Yeah maybe just. But I can see from what you doing to my other thread its definitely made you twistedsnyder wrote:Hey, I'm still alive!
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"The Rites of Passage"
Funny how they like to do that. I remember as a kid being taken to watch my dad sail in Olympic trials at sea off Barrenjoey. The 'old salt' in charge of the boat thought it was real fun to play jokes on kids, threaten to toss 'em overboard, send 'em to fetch things from the toolbox that didn't exist. Stuff like that. Got my revenge though. There was a real deep swell running and we were anchored most of the time watching the race. One by one, everyone started getting green and going down sea sick. Only me and the old salt left standing. He was looking pretty seedy though...eventually he caved and ended up spending the rest of the race lying flat on the deck retching over the side. Oh that was sweet indeed!Whitey wrote: old salts playing tricks on us. Never ask the Chief Boatswain for a Boatswains Punch...
BTW I have to ask... what is a boatswains punch?
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Hey, Snyder! I see you already know about the famous impassive Gallic shrug, the kind where the chin is dropped to belt level and the ears are pushed to the top of the head with the shoulders (you have to be Gallic to do it). It translates roughly as : " Life is a bucket of s..t, Monsieur. I quite agree, and while I`m prepared to aknowledge this fact, I shall offer you no sympathy, because, Monsieur, this is your bucket of s..t!"
"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad"
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This reminds me of when they were in the process of stealing the election from Gore. I was out to dinner with about 15 of my colleagues, being basically the only Democrat among them or at least the only one not afraid to say so. Finally, I said, "O.K., let Bush's kid be president. His presidency isn't going to be worth a bucket of warm shit anyhow!" 
p.s.: My comment derived from a famous observation about the vice presidency by John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, who served twice as VP under Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The Vice Presidency," he once said, "isn't worth a bucket of warm spit." Historians and others say that Garner actually said "pitcher" instead of "bucket," and that he did not say "spit."
p.s.: My comment derived from a famous observation about the vice presidency by John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, who served twice as VP under Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The Vice Presidency," he once said, "isn't worth a bucket of warm spit." Historians and others say that Garner actually said "pitcher" instead of "bucket," and that he did not say "spit."
[i]To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action; fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man -- Thucydides[/i]
Didn't think you'd find it in the tool box. Don't ever go ask for a skyhook 'cause there's none of them there either.Whitey wrote:Boatswain's punch is a boatswains fist right in the mouth as soon as the request leaves your mouth. You won't fall for it twice.
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or 'rotorwash' or 'flightline'...buford wrote:Didn't think you'd find it in the tool box. Don't ever go ask for a skyhook 'cause there's none of them there either.Whitey wrote:Boatswain's punch is a boatswains fist right in the mouth as soon as the request leaves your mouth. You won't fall for it twice.
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No regrets. You seem to have already fulfilled all rites of passage, and an "old" veteran such as yourself will appreciate the following because it has everything to do with the secret of aging.
Well, it appears that a Dr. Gerard Schellenberg at the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Research Center has isolated the genetic culprit behind aging. It seems that embedded in each gene is something called a "helicase", which is part of a family of enzymes, and that this helicase, for no good reason, peels apart the two strands of chromosomes that make up your DNA, and the next thing you know, you are sitting in the cockpit trying to remember how the hell you ever got there, and you can`t remember squat about your rites of passage!!!!!
Well, it appears that a Dr. Gerard Schellenberg at the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Research Center has isolated the genetic culprit behind aging. It seems that embedded in each gene is something called a "helicase", which is part of a family of enzymes, and that this helicase, for no good reason, peels apart the two strands of chromosomes that make up your DNA, and the next thing you know, you are sitting in the cockpit trying to remember how the hell you ever got there, and you can`t remember squat about your rites of passage!!!!!
"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad"
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
