A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-26 & 27-05....I Have a Rant!!

To: Diver Dave; Billie; Mama_Bear; dutchess; Aquamarine; DollyCali; The Mayor; JohnHuang2; ST.LOUIE1; ..

By the way - - July 27th happens to be Talk Like A Mad Scientist Day!!

(For all of you who thought LadyX was mild and meek-mannered,
get over it ..:))

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121 posted on 07/27/2005 6:41:34 AM PDT by LadyX ((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- )))

122 posted on 07/27/2005 6:42:51 AM PDT by Just mythoughts

It's a Mad Mad Mad Maaaaaad world out there!

123 posted on 07/27/2005 6:50:38 AM PDT by Pippin ( This complicates things a bit!)

To: null and void

Ping to 121....

Thought this could make you laugh...

You can take advantage of... Talk Like A Mad Scientist Day!!

124 posted on 07/27/2005 6:56:53 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

Wow! I had not seen pics of that Memorial before. It is breath-taking! The photos gave me goose bumps.

We are planning a trip out to the East coast this fall (we're going to cart some stuff out to our grand daughter who is starting her Biomedical Technical Engineering Program at Duke *with a full scholarship*) and hope to include a trip up into DC while we're in that part of the country. If we make it up there, this Memorial will be a definite must see

Thanks so much for posting the images!

125 posted on 07/27/2005 6:58:19 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")

To: Dashing Dasher; null and void

What's this about Nully being a mad scientist?

126 posted on 07/27/2005 6:58:59 AM PDT by Pippin ( This complicates things a bit!)

To: Pippin; null and void

Shhhhh.... don't tell anyone...

He does have that glow about him!

;-)

127 posted on 07/27/2005 7:00:19 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

"Its' alive.....it's aliiiiiiive!

That's the sum total of my Mad Scientist vocabulary!

128 posted on 07/27/2005 7:01:05 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")

Congrats on the grand daughter!

I'd love to hear about your trip - perhaps a vanity thread when you've returned?

129 posted on 07/27/2005 7:01:20 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

To: Dashing Dasher; null and void

No, I won't tell a soul. ;o)

130 posted on 07/27/2005 7:02:16 AM PDT by Pippin ( This complicates things a bit!)

I have 2 rants. The first is: "President Bush secure our borders!" and the second one is to all state legislators and the U. S. Congress: Regarding convicted, serial molesters and rapists; either imprison them for life without parole, execute them, or tattoo their foreheads with the word Molester prior to releasing them.

131 posted on 07/27/2005 7:02:53 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Boycotting movies since 1988)

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?

132 posted on 07/27/2005 7:03:45 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

To: Dashing Dasher

"perhaps a vanity thread when you've returned?"

ROTFL.....are you trying to set me up re my rant above???

Thanks for the congrats on our grand daughter ~ we are so very proud of her! She is a real triple threat ~ sweet, brilliant and beautiful!

133 posted on 07/27/2005 7:04:12 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")

To: proudofthesouth

Good rants!!!

I agree!

134 posted on 07/27/2005 7:04:20 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

To: Dashing Dasher

This is different how?

135 posted on 07/27/2005 7:06:33 AM PDT by null and void (Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)

Too many Mad Scientists,
not enough Hunchbacks...

136 posted on 07/27/2005 7:08:14 AM PDT by null and void (Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)

Was being one a long time goal, or did you join the Navy and "they decided" what you wanted to become?!..:))

Wasn't really a longtime goal, but watching Lloyd Bridges in "Sea Hunt" probably kindled the interest.

I was working in the pipe shop as a pipefitter 3/c. Used to watch the divers when they dove on the ships alongside. As luck would have it, three vacancies in the Diving Locker occurred as a result of transfers and a retirement of a chief. Call went out for volunteers, I applied and made the cut along with 2 others.

Next came the "tests" to see if we were capable. 1. swim the length of the pier without fins. 2.A trip to the recompression chamber where they took us down to the equiv. of 120', on the way back up to "the surface," stopping at 25' and breathing pure oxygen for 20 minutes to make sure we wouldn't suffer from oxygen poisoning. 3. Dressed out in a MarkV diving suit and dumped over the side of the pier to walk around on the bottom. This was done to make sure we wouldn't become claustrophobic. Now this event was the tricky one. I was first into the water with the only instruction given was that the air valve for the suit was located front, right, near my waist. I'm on the bottom listening to instructions over the intercom speaker located in the helmet.

"Back straight out" came the message from the Chief. Okay, no problem - yeah, right. Again, "back straight out" and I answered back, "back straight out." "Move to your right" - "Move to your left".

Well, unknown to me, I wasn't moving anywhere but deeper into the mud and silt - waist deep. I was sure I was following all the commands from topside but all I was doing was digging myself deeper.

One final command, "back straight out" and I answered back "I am backing straight out." The chief said, "Well take your bubbles with you." "Hmmmm. I guess I'm stuck in the mud, chief." They pulled me out of the mud having a great laugh at my expense.

I passed the claustrophobic part just fine. With all the marching in place in the mud, I stirred up the bottom reducing visibility out those ports in the helmet to zero.

Once back up on deck, and observing the next diver, I found out that had I increased the air-flow through the suit with that air valve, it would have inflated enough to allow me to walk across the top of the mud - 35 pound boots, 64 pound helmet and breastplate, 120 weightbelt plus the canvas/rubber suit which seemed to weigh a ton.

Two months later three of us are TAD to Diving School in Subic for 8 weeks and we became hardhat divers. After school, most all the diving we did everyday was in SCUBA gear. One of the greatest times in my life I'll always remember fondly.

137 posted on 07/27/2005 7:08:44 AM PDT by Diver Dave (Because He Lives, I CAN Face Tomorrow)

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138 posted on 07/27/2005 7:16:00 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

To: null and void; Pippin

139 posted on 07/27/2005 7:19:20 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (They are not paying attention - what you project - returns to you.)

And her Granny will keep her on track!

(honestly - if you are going to travel to the East Coast and see places of historical and patriotic significance - I'd love a vanity with pix)

140 posted on 07/27/2005 7:28:30 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (On this day in 1940 -- Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon, "A W)

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