Deuce

Well then.........you're not a REALDr. are you......Bull Shyt......More Shyt....and Pilin' High and Deep Doctor; Latin = teacher Docere; Latin = to teach "real" doctors are teachers. The use of the word to mean "physician" is a late 19th century corruption deliberately promoted by the medical profession to raise its status. I will call you Doctor if you will call me Master. Fresh paint on old planes makes me nervous.

I like this one: "My first jump was a night/water jump. Yeah, I closed my eyes and peed my pants" I love the patter in the plane prior to jump, freaking out the tandems and AFF students. Now I get to play. To tandem master hooking up student: "Hey, I thought you were on home detention: TM: "Oh, I am, but I get to take the ankle bracelet off when I jump cause it was screwing up the planes avionics" Me: "You're parole officer is cool. I wish mine was that cool" TM: "Ask for mine at your next court date...."

No foolin! There's no way I did that much homework when I was in first grade! I am so glad both my kids are in the same grade and class. The homework is way easier the second time through. Good luck, tough guy!

I could not have taken my wife and children to Perris to skydive, with all of my equipment in a Honda Insight.(Skydiving related answer) I've been to every continent. I speak a second language. I've held people's hands as they have died, I've performed life-saving CPR, I have seen human beings at their most base and their most noble. By trying to put me in a convenient box, you lose the possibility of knowing me. (Response to presumption) OUT

Eli Thompson (the stunt double for the skydiving scenes in Austin Powers) was at Perris during the invasion this past weekend, and a good FF friend hooked me up with him and we're talking and he invites me on an 11-way head down sunset load. Why didn't I have 100 more head down jumps? My buddy thinks I could probably have pulled it off, but I don't go cause I don't want to funnel the thing. And all these guys are just world-class flyers. I tell you, next year I'm doing 40+ ways with the Bytch, Hotamaly, and the Billvon. And I'll be ready to get freaky with anybody who wants to get vertical. I'd also like to be able to do some of that ballet stuff with B-squared, but I've got my limits. A boy's gotta have goals.

I thought Perris was cool with the pool/restaurant/bar thing going on. All that and card tables too? Heaven, I'm in Heaven.....

Late model Taurus from Hertz. I've owned two. Good deal, still under factory warranty, cheap to work on (mostly) when they come out of warranty. You can still buy the extended factory warranty cause the mileage is low enough. When the current one gets retired I want a V8 Jag. I figure in the next 3.5 years a huge bag of cash will land on my lap or something.

Well, a skydiving parent gets him on the short list.

Dude! Seriously, if you are still at 50 some odd jumps you are going to experience all kinds of cool stuff. If you're about 30 you've got like 40 years of jumping ahead of you. Do an RW jump with your Mrs. and some other freaks once a week just for laughs. When you guys come out for the next annual Dropzone.com Perris Invation Tour you can at least be in the base. Think long-haul, and then haul-ass!

Passed out twice. First time was getting my first cortizone injection in my heel, second time was just from getting out of bed while my blood pressure was way down. Stress and fear are real similar in their physical symptoms, and blood pressure drop usually is what induces fainting. If you're in good shape and have a low heart rate

Done.

I give up. No more political participation here for me. Read the whole frickin post, reply in context. At what point in the past were we more peaceful? As a Mexican, if the US wanted to roll into your oilfields and take them, what could you do? If the US wanted to pick a real fight with Mexico, with what could they respond? No need to respond to this, as I am off the political threads.

Nate, California has freaked you out. B-Squared is like a Skydiving Ninja Chick. You keep talking smack and she's gonna kick your ass so hard you'll be wearing it for a hat! BB, when we meet in AZ, pretend to faint so I can pick you up and walk around with you so I can feel all macho. I'll buy you a rootbeer

You're too little to be really rough without some sort of tool.

Hood of a marked squad with the lights going. (With the Mrs.) Firetruck...Pfffft.

[replySort of a five year old version of diplomacy. True diplomacy is staying out of your neigbor's yard so you don't have to kill their dog - or better yet getting them to tie it up before you do. Although that's closer to common sense than diplomacy, really. Bill you're talking about a group that includes governments that starve, kill, and mutilate their own people, confiscate their property etc. I am not willing to let them decide my future. When I confront a person known to do violence, I hope for reason and diplomacy, but I am armed and prepared for violence if it is brought to me. I'm glad you can thoughtfully, truthfully believe the UN has our best interests at heart. Truth is, if most of the world were invited into your home they would kill you, take your treasure, rape the women, and eat your dog. The "steady state" of human nature is chaos and anarchy. We are fortunate to live in the most prosperous, peaceful stretch of human history. Leave well enough alone. If those folks keep their terrorist cult within their borders, fine. But they want to convert infidels like you and me, the world over, at the end of the barrel of a gun.

Diplomacy is saying "nice doggy" while reaching behind you for a rock.

ARgh. "Deuce, you're not on the list because "YOU SUCK!" Much more like it.

I am the shadow. I'm not in the video BECAUSE I SHOT IT! It's the frickin chowder Dude.

I did this at Perris in June (non-fatal). I was about 50 feet up, figured I'd be better hit the stupid bastard than toggle myself in, did a braked turn away, flared on time, biffed into that two foot deep magnetic talcum powder they keep out there to make packing new zero-p easier. Dug myself out of the ground and then figured out what happened. THE STROBE IS SO THEY CAN FIND YOU WHEN YOU CAN'T GET UP AFTER A BAD LANDING. As well as to let other jumpers know where you are. I gaffer tape mine to the top rear of my helmet and it strobes off my canopy, making me REAL visible in flight, and not wrecking my night vision. On that same Perris jump a jumper broke his back (para for life) and we couldn't find him for quite a while. He was under his dusty parachute. A strobe would have made his recovery faster. We had a really bad spot. I really enjoy night freefall, but night pattern work is an emergency procedure I'll keep current on, but don't enjoy. Stobe, good flashlight, multiple bright glowsticks, cell phone. Good luck. JP

[replyUnlike some of my YANKEE counter parts... And I'm thinking those salted roads would be hell on customized suspensions. No winter skydiving and no bouncing cars that go "Boomp"? No point in living.....

Bouncing is illegal and so is playing your stereo so that it is audible 50 feet from your car. If the car is in motion and bouncing, you can tag and arrest for felony reckless driving. Tow the car, do an impound search, find a roach and an unregistered handgun, nail 'em for that. I was always partial to the "operating a loudspeaker" section myself. "Ain't you got anything better to do?" "Nope. You're the best thing I got going right now" "It's not like I'm killing or robbing or anything" "No, it's not like that. I could shoot you for that." Frickin everything is illegal if you read enough code books. I'd much rather just grab your butt again Let's skydive!

Mountainman, what are you doing selling your RW suit with 50 some-odd jumps? You either need to update your profile, or get more belly jumps before you give up your RW suit. Keep it. There's always someone to jump with if you got all three: RW, FF, and Camera.

Decaf, Bill. And really sorry I didn't get to meet you when I was down there. You were pointed out to me but you were doing huge ways. When you guys tracked off it looked like a huge human firework. Beautiful stuff. The UN is like a High School Government. Let them do all they want until they start to do real damage. The US is like the Dean. Criminals, cleptrocrats, and crapweasels.

Nate, your meds are out of balance again...