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QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 Another Navy favorite: Provide a new Comm Tech with a (very heavy) box of "Classified Line Feeds." Send him to the bridge. Bridge (who is in on this) sends him to the fantail, who sends him to the engine room, who send him to the foc'sle (bow), etc, etc, until he finally returns to the comm room, where they thank him profusely as they take the box from him. Line feeds, for those not familiar with teletypes, are blank lines... No I didn't get stuck with that one. I was USAFon a Navy ship. The CT's filled us in...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes Dan [:p] Not the Aux, but the Ground (GPU). [;)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Never say this to a cop... Sometimes you have to make a choice between a good laugh and an expensive one. I like the choice that was made here. While I was flying down the road yesterday (only 10 mph over), I noticed a cop with a radar gun sitting on top of a bridge. The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car and asked me, "What's the hurry?" I replied, "I'm late for work." "Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?" I responded, "I'm a rectum stretcher." The cop said "What.....a rectum stretcher, and what does a rectum stretcher do?" I said, "Well, I start with one finger, then I work my way up to two fingers, then three, then four, then my whole hand, then I work until I can get both hands in there and then I slowly stretch it until it's about 6 foot wide." The cop asked me, "What the hell do you do with a 6 foot ***?" I simply replied, "You give him a radar gun and park him on top of a bridge..." The ticket -- $95 dollars. The look on his face, PRICELESS
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Two simple questions to answer without cheating...Question 1:If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.Question 2:It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:Candidate A -Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.Candidate B -He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.Candidate C -He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.Which of these candidates would be your choice?Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.
ANSWERSCandidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.Candidate B is Winston Churchill.Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question:If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember: Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse* 7 have been arrested for fraud* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses* 3 have done time for assault* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last yearCan you guess which organization this is?
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress; the same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us inline.
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon I was just curious. Aviation is full of little things to beat up the new guys as Jim has alluded to also. Most of which would take a fair amount of detail to explain, but in the end, help to make the newbies understand a little more about the aircraft systems. One such tale is pull starting the APU. The APU is a small gas turbine that provides electrical power on the ground during prefight. It is normally not available for use in the air, and there is a little switch on the nose landing gear that disables it when the gear is up attached an uplock (a hook which locks the nose gear in place when it is up.) The uplock/switch can be can be manipulated on the ground, to make the airplane think that it is in the air, so when the new pilot or flight engneer goes to start the APU it won't start. The seasoned flight engineer, who pushed the uplock up will tell the newbie to just pull start it. Which, is usually met with resistance, because anyone knows you can't pull start a turbine like a lawn mower. The seasoned engineer will tell the newbie to hold the start switch to start, and will then pull the manual nose gear release handle, which looks kind of like a pull starter, releasing the uplock, making the switch and Violla, the APU will start, leaving the newbie the rest of the flight to figure out what just happened. And yes, this was done to me.
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Wow, Forgot all about the mail bouy! And the lobsterback ritual.. We dont have to many rites of passage that are funny, or can be posted here, but we did send one of our slower newbies over to the MOW building, to ask for some tie strips to hold down a lose tie plate, and some spike glue. My engineer sent the same kid to the diesel shop, to get a can of brake fluid for the air brakes on the locomotive. The shop forman brought him back, and told us to never send him into his shop again, ever. The real right of passage is the day you get marked up with your foreman rights, and instead of being the guy taking orders, your the one who has to decide what to do, when to do it, and how to get it done, with out killing yourself or anybody else. Only takes a day or two to figure out who is going to cut it. We have a lift bridge over a bayou that has a switch in front of it, where two tracks converge into one to cross the bridge. This switch has a switch point indicator signal, red for diverging route, green for straight route. We approached one night to a red signal, meaning the switch was lined for us to come off the diverging route, but we were early, and bored. Told our trainee that the red meant the bridge wasnt cranked all the way down, and he needed to go find the crank, and finish cranking the bridge down. He stayed out there looking for almost a hour before we called him back. Oh, he's a yardmaster now... Stay Frosty, Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes vsmith [:)] dharmon [:)] zardoz [:)] We, as the major entertainers in this thread, ought to take "Our Show" on the road. How much cover charge should be charge? What should we call ourselves? WHEN DO WE PLAY VEGAS? Hmmmm... railroad related: The Big Boys; The Flat Spots; The Road Crew; The Extra Boreds {get it? bored=board. haha]; [:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes vsmith [:)] dharmon [:)] zardoz [:)] We, as the major entertainers in this thread, ought to take "Our Show" on the road. How much cover charge should be charge? What should we call ourselves? WHEN DO WE PLAY VEGAS?
QUOTE: Originally posted by TARGUBRIGHT I like the Budweiser plan. I enrolled in it today. TIM A
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon This is going to have to be for one of the pro's......in the service, at least the Navy, we have things that we send newbies to find that aren't there...Ed,being the son of a chief, you know what I'm talking about...things like a roll of flight line, a can of relative bearing grease, or the infamous mail bouy watch.......what are the RR rites of passage, I know they have them?
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