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Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 30
December 31, 2006 | Me

Posted on 12/31/2006 7:08:41 PM PST by Mo1



TOPICS: Dimensional Doorway; Freeoples
KEYWORDS: dimensionaldoor; freeople
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To: Cardhu
I like el Pulpo:


3,441 posted on 02/14/2007 1:58:00 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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To: null and void

It is a favorite dish around here -- even I love it now.

Pulpo con patatas --- I love to mop up the salsa with fresh made bread.


3,442 posted on 02/14/2007 2:06:17 PM PST by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu; null and void

Pulpo? Is that Spanish for octopus? I've eaten squid before so maybe it isn't so bad. In Hawaii us kids wouldn't buy candy with our nickels we'd buy squid. It was a real treat for us! Thinking about it now, it seems kinda strange.


3,443 posted on 02/14/2007 2:12:49 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak

You were in Hawai'i? When? Where?

Kaneohe, '53-'56 here...


3,444 posted on 02/14/2007 2:15:57 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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To: null and void

Hickam AFB, Oahu...65-68. Great place for a kid to grow up. A lot of fond memories came from that place. It was beautiful.


3,445 posted on 02/14/2007 2:31:08 PM PST by derllak
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To: null and void; derllak

Hi you guys -- I was in Pearl in April or May of 1954 on my way around the World.


3,446 posted on 02/14/2007 2:32:12 PM PST by Cardhu
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To: derllak
I was a bit young to remember much of it. I do vaguely recall the bullet holes in Scofield Barracks.
3,447 posted on 02/14/2007 2:37:41 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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To: Cardhu

Wow, Cardy! Were you visiting or stationed there? What was your impression of the place? I was there when they filmed Tora! Tora! Tora!. All those planes overhead about made me wet my pants. I was in duck and cover for about 15 minutes til somebody told me they were just filming a movie. Lol! I thought it was real. Der!


3,448 posted on 02/14/2007 2:39:08 PM PST by derllak
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To: null and void

What happened at Schofield? That sounds mighty familiar to me.


3,449 posted on 02/14/2007 2:40:26 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak

The Japanese paid a courtesy call in 1941...


3,450 posted on 02/14/2007 2:42:37 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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To: derllak

Just visting to show you guys what a real naval ship looked like - :)


Everyone is going to kill me.


3,451 posted on 02/14/2007 2:48:11 PM PST by Cardhu
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And it never got fixed?? You remember the air raid and tsunami sirens, don't you? Did they practice duck and cover at your school, too? That Japanese attack sure left a lasting impression over there. I wonder if they still do those drills.
Those dang sirens sure got the lead outta my pants! Kinda scary for a kid.


3,452 posted on 02/14/2007 2:49:32 PM PST by derllak
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To: Cardhu

Lol, Cardy! I'll spare you if you say you're sorry! :P


3,453 posted on 02/14/2007 2:50:51 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak
They had made the decision to not patch or paint the holes as a lasting reminder. For all I know, they are still there.

I was too young for school when I was in Hawai'i.

But I do remember the Cuban Missile Crisis from the viewpoint of a kids on a Marine Corps base in the southeast.

We found out the [classified] location my dad's squadron had been relocated from the Terry and the Pirates comic strip...
3,454 posted on 02/14/2007 2:54:53 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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Oh, you were just a babe then. Growing up military sure sucked sometimes, but it had great advantages too. I'll bet you have a lot of great memories of it. I never minded the moving so much when I was little, but it gets harder when you get older. Having to leave friends and trying to make new ones. But I've met people and seen places that I wouldn't have otherwise. On the whole it was a great adventure for me.


3,455 posted on 02/14/2007 3:05:38 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak
Thanks Derly -- sorreeeeeeeeeeeee

This my fourth or fifth ship, HMS Newcastle in Hong Kong. I had wrecked my last one in St Ives.



3,456 posted on 02/14/2007 3:06:16 PM PST by Cardhu
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To: derllak
What was your impression of the place?

Oh! I thoroughly enjoyed my stay there – everyone was great. At that time we were not allowed to exchange much money as every dollar had to go to pay off our national debts. So we were only allowed to exchange $5.

Five dollar in Hawaii … but our scouts returned and said you could go to a restaurant and get a salad for $5 – of course we thought that wasn’t very thrilling remembering English salads which were a bit of limp lettuce and a tomato past its prime. But they assured us this was different, and it was huge enough for four people and loads of different stuff --- so for $5 we could feed four.

One bowl of salad and four forks.

But the newspapers published our plight and we had hundreds of people coming and offering to take sailors for a night out. Really nice people.

It was the first time I had heard American radio and it was so action packed it was hard to keep up with it, with its million commercials but it was fun to listen to. Much better than our stodgy BBC. Though I doubt I would hear plays of Euripides on an Hawaiian station. :)

3,457 posted on 02/14/2007 3:57:59 PM PST by Cardhu
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Awwwww.....thank you, darlin'. *SMOOCH*
3,458 posted on 02/14/2007 4:27:43 PM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: null and void
"So, how are you? How's the car?"

I'm fine. Car is in better shape than I originally feared....*keeping fingers crossed that there are no new developments*

3,459 posted on 02/14/2007 4:31:28 PM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: sweetliberty
*blush*
3,460 posted on 02/14/2007 4:34:26 PM PST by null and void (This sentence no verb...)
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