November 2011 - Argghhh!

Got an e-mail from a Viet Vet bud last night:Bill -- I shot my first turkey this morning! Wow, what a rush!Scared the bejeebers out of everybody else in the frozen foods section, though...*snerk*Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!...

...is the Sergeant Major of the Army glowering menacingly from the cover of the Army Times saying "Lose weight or get out!" By golly, now that we no longer need you, we're gonna toss yer widebody ass!

-- that the sorta oblong portion of the Dual Whatziss was a rear-view mirror.Which is wrong, but it shows you're thinking. Here's an expanded view, with additional context...And all the guesses about the yellow thingumabob were -- ummmmm -- well, *wrong*, too.Now, if you're Army AeroScout material (or a former squint for an unnamed Three-Letter Organization), you'll notice something right off the bat......

In the world of Top Gun, it's Goose who dies too young. Kittehs watch movies, too. And in the Ziegenfuss household in Hawaii, they got the story backwards. In Top Gun: Hawaii, it's Maverick who dies too young, as Carren had to send him to Piddler's Green yesterday because he lost his fight with an internal flight of MiGs. Goose and family mourn today. Maverick is the tall dark handsome fella on the right. Gandalf the Grey of Castle Argghhh! went to Piddler's Green just a few weeks...

...leaving aside for the moment that I'd have to cut a hole in the floor *and* raise the roof. And I'm not sure I could sell SWWBO on that idea....

A kind of eerie little window to the sounds of the battlefields of the Civil War, courtesy the Smithsonian. In case the embedded video doesn't work (some systems block 'em) click here and get it from the Smithsonian website.

...about America in this PC-driven age of where s/he who is aggrieved the firstest and the mostest is the mostest correct, and the rest of us must adapt or be ostracized by those who have declared themselves our betters...

The accent is on the second syllable, as in "hor'RAH-sho." Pronouncing it like "horror show" is nekulturnij.Da. Is good?Is good.There's a cold front moving in, so instead of having the weekend off to decompress after passing our sim checkrides -- during which us two gringos impressed our 'Structor Pilot with both our ability to handle multiple simultaneous emergencies *and* our ability to function as a crew 'stead of as two separate pilots -- we're flying.I...