Posted on 05/24/2015 10:08:16 AM PDT by lbryce
I was born in 1943 and started "kindergarten" at age 4. KG was 2 years, rather like day care, more socialization than academics.
Finished 12th grade in 1961. During those 14 years we were never taught “duck and cover”. Never had tornado drills either. We did have three "surprise" fire drills every year, that was about all the disaster drill we got.
Regards,
GtG
“. During those 14 years we were never taught “duck and cover”. “
I remember in the 50’s practicing ducking under the desk. We even had one drill where we all boarded school busses and went about 10 miles out of town till we got the ‘all clear’ signal.
I must be missing the joke here?
Wii, the interactive video-game console you can bowl, play tennis, etc with in front of the TV.
No wonder I missed it..............
What if the eventual republican nominee turns out to be Hillary? (Yes, I know shes a democrat)
Maybe or it could be a warning to Iran and Russia.
I suppose it was an EMP vs electronic tech joke, but it was pretty obscure.
That question indicates to me that your original comment was not serious.
My thoughts exactly.
War is uncomfortable ...
Perhaps you grew up near a potential target?
I grew up in a small village (population about 1200). The village was actually a "company town" which wasn't close to much in particular. We were 90 some miles from Milwaukee. Civil Defense was not a high priority issue for our bucolic little backwater.
I found out later that NORAD had ringed Milwaukee with radar pickets and NIKE surface to air batteries. My Father-In-Law was a Lt. Colonel in the USAF reserves and had been posted to several of the missile sites. Years later he told me that most of the NIKE batteries were "hollow" and were mainly there for public relations. The real air defense was much further north, near K.I. Sawyer AFB in the UP.
Regards,
GtG
“Perhaps you grew up near a potential target?”
Two targets.
Eglin AFB and Tyndall AFB and a Naval Base.
Wrong. My original comment was indeed serious.
Gadzooks! The 'bad guys'... 
are 9th century retard scum cutting off heads, murdering prisoners, raping women & children and you are uncomfortable with any stealth weapons we use against them????
No, you don't sound like an idiot. Idiots have some common sense... 
You apparent do not have any at all
Cartoonish response, lol.
It absorbs radar waves best, and it is a natural color for a flock of birds.
Then no cartoon, I'll be literary as hell, you are a schmuck.
And if you do not know what that means, in American English, 'schmuck' is a pejorative meaning one who is stupid or foolish; or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person who make nonsensical statements.
So, how does that tickle your 'lol' bone?
I believe you meant “literal.”
Gadzooks, you are really living up to your reputation as a schmuck but I used 'literary' as a response to your retort that my original comment was in your parlance "cartoonish." Since you apparently also do not know the definition of 'literary,' it is "concerning the writing, study or content of literature" as opposed to a visual form, i.e. a cartoon.
Yet you do prove without a doubt, you are a schmuck in the literally sense of the word and its meaning.
Still tickling your 'lol' bone, mate?
Just so you will not have to scratch you head any more, here I am aiming at your lack of intellect but you have proven you have little, if any, of it to use--
BTW those weapons that hurt your sense of fair play so much are protecting your right to be a schmuck. And I'll defend your right to be one, but I do not have to agree with you or like what you say.
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