On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:24 -0400, H the K
wrote:

"Here, hold my beer while I..."

"drive under the streaming water of the fireboat in my 36' Zimmerman
lobster style boat."

"Here, hold my beer while I..."

"safely navigate my way from San Francisco to Hawaii."

"Here, hold my beer while I..."

"slow troll in record time and catch a record amount of stripers."

"Here, hold my beer while I..."

"while I shoot Stumpy."

"Here, hold my beer while I..."

"spend all my time on rec.boats."

TopBassDog wrote:
On Jul 30, 9:13 am, H the K wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:35:31 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:24 -0400, H the K
wrote:
"Here, hold my beer while I..."
My first flying instructor to me the two scariest words in aviation
a " Watch this ".
I'm on my toes when anybody, anywhere says that.
Time to duck.
--Vic
I took the $25 flying lesson (that's what it cost way back then)

"Flying lesson," Herr Krause?

Is that what the hooker called it?


Harry was such a gifted student that he only needed one lesson and the
instructor gave him his multi engine ticket on the spot. Now his father
flew airplanes all over the northeast without every having a formal
lesson, and was so good that he got a fireboat welcome in NYC for taking
the controls of a passenger aircraft and landing it safely after the
pilot had a heart attack.

D wrote:
H the K wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:35:31 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:24 -0400, H the K
wrote:

"Here, hold my beer while I..."
My first flying instructor to me the two scariest words in aviation
a " Watch this ".

I'm on my toes when anybody, anywhere says that.
Time to duck.

--Vic




I took the $25 flying lesson (that's what it cost way back then) and
was interested in learning, until a buddy from the Michigan State
Democratic Committee, with whom I worked on a campaign, died when his
private plane crashed. Years later, I guess in the early 1980's,
another friend, a printer who did all the forms printing for several
clients, died when his biplane crashed into a highway bridge.

That sorta did it for me.

I really dislike flying, even commercial. I like the time savings to
get to a distant location, but that's it. Everything about the "flying
experience" these days, from booking a ticket to hoping your luggage
made it, pretty much sucks.



Very true. There are so many unions involved it really makes it a pain
in the ass.

That's funny, I just don't have a lot of problems flying commercial.
Maybe it's just Harry's attitude that gets him sent to the back of the
line? That and the fact that the fat ass must walk a little at the airport.

GC Boater wrote:
On Jul 29, 7:29 pm, H the K wrote:
"Here, hold my beer while ..."

...my medical doctor wife whips my fat ass for....

Chewing my fingers into stubs......