused of concubines in the DBC stable. There are vastly different types of time measurements like New York Minutes and the famous ‘20 minute’ time frame which exists exclusively in Los Angeles and is the amount of time required to get from any point in that city to another. Quite remarkable in that 9 million people can collectively agree to engage the same lie for decades and reserve the temerity to say “Gee, I’ve never heard that before”. I had such high hopes for 2012 which included the reduction of this insane, secrecy associated with a 40 year old, cold crime and the associated bombast that must be some sort of Viagra for Walter Mittys. I think Bernie Madoff had a secret system also that thousands of self proclaimed intelligentsia bought into, figuratively and literally. The reason this sorry ass approach is still used today is simple…… it works. Why the need for this information enhancement? Do the Men in Black arriving within an hour convey some extra boner inducing, urgency that would be missing otherwise? Like a 5 hour lie detector test being more intense than a 5 minute examination? Kinda silly to read, pathetic to add and astonishing to believe. I guess a version where a couple bored agents are called to make an extra stop returning from a different crime on another whack job report isn’t what most people talk about anyway. I will now go into a trance and make some amazingly accurate predictions…….. The Amazing Farflungini sees a lack of photographic evidence supporting the found ‘70’s vintage’ twenty dollar bill associated with Cooper. This conclusion was reached since the Cooper money was 60’s vintage. Silence!....... Silence! The Amazing Farflungini is sensing another ‘First Attempt to Taste Like Vanilla Ice Cream’. Silence! The spotted parachute has no photographs either. I’m growing weak and must feed soon…. (cough)…. (cough) …. but I’ll try since I’m all about…. (gasp)…. the….. (arghhh)….truth. These artifacts are secret and must remain this way until legal council can be….. strength fading fast…. must keep channeling…. (sniff)… obtained in order to protect their rights…. The Amazing Farflungini is spent and his life shortened by this brave and hunky act. But since it was for the Cooper cause, he selfless sacrifices go without credit or seeking the same….. no matter how much he may deserve it.
  6. OK, lemme get this straight here. Marla was chased off for reasons I will never fully understand. This is in spite of her steamy and sultry contribution to solving one of the greatest unsolved crimes in US history. Fine then, let’s just keep her at an arm’s length. I can live with that. NOT. Marla…. Call me. So now I see another name associate with this case and that name is Carol. That’s certainly close to Carola now isn’t it? (The answer is YES super investigators) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8vP3XmC0go So why has this source (I’m talking Carol here) been kept away from the thread? Hmmmmmm? Well, I’ll tell you why; because she is smart, intoxicatingly beautiful and I forgot the third thing thanks to the second thing. Once again I’m forced to do the dirty work of researching parties associated with the NORJAK crime and what I discovered about Carol is daunting. Attached is a graphic of her qualifications and I think they speak for themselves. Unless everyone associated with this subject has been stricken blind and stupid, then I will sit here beside myself.
  7. Well that’s just great. OK, so I’m in the ranks of scorned and despised WHUFFOs with an anonymous screen name and matthewcline decides to up the stakes by adding his phone number with access to his boss?! I bow to the ‘brass ones’ which would not pass through a double hangar door. You publish a phone number on the only thread populated with unashamed, psychos AND have a background in skydiving? Isn’t this like playing Russian roulette while taking a shower with a toaster? If anyone has the ‘large set’ it would take to call this guy on his offer then you must be a ‘true believer’. Cuz just seeing his area code made me feel faint. God I’m cool.
  8. I can’t georger. This is like anti-intellectual, cyber, crack and one hit leads to another and another. I realize what this is doing to me, but I can’t stop because the utter obliviousness displayed by some is so compelling that I can neither look away or abstain; though I know I should. On the surface this stuff is hilarious by itself, but by adding the element of ‘them’ taking themselves so deadly seriously, simply makes my bladder fail and delivers an experience that I can only describe as exquisite in a droll and coarse sense. I feel that one would have to shave ‘themselves’ and squat over a jar of Witch Hazel to truly come to appreciate what the DBC thread experience has become. I’m giving it a try none the less.
  9. OMG, this truly is the gift that just keeps giving! DBC Thread, RULES!
  10. This shouldn’t be difficult since the bar is at absolute zero with nowhere lower to sink. I’m talking about the latest batch of delusional characters who have taken time to cobble some sort of resume together but fail (as they all do) to think about one step downstream. I’m truly baffled by this activity since the internet has introduced speed of light validation and much larger groups to gather with relative ease. That is, I was silly enough to think that this sort of activity would be attenuated rather than amplified to levels which have produced the likes of Bernie Madoff and Jim Jones. I guess they succeeded because they had a message their followers desperately wanted to believe in the first place. I just don’t get it. Same for these people that ‘claim’ a vast wealth of investigative skills since they were police, private detectives or CIA Special Ops as has been the case, more than once on this thread. After making these unsolicited and out of context declarations, these same super sleuths with atomic research skills go on to ask “What’s a WHUFFO?” This on a skydiving site after claiming they have been following this thread for a long time. Am I the only one that reads this sort of abysmal tripe and thinks W…..T…….F? How insulting to think this electronic dais is occupied with such ‘monster-dorks’ as to let someone who presumably has access to one of many search engines and wasn’t capable of typing ‘WHUFFO’, hitting the Enter/Return key and reading the several dozen definitions offered in a matter of milliseconds. What makes these posers think this group possesses such a dim collective intelligence? For those reading this thread and crafting your Cooper persona as something truly spectacular and exciting, please take a little extra time before your debut. Wanna claim ur a emglish teacher, den git sum spellcheckers 4 instance. If you’re going to claim you are a cop then you may want to avoid taking the title of Admiral; but if it makes you happy or feel pretty, then by all means go ahead. Of course this excludes those who have no problem with the display of being a full frontal, wacko or those who want to be a ‘fluffer’ for the same. Please carry on, as your ilk have unintentionally saved me thousands of entertainment dollars, while propelling me much higher on the ‘intelligence bell curve’ than I deserve to occupy.
  11. RobertMBlevins ponders openly and oddly inexplicably: “Some others, (Georger included) could only discuss how good she (Marla) looked at age 48. I might look good, too...” First of all, I’ve barely noticed Marla’s appearance and think people who focus on a woman’s appearance are mean and shallow. Secondly, I don’t recall the qualifier of looking good for “48” was ever mentioned. I’m willing to bet that there are plenty of women who would like to look as good as Marla…… anytime or for a few moments. That is of course if one was vapid enough to notice her bright white smile, svelte physique and inviting gaze. But since RobertMBlevins forced the point by suggesting he may look good too, I was forced to seek and find images of Marla. Enough with this guessing stuff because I crafted an objective way of deciding if RobertMBlevins might look as good as, oh I even forgot her name because I’m so virtuous and pure, ah that’s right; Marla. In the interest of fair play, ethics and that other stuff that everyone follows one can make their own decision after viewing the objective attachment featuring RobertMBlevins and umm, oh yeah Marla.
  12. This all comes down to perceptions and what the pre selected conclusions are. I asked about memorable weather events in people’s lives and RobertMBlevins responded with his experience with ice storms in the late 70’s. Well lo and behold, there was corroborative data from newspapers and historical WX reports to support that claim. Not that this is an end all, be all situation as there are newspaper reports about Sasquatch, Roswell UFOs and Nixon having a raging, long term, homosexual relationship with Bebe Rebozo. I mean we all know that Nixon was married to Pat, who wore a respectable cloth coat and delivered two daughters from heterosexual relations, I would imagine. Although I have never actually imagined the Nixons engaging in any such activity; actually find the thought of a couple Sasquatchs going at it, more erotic. If someone agrees with a viewpoint which one supports…. Then they are intelligent, hard working and correct without the burden of any proof. If someone produces copious amounts of data which does not support one’s viewpoint…. Then their frustration manifests in rage, calls for qualifications and declarations that they have experience. Stuff like that.
  13. I don’t get it. Marla says without reservation or deception on a very public Facebook page that she wants to capitalize on her story. Hey, doesn’t that statement have all the earmarks of the…… truth? So what? I don’t care if someone makes money off Cooper or not. I DO care when these meat puppets claim they just want the truth and don’t care about the money when their every action oozes the contrary. That just strikes me as douchey and conduct unbecoming a Cooperite. Be careful or this subject could turn into a joke and become like Area 51, Sasquatch and Roswell UFOs all rolled into one except, freaky and weird. I for one would like to see… hear more from Marla and her story. A story which beckons men who are manly and hunky while seeking the truth about Cooper; Marla Cooper that is. Yes, she permeates the very core fantasies of real men worldwide and with an eternal grip which cannot be erased by the excessive consumption of the finest single malt Scotches or endless and empty nights spent in a hopeless pursuit of a surrogate, while tending yet another delusional consideration that she may well appear incarnate and with little more than a toss of her long, hypnotic hair - destroys all ugliness by taking away what ugliness needs most; a continuous and eternal feeding of vapid, flaccid and boring brag speak. I care about freedom, puppies and whether or not Marla’s cleavage is penciled in and won’t rest until I know the truth and will go so far as to personally inspect and objectively verify just what is accurate. Yeah, I care that much. It’s a burden to give and give annnnnd give so much. .em llac ,alraM
  14. Easy smokin99, don’t anger ‘the rosebud’ by explaining the search function. That’s like telling Renoir how to finger paint, Pavarotti how to hum or a Cooper thread commenter how to be weird. Didn’t you read how he has hundreds of years with the police in an un-named town because he was also a detective in the same town and I think he said a spy too. I know that most cities don’t have spies but that’s just what made this such a brilliant operation. Then, as if that wasn’t enough of doing the same freakin thing every day, after day, for 50 years which would make anyone do anything else unless they had no options….. he becomes a private dick. Yep, Mr ‘I can investigate anything and solve everything with a 100% conviction rate who leaves a four inch furrow between his footprints on the beach’ guy; surely knows how to use the search function and come to his own conclusions. Let’s just hope he isn’t offended by the lack of obsequiousness.
  15. Hi rosebud, Nope I don’t have anything to contribute at all, just ‘scathing’ comments. Your many years of investigative experience is already paying dividends. And here’s another….. Scathing is defined as bitterly denunciatory and harshly critical. Oh, my! I hope you would be so kind as to ‘copy and paste’ (ref item 1 above) the offending text which I have transmitted to the world, that would be great. Otherwise your comment is just a broad sweeping generalization and nothing more. Know whatta mean? My qualifications or contributions??? Did you not read item 5 above?? Looks like scathing just became a little closer to home with a big ass scoop of irony. I never said you enjoyed talking about OTHERS penises, the inference in item 5 was about those who talk endlessly about theirs (hope this cleared that up). Without any source attribution or documented examples, having a ‘claimed’ 352 thousand years as a whatever is just a bunch of talk. I believe that is something you have already lamented, yet have set an example by contributing more of the same. Great, you were giving some goof the third degree and were leaving him to sweat for a while…… got it…. Sam Spade stuff. And if by exposing someone’s BS via allegory is what you view as scathing, then you must be no stranger to being the recipient many times in the past thus explaining your sensitivity to the subject. Keep up the good work there Sergeant Mitty, this thread needs more just like you. Please add some more multisyllabic, non-diction relevance checks to the mix. I like ‘em, because I have no qualifications and can’t speak with faux authority.
  16. Here’s a little assist rosebud, I published (August of LAST year) what I observed as among the common responses to new people’s and old head’s questions on this thread. Clearly reading this whole thread with over 30,000 comments, which at 50 words per comment would amortize to 1.5 million words, would be folly, cruel and more reading than anyone here has ever done. I mean that’s like reading Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ three times. Ever read it once? Know anyone who has? It was the best of times…… it was the worst of times….. it was Duane. Anyway here’s some definitions about what many know but must never be whispered; the ‘Forbidden Text’. “1. Read back in the thread. This is a perennial favorite among those who take the time to contradict something yet manage to neglect the copy and paste function when looking at the source information. 2. It’s somewhere around here, I can’t find it now. This is code for ‘I didn’t expect anyone to actually call me on this, please go away.’ 3. This has already been talked about. Yep, after 26,000 comments there are individuals who still find this to be a stunningly profound statement. 4. Trust me. I can’t believe there are adults who even use this phrase and children are too intelligent to try. 5. What are your qualifications? Among the most disingenuous queries as there is not interest in the qualifications or if you are qualified. This is a call to publish a resume which will ALWAYS exceed your previously stated experience. This is a Tar-baby which will devolve beyond name dropping and braggadocio to quantifications of discussions and meetings which produced nothing. This should be avoided at all costs but the desire to talk about one's penis is simply too great thus insuring continued practice. 6. I’ve been doing this for (??) number of years, that’s how I know. Apparently they have not met their new masters in the form of the Google board of directors where several members actually entered their 30’s (age) this year. Longevity at failure is not a virtue. 7. They should know because they are local. I don’t know where this beauty originated where a person living somewhere inherently knows more about technical or historical information on that city. I asked a guy from Detroit for a part number on a 1972 Caprice and all he did was stare just like that guy from Washington DC who didn’t know the ramifications of the Smoot-Hawley Act. Clearly both of them must have been imposters as all residents of those cities would have known those answers. 8. I’ll have to check with (person who is an utter unknown). Another form of poorly played deflection where the information is held by one person who rarely is located to reinforce some statement that is in contradiction to traditional science or data. 9. I had it (the source) but agents from the government sabotaged my hard drive. Yep, this one is still popular among the ‘I have AOL’ crowd that believes computers are magic. A dying breed that share a common DNA strand where any semi technical question is answered with ‘I have AOL’. 10. I don’t have time right now, do your own work. They never do. Yet they ALWAYS have time to make a baseless response.”
  17. I came to this thread seeking falsehoods, deception and poorly veiled manipulation and now I find out there are people looking for the ‘truth’? This has to be the most abused, hackneyed and worthless of platitudes thrown around this Petri dish of virtue. Why do people have such a bizarre attraction to zero calorie statements? How many enter a store and announce they aren’t shoplifters? Or Hometown Buffets and announce they aren’t cheap asses looking to bankrupt the place while stuffing their dainty pie holes, for hours? I’m guessing….. umm…. zero. So what’s the point? Other than making the rarely used ‘self serving’ statement laced with passive aggressive content, as anyone with a superior intellect and large penis could instantly recognize. I’m here looking for lies, treachery and sinister steering and am willing to bet anyone, I found the El Dorado of such quests and have been endlessly successful where those with other goals will continue to peer into an empty vessel. But what do I know?
  18. The subject matter is quickly becoming yet another ‘headless corpse’, so I thought I would help with a few definitions. I just give and give and give. You might be surprised how these terms are utterly destroyed by the average person since they are now part of the American lexicon, right or wrong. I don’t recall any being right though.
  19. The first guy in charge of the FAA was Elwood Quesada. He was selected by Eisenhower because of his vast experience in aviation to include being a pilot. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/10/us/elwood-r-quesada-first-faa-chief-dies-at-88.html Attached is a picture of General Quesada in his USAF uniform. There is a US Army person in uniform for comparison. Thanks to their penchant for decorations, devices and badges, I can personally attest to saluting more Army buck privates than any rank of Air Force officer.
  20. Here is an in depth explanation and definition of eye colors. http://www.obsidianbookshelf.com/html/eyecolorlist.html WARNING: I spent several seconds getting this from the internet. People need to dash to their vehicles and begin an intensive drive across several county, if not state lines and interview people who have eye color. This information won’t come from sitting at a computer and must come from ‘living witnesses’; sorry, the dead witnesses used so thoroughly in the past won’t suffice anymore. This thread is about quality and nothing less will do. Mrshutter45, When you ask a question and get no response that means one of two things on the thread. 1. Someone does not have something to say on the subject matter (note: I have never seen this to be the case, no matter the subject (DNA analysis, computer viruses, Kennedy assassins, Bigfoots, battery reutilization techniques), not once, ever. Sooooo…… ummm…. that kinda leaves….. Number 2, 2. Someone had previously screwed the pooch on that very subject and by ignoring it, avoiding any mea culpa and praying for the next thread page to arrive before discovery, they can dodge another bullet by not having to explain a previous story they told that had some dookie in it. Like Kenny lying about his height by making himself 4 inches…… shorter. Ummm…. yeah…. gosh…. that would be a global first for a man. Chicks lie about being more dainty but not beefy, manly, man, men who tread the planet in a full time act of overcompensation. Ever sat in a Ferrari? You won’t have a chance if you are over 5’ 7 “. I rest my case. That’s all I got.
  21. All this re-discussion about Kenny’s height and aliases and living witnesses all rang a primal bell in my recall. Hmmmm…… looks like one of the crewmembers is trying to confuse things.
  22. RobertMBlevins shared: “Off topic, but interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6kxQYGVs0&feature=youtu.be was a real surprise, too. I had no idea this could be done. Nice hack, indeed.” That ‘hack’ posted on disemboweling a 6 volt battery to retrieve a cornucopia of AA cells and save money was amusing. I really should have paid more attention in electronics class. A battery is a widely used misnomer like cow and cement mixer where cattle or concrete mixer is more accurate. Those cylindrical things called AAA, AA, C and D batteries are actually ‘cells’ and not batteries. Yawnnnnnnn. Batteries are composed of two or more cells like the 9 volt in most smoke detectors and 6 volt used in lanterns. The cells produce electricity by some magical means involving Unicorn tears and produce a total of 1.5 volts each. Go ahead, look at one it says ‘1.5 V’ right on the skin and has never been a secret. Wanna make a 9 volt battery? Just take six AAA cells and combine them in series with 1.5 volts times 6 resulting in 9 volts. Yippee. See how easy? Now about that 6 volt lantern battery hack…… ummm …. I think that a 6 volt, battery would require four, 1.5 volt cells and likely be of the C or D caliber and not AA, let alone several dozen of them. But what do I know? I think this ‘brilliant hack’ is yet another urban joke that the public is more than willing to believe for some reason ($$$) and illustrates just how removed the average person is from average things in life. It is funny though.
  23. Leave it to Hollywood with this long forgotten gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ov77VMDy0 Since the TV is where most Americans obtain their education this seemed perfectly appropriate. In the first three seconds you can see their version has DB ‘backing’ down the stairs. This should dispel any fantasies someone may have about being the ‘first’ to suggest that possibility. But it won’t. From (0:06 0- 0:09) one can observe the behavior of the stairs when the actor jumps. I realize this is from a movie and not nearly as technical as all the previous guessing here and I don’t know the velocity of the aircraft or if the stairs were modified in any way. With that in mind, those stairs didn’t appear to return to the shut position at all. Gosh all this in a scant nine seconds. It won’t matter as there has been way too much invested, time wise in contrary theories and junk science for this to go gently into the night sweet prince. Nope, it will be ignored for a few days or weeks then brought up again. Or modified with some of the most mind numbing qualifiers ever written, like; by ‘backing down’ I was suggesting that I was the first to say it on a Tuesday, while eating a Ho-Ho and wearing a grass skirt.
  24. RobertMBlevins says carelessly: “You know perfectly well what I meant, Farflung.” Oh did I? Sure looked like an author/scribe was trying to take credit for identifying Kenny Christiansen as a suspect instead of the genuine finger pointer. Just sayin. This one is in English (‘merican rock ‘n’ roll) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEMhEM9N6J4&feature=related While the gods of love look down and laugh At what romantic fools we mortals be…..
  25. RobertMBlevins says with authority and amnesia: “I would have submitted everything I found out about Kenny Christiansen to Geoffrey Gray and let HIM take the heat. No kidding. Besides, he was the one who first proposed Christiansen as a suspect, not me.” Damn my tertiary syphilis and early onset Alzheimer’s, damn it all to hell. My brain continues to rot, as I would have sworn on a Bible and testified as a living witness that Lyle Christiansen was the one who ‘first proposed Kenny’ as a suspect and not some authors who were victims of his dastardly perfidy of deceit and stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBWZw5H_LI From Carola’s seductive lips to my smoldering heart, which burns with a fire of deception blazing with an indiscriminate, light that Vicki (and Tina in my fantasy) fans with reckless abandon while defiling all that is decent, as she mocks those whose actions can only produce shame and agony. Oh they don’t touch her with their hands; but she is abused with their being which cackles with delight at the arrival of every new thread commenter. Yes, for them Christmas and cruelty are indistinguishable with each New Year delivering a fresh, crisp sheet upon which to continue their sick and twisted avocations. Abandon all logic ye who enter the DBC thread. You have been warned and stuff.