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Posted by Mookie on Monday, January 5, 2004 12:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

M O O K I E [:D]


This one is for you. [;)]


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[8)] Mookie accepts!

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Posted by dharmon on Monday, January 5, 2004 10:11 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

tree68 [:)] [:D]

CONGRATS on the 2 new stars.

I guess that officially makes you a "two timer". [;)] [;)]

I wish you many more posts and a very happy new year.


Wait an apple polishing minute..

if two stars makes hima two timer

Dan now has three..That means Ménage a Trois![:-,]

Dan.. I never Knew!
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Sweet!!!!!! "I bet its been all those "Quickies with Mookie" [;)][}:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 5, 2004 8:21 AM
M O O K I E [:D]


This one is for you. [;)]


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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 4, 2004 9:51 PM
It is a little early for the Monday Madness edition but here it is anyway. [8D]


Just received an email with this link.

The thoughts are good, but I would like to see the word "Commandements" replaced. I don't think it is appropriate here. The word "Guidelines", to me, would be more fitting. But once again, maybe I am just getting to be an old fogey.


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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 4, 2004 9:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese

I have actually seen this on TLC. They worship them as if they were old relatives. There is a whole temple just for them.





Well, I would say it was time for a little hot foot around the place. [}:)] Funny thing, nothing left. [}:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 4, 2004 8:29 PM
I have actually seen this on TLC. They worship them as if they were old relatives. There is a whole temple just for them.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 4, 2004 8:13 PM
This link is not for the faint of heart. [}:)]

I include it because it is very different than what we would do here.

Here we pay to get rid of these, THERE they feed them. I won't tell you what I did with the last one I found outside. [:p]


http://www.joke-of-the-day.com/dailypic.php3


This is not much of a joke of the day tho.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 4, 2004 2:23 PM
Here is a train related story. [8D]


http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/03/offbeat.dog.ap/index.html


Thanks Nora, for the link. [:)]
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Posted by ironhorseman on Saturday, January 3, 2004 10:01 PM
A man goes shopping for a bra for his wife. He goes in this one store and asks the clerk for a bra for his wife. She asks "what type of bra for your wife?." He asks her "You mean there’s more than one type?" "Oh yes," says the clerk "there are three types. There’s the Catholic type which uplifts the masses. There’s the Salvation type which picks up the fallen. Then there’s the Baptist type which makes mountains out of molehills."

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Posted by ironhorseman on Saturday, January 3, 2004 9:55 PM
How do know if you were born upside down?
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You know you were born upside down if you're feet smell and your nose runs.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, January 3, 2004 9:50 PM
isnt that the corner in the roundhouse?(as mookie would say?)
stay safe
joe

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 3, 2004 9:28 PM
Kevin, man oh man. What are we gonna do with ya son? Now go sit in the corner!

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 3, 2004 9:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

tree68 [:)] [:D]

CONGRATS on the 2 new stars.

I guess that officially makes you a "two timer". [;)] [;)]

I wish you many more posts and a very happy new year.


Wait an apple polishing minute..

if two stars makes hima two timer

Dan now has three..That means Ménage a Trois![:-,]

Dan.. I never Knew!
[:D]
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, January 2, 2004 3:25 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

Tree68,
Would that be the truck?or the engine?



Heck, with a rookie, it could be either....

We have so few 'trucks' up here that most people use the term for anything in the station... Then, again, we used to carry our Bangor (a 40' extension ladder, for the uninitiated) on one of our tankers (tenders for those on the left coast). Around here if you want a truck, you'd better ask for a "ladder truck".

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 2, 2004 9:24 AM
The . . . . . Finally Friday edition is here . . . . . . . [}:)] [:p] [:D]


This should give you a laugh for the day. [:o)]


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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:07 PM
Jim,
We had plenty of squak remover,however we had
a surplus of SQUID & JARHEAD REMOVER!!
Don't really know why we had such a surplus.
I guess they did not mess with with US!!!!!

locomutt[8D]

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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:47 PM
Tree68,
Would that be the truck?or the engine?
Gee I didn't know you could have WETTER water![}:)]
Our ROOKIES were never subjected to things like that!!!!!![}:)]

(Hose strecher,HAW they don't exist!!!!!!!!!
Like HELL! Ihope you have not had the privilege!!!!!!!!!!





Right! and the check is in the mail.[8]

locomutt[:D]

P.S. CONGRATS on the2nd STAR SIR
I believe you deserve it! [#welcome]

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:35 PM
tree 68 congrats on two stars.
paula welcome to the forums.
stay safe
joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:04 PM
The commercial that says "Let Mikey try it: he hates everything" is for Life Cereal. [yeah]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:37 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

Go to the supply shed,

and get me a bucket of prop wash,and 50 yards of flight line!!,NOW!!!!!

locomutt

P.S. did I forget to tell anyone,I'm a former crewchief for UH-1's & UH-60's[?]



Hey Crewchief [8D]

I need a can of squak remover, now step on it. [}:)] [:p] [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:35 AM
tree68 [:)] [:D]

CONGRATS on the 2 new stars.

I guess that officially makes you a "two timer". [;)] [;)]

I wish you many more posts and a very happy new year.
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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:00 AM
Rookie firefighters are not immune from such errands as prop wash and classified line feeds. In an environment filled with imaginary things like "hose stretchers", one tends to become a little skeptical. A new product was introduced to the firefighting world a while back. It promised to flow water better, and especially to help put fires out faster. Imagine the poor newbie sent back to the truck for a bucket of "Wetter Water"...[:O]

[:D] DING! Two Stars! [:D]

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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:35 AM
Go to the supply shed,

and get me a bucket of prop wash,and 50 yards of flight line!!,NOW!!!!!

locomutt

P.S. did I forget to tell anyone,I'm a former crewchief for UH-1's & UH-60's[?]

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Posted by ironhorseman on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:54 PM
My mother-in-law dropped by the other day and I opened the door and asked her: why are you just standing there in the rain? Go home!

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Posted by ironhorseman on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:49 PM
THE TALKING CATEPILLER

This guy goes into a pet store and asks the clerk what kind of interesting pets he has. The clerk tells him of this talking catepiller. The man says "alright, I'll take him." The man takes the catepiller home.

Later that evening the man asks the catepiller "Hey, catepiller, you wanna go have a drink with me?" Catepiller says nothing.

The man figures the catepiller didn't hear him so he speaks louder. "HEY CATEPILLER! YOU WANNA GO HAVE A DRINK WITH ME?"

The catepiller still doesn't say anything. So the man shouts ]"HEY, CATEPILLER! ARE YOU DEAF? I ASKED IF YOU WANNA GO HAVE A DRINK WITH ME?!"

The catepiller then turned to the man and said "I heard you the first time I puttin' my shoes on!"

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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:55 PM
I have to admit I had to look that one up. I had heard previously that it had to do with a) sails as in the whole nine yards of canvas aloft....and b) loads of dirt and concrete as in a dump truck load. [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:58 PM
Originally posted by tree68

A little research on-line plus your aviation lead-in would lend one to believe that the origin you are thinking of has to do with the RAF. According to what I've read, it had to do with the length of the ammo belt on the Spitfire being 27 feet long. If a fighter pilot emptied his guns, he had used "the whole nine yards".

Go Air Force!
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B I N G O

I was never told what plane or what country the phrase came from. However, the Spitfire is just as plausible as any aircraft of that time frame would be. But whichever country and whichever plane, it still is an interesting story. [:)] I don't know about yall, but I love history and these little bits of info are very interesting to me. Anyone having another phrase please feel free to put it here. Oh boy, I can't wait. [:D] [;)]
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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:40 PM
A little research on-line plus your aviation lead-in would lend one to believe that the origin you are thinking of has to do with the RAF. According to what I've read, it had to do with the length of the ammo belt on the Spitfire being 27 feet long. If a fighter pilot emptied his guns, he had used "the whole nine yards". There are a number of other theories relating to clothing and sailing ships, but this one squares best with the period when the phrase came into use.

Go Air Force!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:17 PM
OK, one more for today. This is an open question and anyone who wants to venture a guess is welcome to. [;)]

I am not sure if the phrase is Navy or Army Air Corps (sorry my Air Force friends--you know the official U. S. Air Force came later). Well anyway here it is . . . . the whole nine yards. I have been told a story about this phrase and I would like to see if my story and other versions come close to matching each other. This should be interesting too. [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:50 AM
Thanks Dan. [;)]

The story I read years ago said the brass monkey was just that -- brass. And due to the difference in contraction and expansion of the different materials (iron and brass) this would cause the cannon balls to become loose from their pyramid on the monkey. But either way it makes for a neat story and interesting reading. [:)]

I sincerely hope someone enjoyed the story and learned a little something from it. [:)]

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