Good landing.
Posted on 07/22/2005 7:33:14 AM PDT by pissant
On this day in 1933, Wiley Post touched down his airplane in New York, becoming the first pilot to fly solo around the globe!
On this day in 1934, Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger, was gunned down in the streets of Chicago.
And on this day in 2004, the one and only Dashing Dasher, after slamming down 4 martinis, signed up on FreeRepublic.
These historic events have much in common. Wiley Post was a brave pilot, risking life and limb in a rickety single engine plane. Dasher is FR's resident pilot racer, tormenting her male colleagues above the western fruited plains. A Calamity Jane in goggles!
And Dillinger was a notorious gang leader, surrounding himself with violent criminals and ne'er do wells. Dasher too has become a gang leader on FR. She has lead JimRob's beloved website into dark places that make the upstanding citizens here hide the women and children.
She is many other things as well, too numerous to list in full. But they include: Conservative infiltrator in liberal San Fran, Toughie NJ bodyguard for those who get harrassed, Unofficial FR Dominatrix (with a growing clientele), and most importantly, the subject of poems and limericks from her adoring fans.
So on this Friday, July 22, 2005, let's raise our glasses and offer a hearty toast to this east coast bred California girl, and thank her for settling down in our corner of the world!
wath that you thay?
ooooooohhhhh....shhhtop!
I've been on once. Formatting was weird. Layout was weird. Posters were weird.
From what I've heard they believe tennis players shouldn't be allowed to grunt
After today's excitement - the Clown Posse crowd doesn't seem so bad.
I flew (in my Cherokee) a friend up to his vineyard this morning. On the way home - I noticed my right shoe was covered in .... BRAKE FLUID... I had just had some maintenance done on the brakes - and well, they broke.
I'm headed home and I'm pretty certain I don't have brakes on my right side. We have two runways - short and long. I'll need the long.
The next thing I know - a Southwest Airlines 737 performs a GO AROUND (nearly unheard of in a commercial plane) and they need to close my LONG runway for 15 minutes (long story about why - suffice it to say it is the rarest of rare conditions).
I'm circling - getting more nervous - it's 95 degrees - felt like 150.
Finally, It's my turn. I landed on the #s and was able to get it stopped before the end of the runway and was able to get it off the runway - had someone tow me back to my spot.
THEN... I found a dead mouse in my hangar.
THEN... I drank a beer - or two.
Enough fun for one day - I believe.
Where's that third beer?
I'm back to work for a while now, not much time for FR or anything else.
Good landing.
Darn!
We sure missed you.
I'm still up for the trip to Hollister when we both have some time again. I'm thinking October!?
Are you going for the Garlic this weekend?
What every HANGAR needs!
LOL!!
LOL!
Happy anniversary, DD. :)
Thanks!
Sorry you missed the cake!
I'd rather go to your Italian Family Picnic!
I bet the food's better!
;-)
I'd go back in a minute if the plane flights weren't sooooo long. Next time it will be a straight shot and first class, the last time was a tour we won!
I just dropped-by and looked at the Klown Palace...
Appears to be the internet equivalent to a half-way house for a bunch of sick & twisted control-freaks, probably made exponentially worse by self-medicating if ya know what I mean ;-)
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