This is a Must Read - Hilarious!!!
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| Author | Content |
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| dcparris May 18, 2006 7:27 AM EDT |
Helios, I laughed my hinder parts completely off. In fact, I'm trying to find where all of 'em fell right now. Let's hear it for Granny! |
| grouch May 18, 2006 7:48 AM EDT |
Seconded! If you don't read anything else this month, read this story! My mother is 86 and I can imagine her and Alice getting along great. She was inspecting aircraft welds when the lady in the story was putting rivets in B-29s. |
| jdixon May 18, 2006 7:57 AM EDT |
Helios: We obviously need a new law to apply to you, contributing to the deliquency of an elder. :) |
| tuxchick2 May 18, 2006 8:41 AM EDT |
Helios, what a great story. Even funnier is she's a better geek than you! :D |
| dek May 18, 2006 8:46 AM EDT |
I laughed my whole way through this!! Good on Alice!! And good on Helios for having the guts to teach her!!! |
| grouch May 18, 2006 9:01 AM EDT |
Somebody call up Arlo. This could lead to the Alice's Jolly Net anti-DRM Movement. You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net. Click right in, it's around the hack, just a lap around the CD track. You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net. |
| helios May 18, 2006 11:05 AM EDT |
You can get anything you want,
at Alice's Jolly Net. Click right in, it's around the hack, just a lap around the CD track. You can get anything you want, at Alice's Jolly Net. But...I really was only busted for litterin'...honest. Darned few can appeciate your humor grouch...count me among that dwinding number. h |
| mvermeer May 18, 2006 11:13 AM EDT |
Still, welding rivets... weren't those hammered or shot into place? |
| jimf May 18, 2006 11:38 AM EDT |
>But...I really was only busted for litterin'...honest.
don't forget 'creating a nuisance'. Nice piece helios :) We can only hope that we're that sharp 'if' we make it to that age. Discount the old folks at your peril! |
| dcparris May 18, 2006 11:46 AM EDT |
From the article: "(don’t ask me what a “NadKnocker” is…I don’t wanna know.)" Helios: Let me just ask if your Pa ever told you about the birds and the bees? |
| grouch May 18, 2006 5:42 PM EDT |
helios: >"Darned few can appeciate your humor grouch...count me among that dwinding number." Dwindling? Folks are already running for the exits? Hey, I didn't actually ~sing~ about Alice. I envy your good fortune in getting to know that lady. |
| tuxchick2 May 18, 2006 7:39 PM EDT |
Humor? |
| grouch May 18, 2006 7:58 PM EDT |
tuxchick2: I'm sorry. $ man -k humor humor: nothing appropriate. I think it comes with a non-defective ping. [edit:] (You realize I still blame you for the trauma you caused by revealing my non-audible ping, don't you?) |
| dcparris May 18, 2006 10:22 PM EDT |
> Hey, I didn't actually ~sing~ about Alice. Grouch: Send him the Ogg-Vorbis of you and your wife's duet of Alice's Jolly Net! Meanwhile, I'm probably leaving the country now. |
| grouch May 18, 2006 11:32 PM EDT |
dcparris: You have a mean streak. I like that. It would be cool if some *cough* talented *cough* singers + songwriters put something together along those lines for Alice. Kind of a show of appreciation for her and her generation still inspiring younger ones to stand up and fight. They weren't apathetic when the world faced a more direct, violent assault on freedom. |
| dinotrac May 19, 2006 3:39 AM EDT |
I'm so ashamed. So ashamed. So ashamed. To think that people I communicate with could spread such evil. Oh wait -- that's the Satanists. Way to go, Helios!! |
| helios May 20, 2006 4:00 AM EDT |
weren't those hammered or shot into place?... You got my interest up, so I actually drove out to Gaines Ranch/Heritage and visited with Betty. She seemed a bit miffed that I was not up to date on the science of high altitude aircraft design, Yes, rivets were "hammered". High impact and high altitude aircraft rivets were individually strengthened by additional "Flux" welding. One by one, and each plane held thousands of them. Seems the anti-aircraft fire would cause nasty concusions with even near misses. When stuff started falling off the planes at 18 thousand feet, R and D decided additional welding was called for. That's what Betty did. I have scheduled an interview with her concerning those days. While it has nothing to do with Linux, it has everything to do with what THIS generation could learn from that one. Tom Hanks has been telling us that for years. h |
| mvermeer May 20, 2006 5:51 AM EDT |
Re: Welding Great! Learning something every day... [edited] Like this: http://www.rosietheriveter.org/ |
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