Sunday, January 26, 2025

Memes and Things

                                             
Spitfire Under Bridge




































































Look Close


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36 comments:

  1. The beautiful sound of that Spitfire literally gives me goosebumps.

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    1. Nothing so sweet as the song of the Merlin !

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    2. Went to an airshow at Duxford, UK. Lots of Spits, P-51's, others. And B-17, and a Lancaster. Good Times, Good Times

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  2. "Gulf of Dixie" Now that I like!

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  3. Found a recipe for the Steak Bites with Pasta: https://us.thekitchengulp.com/spicy-garlic-butter-steak-bites-with-pasta/

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  4. For those interested, the header pic is Tuckerman's Ravine, located on the SE flank of Mt Washington, on the left and Wildcat Mt Ski Area on the right.

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  5. In 1972 I was driving cross country and it was late at night and I pulled off onto a dirt road in the farmlands in Kansas to sleep. At the crack of dawn a crop duster flew under the power lines and over my car probably 5 feet above me. I double checked the power lines as I jumped into the drivers seat to get the hell out of there and they were probably 20 feet high.

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  6. Those ""pardons are null and void. You have to have been convicted of a Federal crime to be eligible.

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    1. Zombie Richard Nixon would like a word with you...after he bitchslaps whomever taught you U.S. history.

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    2. Never tested in court thus no precedent. AND he has no standing. He's dead.

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    3. It was null and void then and the Demos wanted Jaworski to challenge it, but Jaworski understood Ford knew Watergate was going to tear the country apart, so he demurred.

      PS See Article II, Section 2 and then bitchslap yourself.

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  7. I could watch the Spit all day.

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    1. .............or Mustangs, Me 109fs, Me 262s, or basically any warbird that flies or has ever flown (video or on display).

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  8. Fly under a bridge and you will loose your pilot's license. Ask me how I know this...

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    1. Interestingly, the Pilot that flew a B-47 under the Mackinaw Bridge, though pemenately grounded, stayed in the AF and reached LT Colonel.

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    2. Henry Bowman’s Dad flew under the St. Louis arch.

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    3. In 1980 at 19 years old it was a $7500 fine or loose my ticket. How many 19 year old's have $7500? My uncle was a flight instructor and would train his nieces and nephews for the price of fuel. He was building his hours. I got my instrument rating for about $1400 back in 76-77. I have 3 cousins that are professional pilots. I screwed it up.

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    4. “Henry Bowman’s Dad flew under the St. Louis arch.”

      Yes he did.

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  9. That Spit is from the opening to a TV series, A Piece of Cake. Here is the story of the crazy stunt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUHpkv27uGc&t=3s

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    1. It was a thing back then. Ernst Udet made a career of it.

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  10. Look at the plane's shadow in this clip,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brd44OS0Ueo
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  11. Dear lord...at least a 68 Cougar.

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  12. My favorite Spitfire low pass....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w

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  13. The video of the Spit going under the bridge is from an old BBC series "Piece of Cake". Can be found on YouTube. It is very good. Lots of flying

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  14. As bad as Biden was and is, I'm not entirely sure that his senile dementia and criminality was worse than George IIIs terminal syphililitic madness and greed.
    Though it is certain that Biden hates the American people for wh I we are and what we believe, while George III just wanted to plunder us for our money and resources.
    John in Indy

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    1. Is this George in the room with us now?

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  15. What am I looking close for?
    Heltau

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  16. First photo: Talk about a case of win-win...

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  17. I saw a church in there.

    11 It was not a struggle, it was the happiest of times.

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  18. 1 Saw the episode many years ago. Barbara portrayed a Gypsies, clothed very similar to genie and makes me think that was the basis for the show due to someone’s creative thinking

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    1. I have seen and think I may have posted a stock photo of Jeannie in her outfit from that episode. I agree. I would wager that episode was probably the Genesis behind the later "I Dream of Jeannie" show.

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  19. The reason pills are $4 in India and $1,000 here is every other country in the world other than the USA mandates that pills be sold at the marginal cost of production. That means the patients in the USA have to pay the total cost of drug development because no other country allows drug companies to make more than a pittance of profit on drug or medical device sales. If it takes 10 billion dollars to make legal pill number 1 (with all the research, testing, etc.), someone has to pay that cost back. The rest of the countries in the world have mandated that it be US patients. It has nothing to do with our politicians, other than them not having the backbone to demand that if other country's want the drugs, they have to allow the drug company to set the price (that's not to say that politicians aren't in the drug company's pockets when it comes to protection from damages caused). Of course, once a patented drug is approved, anyone in the world can make it by reading the patent. It's a difficult issue, because even without the drug being detailed in a patent, there are plenty of devices that can be used to determine what the drug is made of. This is the reason that 90%+ of all drugs and medical devices invented since WWII were invented here; we're the only county that allows drug companies to make enough profit to recoup the development costs.

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