To: George W. Bush
Of balls and walls, I have both.
Get out of the flesh there, brother. :>)
Think of the throttle with a ball on the end going up to the firewall on WWII aircraft.
All the way forward = maximum speed.
Cars....stick shift with ball on top, 5th gear, firewall....balls to the wall.
26 posted on
08/02/2007 6:59:17 PM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
To: xzins
Really? Okay.
I still don't think most people know that though. Aircraft throttles and stick shifts in close proximity to firewalls isn't generally the stuff of pop culture.
27 posted on
08/02/2007 7:12:08 PM PDT by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: xzins; George W. Bush
"Balls to the Wall" -- Get out of the flesh there, brother. :>) Think of the throttle with a ball on the end going up to the firewall on WWII aircraft. All the way forward = maximum speed.Yeah, cut George some slack there. I can easily identify any mass-produced WWII combat aircraft by profile, and I didn't know that was the term's origin.
(Not all of us have served, X; some of us are just military-aficionado civvies)
32 posted on
08/04/2007 2:34:09 AM PDT by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
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