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- From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
- Subject: Re: Veteran's Day
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:02:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.114454.6269@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:
- >In article <Bxp14z.M31@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian) writes:
- >>
- >> Let me give you a very simple simulation of a night carrier landing.
- >>In your living room, place a stamp face-down on the floor. Back up fifteen
- >>feet, turn off the lights. Now dive face forward and lick the stamp with
- >>your tongue as you hit the floor. If you licked the stamp, you've just
- >>successfully completed a night carrier landing. If you failed, you should
- >>now run a motorcycle up to about 120mph, set yourself on fire, and jump off.
- >>This should simulate fucking up a night carrier landing.
- >
- >I take it they're difficult then, these night landings?
-
- Hell, he forgot to add that the postage stamp shold be stuck to
- a spinning turntable, during an earthquake.
-
- No, I've never done one, but I have a family friend who flew in
- the Korean war...His descriptions of carrier operations are
- surely entertaining.
-
- I found out later that he had several "kills"...He *never* talked
- about those though. Quiet little man.
-
- Peeve:I always wanted to fly a jet fighter...Perhaps I can
- buy a surplus soviet fulcrum or something?
-
- Regards, Charles
- --
- Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
- separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
- struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
- gourd. --Unknown net.person
-