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If I had the $$, and the time...ok back to dream land...
1 posted on 02/10/2006 6:21:52 PM PST by oxcart
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To: A.A. Cunningham

(((PING)))


2 posted on 02/10/2006 6:23:16 PM PST by oxcart (Remember Bush lied.......People DYED... THEIR FINGERS! (M. Steyn))
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To: oxcart

If I had one Eagle Scout end up like Foster....


3 posted on 02/10/2006 6:25:42 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: oxcart
"Once over the ocean, there will be little opportunity to land the plane if he runs out of fuel."

It's only the "land" part that is problematic.

(Sure hope he makes it)

4 posted on 02/10/2006 6:28:47 PM PST by norton
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To: oxcart

Didn't something remarkably similar happen to him last summer?


5 posted on 02/10/2006 6:31:41 PM PST by msnimje (SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
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To: oxcart

I don't think I have ever heard the expression "balls to the wall". I know the old one of "balls out" referred to the governors on old steam engines which moved further out the faster the engine turned.


6 posted on 02/10/2006 6:31:46 PM PST by yarddog
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To: oxcart
What literally does the phrase "balls to the wall" mean

and how did this become a useful phrase to describe some action.

Similarly, the phrase "dead nuts on" to describe rocket science accuracy?

Who thinks up this stuff?

13 posted on 02/10/2006 6:49:42 PM PST by Bear_Slayer
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