Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Old Days

The view from a window seat as a Super-Constellation takes off.

4 comments:

D. said...: Wow. Propellers!

I was last on a prop plane in the early '90s going from JFK to Dulles for a small convention, and upon landing I changed my ticket to something larger out of National because Yeeeesh! (I did know about National, but nothing was getting me on that aerial roller coaster again.)

Before that, we flew back from Germany (MATS). It is probably as well that I did not see the exhaust ports. That would have scared me.; 8/12/2012 11:37 AM
Chuck Pergiel said...: Gee, I dunno. Digital photos of analog machinery? Seems anachronistic somehow.

I flew on a turbo-prop a couple of years ago in the Mid-West. Very smooth, well, smooth as air travel ever is. No roller coaster-ness at all. But maybe the approaches in the Mid-West are longer than they are on the East coast.; 8/12/2012 12:36 PM
Unknown said...: rode in Connies from Anchorage to Kodiak ... most had an underbelly cargo pod and our weight made us use up damn near every foot of runway... loved the ride - like a cloud's shadow.; 8/12/2012 3:51 PM
Steamer said...: Way cool.... thanks for posting that.....

Steamer; 8/13/2012 5:02 PM