[The Cajun]

Nine line bind means keep them in a predicament.
It refers to the block on a drilling rig which moves the drill pipe in and out of the hole. The block is moved by ganged pulleys which can have as many as 9 lines going to them (lots of mechanical advantage). When the pipe gets stuck (very bad thing), you crank up the diesels for all they are worth and pull (nine line bind) like hell. Pipe comes free or drilling rig collapses (a definite predicament).

[Quix]

Thanks.

Dad was a drilling mud warehouseman on this property when I was a teen. I’m 62.

Have been around the stuff [hauled more drilling mud than I ever wanted to] but didn’t learn all the terms.

Thanks.

[Quix]

Very interesting doc and video links . . .

http://www.examiner.com/x-3766-Phoenix-UFO-Examiner~y2009m5d23-LOST-documentary-changes-UFO-history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdrNKz60BVM

‘LOST’ documentary changes UFO history.
May 23, 4:39 PM · 9 comments

Everything we know about a legend may be wrong.

A long forgotten documentary which includes an analysis of a rare film taken by George Adamski, an icon from the early days of the modern age of UFO sightings, has surfaced on YouTube thanks to the effort of historian Neil Gould.

The 7 segment YouTube film is well worth watching in its entirety, but a particularly compelling segment discusses a seldom seen film, originally shot by Adamski himself in the presence of Madeline Rotterfor in the back yard of her house in Silver Spring, Maryland, in February 1965.

What the segment shows is the analysis done on the film, which—along with the testimony of Rotterfor, Sir Desmond Leslie and others who knew Adamski personally—makes a compelling case for the authenticity of the non-human origin of the saucer seen to dance in the sky.

Layered behind the photo analysis conducted at Kodak labs are a number of testimonials and accounts that shed new light on one of the most familiar names in UFO history prior to some point.