Real-time Mind Control Zombie Zot

http://www.MindControlUSA.com ^ | 12/23/06 | BibleBabe1

[RosieCotton]

I served overseas, but I dunno if that qualifies me for the VFW.

Spent most of my four and a half years (I extended six months) in Germany, plus training time in TX and MS and four months in southern Italy.

[rottndog]

Set ya up for that one...

[Professional Engineer]

How someone can go into the military and not "go anywhere" should be considered a minor miracle. Knock on some wood... ;-)

I spent 7 yrs, 10 months, 7 days on active duty. Except for a brief 2 month stay in Rantoul, IL, I spent the entire time in Texas.

It worked out well for my education. I had 90+ hours toward a degree at my DOS. I don't miss the only 2 hours a day of sleep required to do that.

[Professional Engineer]

I never got out of Texas, either.

I spent many day pumping jet fuel into this particular airplane, which is now a museum piece. You might notice the Apollo 7 capsule. Ignore that, I didn't get to refuel it.

[Professional Engineer]

Cool, a palindrome.

[Dead Corpse]

F/A-18 A/C was my baby. More specifically, the GE F404-400 series engines it sported.

[Professional Engineer]

I got yelled at by a Blue Angel crew cheif once.

His boys were in for an open house show. Being a good NCO I had to go supervise my troops dontchaknow. Make sure they pump gas correctly.

I leaned against #4 I believe it was.

[Dead Corpse]

Had a BA FOD an engine on the way into town for an air show. Needed to swap over their gearbox and VEN to one of our engines as a replacement. Did a record setting quick turn around for them. Including the test cell run and QA.

Favorite part of their airshow was the Big Bertha JATO take off. Un-fricken-real..

[Professional Engineer]

Had a BA FOD an engine

Durn B1-rd. Never know when they'll strike.

I like to watch C-130s in any form. That is one I'd like to see.

[Dead Corpse]

Bird strikes are no fun when your the guy that has to scrape burnt pureed bird guts out of the AB case so you can put a new set of guts in it. Or fan section, HPC, turbines.... Ever smelled semi-roasted seagull mixed with jet fuel and hot vinton coating?

I like the videos of the AC-130 gunships doing lowlight/night time fire. I'd hate to be on the receiving end for sure... Watching that thing roll down the run way then head dang near straight up spewing flames was amazing. You wouldn't think the airframe would withstand it as well as it does.

Fat Albert going up... on Youtube...

[Monkey Face]

The Thunderbirds have been practicing for the last week...I love air shows when I don't even have to leave home. :o]

[Peanut Gallery]

I was in Boot camp in Great Mistakes, then A school in California, and C school in Texas. Then off to P-cola for more training. Then finally, after two years of training, I made it to my first duty station in Georgia. Was stationed in Georgia until my EAOS.

[NicknamedBob]

I was one of them there "college punks" who got drafted in '67. They must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel if they thought we'd make good soldiers.

Then after I took their tests, they kinda scrtched their collective head and said, "Which school do you want to go to?"

I had to sign up for another year, but the school was almost a year long. Essentially, they were paying me to go to school.

... and learn about computers and rockets.

[Dead Corpse]

We used to head into Savannah, GA to mess with the Hunter Army Airfield soldiers. They had a serious "redlaces"-n-Doc Marten's problem. Enough so that it made the local news.

Used to love St. Patties Day down on the river front.

[Dead Corpse]

I talked to the Navy folks, they took one look at my scores and wouldn't talk about anything other than Nuke Tech program. The idea of spending months under the north polar ice cap with a bunch of guys working on the reactor had zero appeal.

Talked to the Air Force, they kept pushing games and theory, but said if I had my heart set on mechanic they could fit me in. Either "tomorrow", or "one year from tomorrow". Neither was what I was looking for.

Talked to the Marines... "Boot's a b*tch. Training is hard. No guarantee's. But we can get you there in about six months... sign here..."

The rest is rather pathetic history... ;-)

[fanfan]

... and learn about computers and rockets.

Good thing too or we'd be traveling to Mars in hot air balloons.

[NicknamedBob]

I considered using balloons to stage a high-altitude launch.

One of the problems of going into space is that you have a lot of atmosphere to punch through. If you ride a balloon up very high, and then take off from there, you'll need somewhat less fuel.

[Dead Corpse]

That is pretty much what Burt Rutan and Co. did with SS1 riding the White Knight carrier aircraft up to altitude, then rockets up from there.

[NicknamedBob]

True, no doubt he got part of the idea from the Pegasus rockets.

http://www.orbital.com/SpaceLaunch/Pegasus/index.html

[Monkey Face]

I thought we used balloons when we went on our "beer run?"

[NicknamedBob]

We did.

We used balloons when we lifted off from Lake Fate, when we arrived at Loch Ness, when we went on the beer run,

*breathe*

... when we lifted off from Loch Ness, when we picked up the Thrust Ring in the Norwegian Sea, when we flew over the North Pole, when we left Kauai (Hawaii), and when we landed at Eniwetok.

That's where we dismantled them and sold off our huge jet engines.

All of our remaining flights, (to the Moon and Mars), have been using the thrust of Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines.

But those huge hot-air balloons seerved us very well!

[Monkey Face]

So...will we ever need balloons again?

[NicknamedBob]

Balloons are only useful in atmosphere.

Do you want to have some hot air balloons flying around in the Castle enclosure?

I would be a little challenging, without normal circulation patterns, but it would be a lovely sight, wouldn't it?

[Monkey Face]

Oh....I think I need to go to bed early tonight...my mind was conjuring something else...this is wierd...Hot air balloons in the castle? They'd have to be small, wouldn't they? Like the dragonettes?

[NicknamedBob]

No, not inside the Castle. In the meadows surrounding the Castle, just beyond the moat.

They wouln't have much room to maneuver, and we'd have to hand-build everything, but it might be fun!

[Monkey Face]

It would certainly provide some "diversion" for folks who get tired of the same ol' thing ~~ looking out the portholes into endless space....;o]

Maybe we should ask for volunteers to help put them together...?

[NicknamedBob]

We'll ask Dead Corpse to provide whatever hardware we need from his capacious and industrious forges.

The baskets will have to be woven from bamboo, and we'll have to work out how to make plastic for the balloons.

We'll have plenty of gas for the burning, but we wouldn't want to do too much of this and tax our oxygen regeneration capacity.

I think it's "worth the candle."

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[fanfan]

I'll help!

I love distractions.

I specialize in distractions, actually.

[sionnsar]

Dang!

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[fanfan]

The end.

How's your traveling going?

[Professional Engineer]

I recognize that sign.

[JRios1968]

Deja vu?

[sionnsar]

"Deja vu?" asks JRios1968 in #4033.

Yes, it's deja vu all over again.

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[Soaring Feather]

Gonna be a hot one.

[Das Outsider]

Veja du? You're speaking that bastardized Suisse-Deutsche again, aren't you?

You're speaking that bastardized Suisse-Deutsche again, aren't you?

[Soaring Feather]

Ooops, we are going to be interviewed.

[NicknamedBob]

No Piñatas shaped like me, of course.

[Soaring Feather]

Okay!

[Monkey Face]

*pant-pant*

*whew* Just in time! That was close!

[Jet Jaguar]

“I recognize that sign.”

It’s back!

[Das Outsider]

*whew* Just in time! That was close!

The zombies didn't get to you, I take it.

[Das Outsider]

Ooops, we are going to be interviewed.

I didn't see an overbearing mustache or cheesy shoulder tattoo, so I'll assume that Geraldo isn't involved.

[Monkey Face]

Nah...I’ve been down to the Lower Levels with Darksheare. The zombies think I’m a protected goddess of Undead Things. They may well be right...;o]

[sionnsar]

No Piñatas shaped like me, of course.

No? What about this one? Almost the spitting image, I'd say...

[Das Outsider]

That’s all well and good, but how is your brain these days? Tasty and succulent, is it? Not that I’m interested, of course. I’ve just got this friend who...

[Monkey Face]

I have a Superman T-shirt, but not the cape or long underwear, so that’s gotta be NnB.

[Monkey Face]

Would your friend’s name be Hannibal, by any chance?

[Das Outsider]

Would your friend’s name be Hannibal, by any chance?

Yes, and he's still mad about Carthage!

[sionnsar]

Veja du? You're speaking that bastardized Suisse-Deutsche again, aren't you?

No. Viennese. Of course, a liberal application of Glühwein doesn't hurt.

After a liberal application of Glühwein nothing hurts.

(Except maybe one's head in the morning. *\;-)