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  1. 19 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    I wonder how many times they said "no passengers? Can we shoot him down. Pretty please????" 

    Actually if you've ever met one of those guys, they really, really don't want to shoot down a civilian plane, passengers or not.   

    1.   With passengers, they know it's going to cause all sorts of shit.

    2.  Without passengers, their fellow pilots will give them all sorts of shit.

  2. Had to be Oregon ANG out of PDX.    They're the only ones flying F-15s within the distance that could have gotten there that fast.   From PDX to that part of the Puget Sound is doable once the dude took off from SEA.   If he really did fly out to the Olympics and then back to the South Sound they could have scrambled and been into the area pretty damn quick.   I'm guessing that civilians bitching about sonic booms goes out the window when a plane gets hijacked nowadays.   

  3. I used to live in University Place, maybe a half mile away from where that video of the crash was shot from, so yes, this hits close to where I used to call home.  That video is looking just to the south of the Chamber's Bay Golf Course where the U.S. Open was played in 2015.  

    Where exactly did the F-15s scramble from?   McChord is to the SW about 10 miles away in Lakewood but they only have C-17 Globemaster cargo aircraft.   Fairchild is about about 25 minutes east at supersonic speed in Spokane and they only have KC-135s tankers.  There aren't any F-15s in Alaska and they fighters up there (F-22 at Elmendorf and F-16s at Eielson) are about 2 hours out if you're supersonic the whole way and that's a lot of fuel.    Maybe the ANG from Portland got up there fast enough to pursue but they're still 15 minutes away even if they go supersonic and that's barely even counting scramble time and clearing PDX airspace.  Even then, they'd have to swing out over the Pacific to do so with out breaking a shit ton of windows in the greater Portland/Vancouver area.  

  4. 7 hours ago, qwertyu1234 said:

    NSIAP but Christian Slater as Lucky Luciano in the movie Mobsters.

     

     slater-mobsters.jpg

    Mobsters was a shitty movie all around.  Can't fault Slater for a terrible movie.

  5. 34 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I think this a woman thing in general.  Who are the first people to seek out and chat with EVERYONE at the office at 8am?

    The women. Always the women.

    There are at least 5 women on my floor who come in everyday talking on their cellphone to someone else.   One of them then proceeds to go sit in the break room for 15-20 minutes EVERY morning to continue talking.   After several months of this, I asked her who she was talking to every day.  Her mom.  

    She then tells me that they talk every morning on her drive in (at least 45 minutes according to her), plus the 15 minutes after she gets to work and then she calls her mom again on the drive home.   She admitted that on the weekend she probably talks to her for another 2-3 hours a day.  WTF?    15+ hours a week talking to the same person on the phone?  And her mom lives here in Houston.   Like 10 minutes away from her.   They see each other all the time.   I about lost my shit when she told me that they go shopping pretty much once a weekend and spend 5-6 hours together and then when she drops her off at home, one of them calls the other.  And this woman has 2 kids (one in grade school, the other in middles school.)   She's married too.   It's not like she doesn't have a shit ton of other stuff to do as a mom/wife.    Her husband is either the biggest weenie in the world or he's just glad she's not talking to him.

    I don't think I talk to any one person in my family for more than 2 hours the whole week unless we're on vacation or something.

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  6. On 8/3/2018 at 3:53 PM, troph said:

    Huckleberry top 75. Sheeit... that recruit ain’t got nothing. I’d make the huckleberry top 25 of chicks on Surly I’m sure.

    That list is certainly not long.   Or distinguished. 

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  7. 15 hours ago, TexasBeta said:

    “Three things can happen when you pass, and two of ‘em are bad.”

    Darrell Royal
     

    Coach Royal had a lot of them:

    "Hell no, I'm not going to candy this up.  These are works clothes "- On changing our uniforms.

    (TCU) is like a bunch of cockroaches. It’s not what they eat and tote off, it’s what they fall into and mess up that hurts.

    And this one from James Street.    Always liked the counter subconscious subterfuge....

    "Randy, I'm talking to you. I'm looking at Cotton but I'm talking to you!"
    -- James Street to Randy Peschel (but pointing at Cotton Speyrer in emphasis) in the huddle before the 4th and 3rd play against Arkansas in 1969. Street had noticed the Arkansas players looking into the huddle all afternoon

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  8. Eastwood almost always picked good roles.   But my favorite is William Munny.   And Gene Hackman was excellent as Little Bill.

    Somebody posted Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.   That whole cast was excellent.   

    And while we're on the topic of cheesy WWII movies:

    Lee Marvin - John Reisman

    Robert Ryan - Colonel Breed

    Donald Sutherland - Pinkley 

    Donald Sutherland - Oddball

    Alec Guinness - Lt. Colonel Nicholson

    Richard Burton - Major John Smith

    And non WWII movies:

    Michael Caine- Lawrence Jamieson

    Steve Martin - Freddy Benson

    Denzel Washington - Creasy

    Dakota Fanning - Pita

    And not a movie but pretty much the whole cast of Band of Brothers nailed it.  But especially Damien Lewis and David Schwimmer.

     

  9. 15 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Arnold Schwarzenegger- Conan the Barbarian

    Daniel Craig- Bond James Bond

     

    Sort of on Daniel Craig but Sean Connery did it better, but of course.

    And Gary Oldham as Norman Stansfield was perfection.   And so was Jean Reno as Leon.

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  10. Talk to me, Goose.

    You're not going to be happy unless you're going Mach 2 with your hair on fire.

    You'll get nothing and like it!

    Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!

    I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!

    Right. That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

    Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

    Well it looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! 

    Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

     What is your major malfunction numbnuts? Didn't mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?

    Sir, Does this mean Ann Margret is not coming?

    Joker...  I want you to get straight up to Phu Bai. Captain January will need all his people.

     

     

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  11. Quote

    The mountains are calling and I must go  

    John Muir.    That quote means a lot to me.   Especially now that I don't leave anywhere close to a mountain anymore.

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  12. Spec's in Kingwood is such a shit show that I'd rather shop at the smaller, pricier mom and pop shop closer to my house.   Twin Liquor opened a new store by the (rebuilt) HEB but it's fairly small and doesn't have a very good selection.  There's a good Total Wine over in Humble but kind of out of the way unless I want to deal with 1960 traffic.    

    The Kingwood Spec's has a fairly shitty selection of real booze.   Wine is OK but TW kicks their ass and my local store has about the same selection of bourbon/whiskey.   Might be a bit more per bottle but the family who runs it is nice and super friendly.   

  13. On 7/26/2018 at 11:57 PM, shnsajax said:

    I’m still in awe of the Spaghetti Factory having at 30,000+ sqft location on the river in downtown Portland. How the fuck they can afford that I have no idea selling $12 plates and drinks.

    They have to own the land.   It's been down there since I was a kid in the 70's.  And it's usually fairly busy too.  

  14. On 7/29/2018 at 3:45 PM, kopp0e said:

    Tennessee Volunteers with the classic look:

     

    Getting closer and closer to the old school Tampa Bay Buccaneer look every day.   

  15. 7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, his resume is a long way from mind-blowing, but he does have a masters degree, and doesn't exactly make private sector C-level money, whereas his secretary graduated from high school and makes more than almost all AISD teachers.

    Let's not get too crazy with our faux outrage here.

    I'm not outraged by this story at all.   It is what it is.   But I bet there are 20 or more "Chief XXX Officers" who work for city of Austin.   Are they all C-Level?  

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