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  1. Military WISDOM "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance. ------------------------------------------------------ Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher "Aim towards the Enemy." ------------------------------------------------------ "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. - U.S. Marine Corps ------------------------------------------------------ "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------ "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal ----------------------------------------------------- "It is generally inadvisable to eject.... Directly over the area you just bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual ------------------------------------------------------ "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur. ----------------------------------------------------- "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------ "You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt. ------------------------------------------------------ "Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance - ----------------------------------------------------- "Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------- "Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything." - U.S. Navy Swabbie --------------------------------------------------- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth ------------------------------------------------------- "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal - -------------------------------------------------------- "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." - Joe Gay ------------------------------------------------------ "Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once." ------------------------------------------------------ "Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do." - Unknown Marine Recruit ------------------------------------------------------- "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies ------------------------------------------------------- "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------- "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan ------------------------------------------------------- "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." ------------------------------------------------------- "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - From an old carrier sailor ------------------------------------------------------ "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe." ------------------------------------------------------- "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash." ------------------------------------------------------- "Without ammunition.... The USAF would be just another expensive flying club." ------------------------------------------------------- "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies." ------------------------------------------------------- "Never trade luck for skill." ------------------------------------------------------ "Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers." ------------------------------------------------------- "Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight." ------------------------------------------------------- "A smooth landing is mostly luck; Two in a row is all luck; Three in a row is prevarication. --------------------------------------------------------- "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; We never left one up there!" ------------------------------------------------------- "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries." ------------------------------------------------------- "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it." -------------------------------------------------------- "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world.. It can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) -------------------------------------------------------- "A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't... flying his plane to its maximum." - Jon McBride, astronaut -------------------------------------------------------- "If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." - Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot) -------------------------------------------------------- "Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you." ------------------------------------------------------- "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to." --------------------------------------------------------- Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by.... the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there." ------------------------------------------------------- "You know that your landing gear is up and locked .... when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal." -------------------------------------------------------------- As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?". The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)
  2. The love story of Ralph and Edna..... Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head nurse director became aware of Edna's heroic act, she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.' Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?' Happy Mental Health Day!
  3. I couldn't figure out 1, 2, or 3, but I did get 4 and 5! Neat riddles! Those were fun. Thanks! I got 1, 2 and 4. I should have gotten 3, but I've had a gas grill so long it didn't even dawn on me. I never would have gotten 5 because I'm not very observant (except when it comes to finding caches....sometimes..).
  4. Honk! Honk Honk!! Congrats, Nancy!!! Triple Honk from Triple Crown! Congrats Nancy!!! That is a lulu of a photo! Way to go Lulu!
  5. Just read through your suggestion. I must say that this has to be one of the rarest threads on the GC forums. Why? Because the response is almost all positive and even the negative responders were pretty tame. The usual suggestion thread goes something more like this: The OP will say "I think that GC.COM should ban all caches that require disassembling highway bridges with a blowtorch." A few people will chime in and then the "If you want to ban this kind of cache, you'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers" fringe turns out in force to defend the idea of using blowtorches to disassemble bridges to retrieve caches. Some will say their favorite find required a blow torch and some will argue that eliminating blowtorch caches will keep a percentage of the new cachers from coming into the game. And there will always be someone (or twenty) from the "if you don't like _<fill in the blank>_ caches, just ignore them" fan club posting their favorite line. Usually, two or three pages of that goes by and then the thread wanders off into weeds for 30 pages of pointless bickering. So I was a little surprised to see an almost universally positive response. Too bad that TPTB have not seen fit to implement your suggestion. I'd use it. I know exactly what you mean. I tried to not be insulting or intolerant, so I think that thread avoided stepping on any toes. There are actually many reasons that people would want to ignore someone else's caches. Nowadays there are so many caches that we do have the luxury to be more selective if we choose to be. That idea just gives people another handy parsing tool. I wish TPTB would implement it. Maybe if enough people chime in TPTB will eventually take notice.....
  6. There are all kinds of things that some people like and others don't like. Books are a good example. I prefer books by certain authors and I won't read books written by other authors. I do the same thing with geocaches. Certain people hide caches I like and certain people hide caches I don't like. So I refuse to find geocaches hidden by certain hiders once I figure out that I don't like what they hide. I've created a private ignore list to hide caches I doubt that I will like. This removes them from my PQs. I've also created a favorites list to share caches that many people have recommended.
  7. Amen to that! One man's crap is another man's treasure... Someone might treasure it but that does not change the fact that it's still crap. That's why I asked for this over two years ago....
  8. Amen to that! One man's crap is another man's treasure...
  9. MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE NICKNAMES a.. If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. b.. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes. EATING OUT a.. When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. & nbsp; None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. b.. When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators. MONEY a.. A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. b.. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale. BATHROOMS a.. A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel b.. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items. ARGUMENTS a.. A woman has the last word in any argument. b.. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. FUTURE a.. A woman worries about the future until she b.. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. SUCCESS a.. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. b.. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. MARRIAGE a.. A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. b.. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does. DRESSING UP a.. A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. b.. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals. NATURAL a.. Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. b.. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRING a.. Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. b.. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!
  10. It's hard to tell who that is but he must have gotten a DNF...
  11. Question: What is that Hillary hanging on to? Answer: Obama's stimulus package.
  12. To me it's easy to shift gears depending on who you are talking to. I use the term "muggles" around cachers and I use the term "non-geocachers" when I'm talking to muggles. I had never watched Harry Potter when I first heard the term "muggle," so I never thought about it being a kiddie term. It is what it is. Finally. I think the game brings out the kid in all of us. That is partly why it's fun.
  13. That has my vote! Great shot! It has my vote too!
  14. Thanks for clarifying that guideline Marko. That guideline has always been a little nebulous to me until now.
  15. Wedding Fairy: A married couple in their early 60's were celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant... Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table. She said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish." The wife answered, Oh,I want to travel around the world with my darling husband. The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands. The husband thought for a moment: Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me. The wife,and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish. So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof...the husband became 92 years old. The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful should remember fairies are female.....
  16. I've gotten it many times. I skip caches if there is too much PO around them. The worst case I've seen was a friend of mine that was petting a lab that had run through PO all day. He got it on his hands and then all over himself. He got it so bad that he had to go to the hospital.
  17. It's working fine for me with Firefox.
  18. You are so DEAD...and so is John because he was laughing!
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