Via Phlegmmy…
I’ve always liked this song (which: Gary Jules' version of Mad World by Tears for Fears), and this video struck me in just the right way this morning. Some people’s creativity is simply astounding, innit? The video is more than worth the wait to download, even if you’re on dial-up. If you have broadband just sit back and enjoy. Twice, even.
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Yesterday’s “Quote of the Day,” (that would be MY term in quotes, not AFA’s) from the Air Force Association’s web site:
“What’s it like being retired?”
“My wife was asking me the other day, ‘What’s it like being retired?’ ... For the first year or so, I had plenty of time on my hands. I would get up whenever I would want in the morning. Nobody called me at night. I didn’t have anybody bugging me about work. No expectations. I could play golf whenever I wanted. And I told her I always wanted to know what it was like to be a Navy admiral.”
—retired Gen. Chuck Wald, joking about his experiences after leaving the Air Force in July 2006 following 36 years of service while addressing a Capitol Hill audience on energy security issues,
From a recurring feature titled “Verbatim,” which changes daily…
Did you get my note? I sent an email and asked if the planes are B1B Lancers. abestown.blogspot.com is the blog to look see.
ReplyDeleteYou can delete this comment when you finish reading it. Let me know at either on my regular blog on by email. Thanks
That quote is too funny!!!
ReplyDeleteAbe: I did get your note and I replied at 11:26 a.m. The original pic at the link you sent ("Dark Skies Over Brookville") is probably an MD-80/90, but the three aircraft in this most recent link are definitely B-1s! Nice shot.
ReplyDeleteJenny: Yeah, I really liked that quote. But I'm thinking more than a few of my readers won't. ;-)
Why is it, I wonder, that I have more squids than zoomies coming 'round these parts? Enquiring Minds(tm) wanna know...
I love the video and the quote. How do you find time to find such cool things?
ReplyDeleteI'm about to go to fist-a-cuffs with my Hughes Net. They did an upgrade on the email which was to be completed by Sunday morning. Hmm, it has now been four days with no Hughes email service.
Thanks Buck. Appreciate it a lot.
ReplyDeleteBuck, That is funny but my guess is this particular General did not play Golf, the USAF's real mission in life. Oh, wait you can't get above Captain in the USAF without a handicap greater than 10 so, scratch that. He must have a son or daughter in the Marines and is deflecting attention to the Navy for losing his progeny to the competition. Cause, that’s what I do when asked about my SN1 (who joined the USAF many years ago)!!! And yeah, I am an exSquid!! And by the way, my other Son is in the Marines, so I can play the game both ways!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteI stop in here because I visit several NM sites, missing the homeland of my birth. HAGD Buck!
JimmyT
Lou sez: I love the video and the quote. How do you find time to find such cool things?
ReplyDeleteWell, that question is easy enough to answer: I have no life. ;-)
I hope your e-mail is fixed today, Lou.
JimmyT sez: Cause, that’s what I do when asked about my SN1 (who joined the USAF many years ago)!!! And yeah, I am an exSquid!! And by the way, my other Son is in the Marines, so I can play the game both ways!!! LOL
Ah, we ALL have a black sheep in the family, eh, Jimmy? SN2 is a squid... a black mark on what would otherwise be three generations of SKY-blue service. Makes for "interesting" conversations whenever SN1, SN2, and I get together, tho. One would assume the same is true at your place.
(See, Jenny? What did I tell ya?)
Buck,
ReplyDeleteYeah, it makes for some fun times around the dinner table. Their sister is one of those University Liberals (knows everything, been nowhere but school).
I'll relate one funny story. SN2 told us about how is Platoon in Boot had to march in full pack mind you, 5-miles to the rifle range. He took boot at Paris Island during the summer months, you know the comfortable time to be in a swamp. Now, for those that don't know it, Paris Island is not that big for a 5-mile march, so they do laps around the place until they get the requisite milage. He shoots his 500 rounds and they pack up and do the laps back, again 5-miles round and round the Mean Green Machine went.
SN1 did his boot in San Antino, Texas (as you know, the only place the USAF does boot) and he relates his trip to the rifle range.
"We rode there in an Air Conditioned Bus"
Nuff Said!!!
Jimmy T