Pedinska confesses: "I wink a lot... ;-} " in reply to:

"I still wish there was html coding for sarcasm/ stinger tweaking!"

Hmm. Sometimes I just drink a lot . . .

doesn't help much with the spelling / syntax / logic, but hell, whatever gets you through that dark night. And the sad thing is that folks like HornetGuy (whether he's what he says he is or not, it's still sad) and Dubya don't miss a wink. Something about conscience, or what separates us from the insects . . .

Curious, did you find a diff btw fighter and strike?

Not to dis those that believe some Beings should be capitalized, but those are often the ones in the services, with increasing influence, and with Hell's Black water in their veins, who tend to Believe in the Big vision of our wars. Sadly, having nothing to do with what was Beseeched. For those, one impishly wishes the Bit were true. Perhaps But for one's own Blame. Damn, again!

I still wish there was html coding for sarcasm/ stinger tweaking!

;-}

...because, as you say and as I've experienced, many Airwing Officers just have very little in the way of common sense. Some book smart people, yes, but would do some of the most unthinking things to an aircraft (i.e. wet-start) and wonder why we maintenance poges would get pissed. And another thing that worked against them was their ego, which was, to a point, needed to allow them to their jobs, but they do tend to think that they are infallible about everything. The officers that I truly respected as a person were usually BOOST officers or the rare ones that had the confidence offset with a large amount of common sense.

I figured he was, Pedinska, but figured I'd ask. I still wish there was html coding for sarcasm/ stinger tweaking!

sux to be him

You gotta be saving the world from tyranny, else you're just dropping bombs on poor people. Damn, that would suck. -- karrsic

It does (not that I ever dropped bombs on anyone)... but the realization that you are/were, by and large, an enforcer for the moneyed elite and corporate America is an incredibly painful shock to the system. It gives any person with even the least bit of humanity pause. The question is does Hornet Driver have that least bit of humanity? If he does can he get in touch with it? I am not sure because I have several buddy's that have never been able to find theirs.

He knows. He's just tweaking Buzz Operator's little stinger thingie.

That's too painful. Depilatory.

Brought to their knees by strips of hot wax. ;-}

You gotta be saving the world from tyranny, else you're just dropping bombs on poor people. Damn, that would suck.

I don't know why you guys don't believe he is who and what he says he is. I completely believe it, but then I spent 6 years of my life with feeble brained, morons like him who had been propagandized to the very top of their high and stupids.

Sir -- and I call him Sir because a) I believe he is who and what he says he is and b) because I had to actually get a sat. haircut, fucking work for a living and carry pack and hump my ass to and fro, so...

Sir, I would recommend you not continue to embarrass the Marine Corps (or the Squidly's as the case may be) by taking on your intellectual superiors in this fashion. Now I am not advocating that you retreat... no, no... just fight in a different direction because, right now, my learned compatriots (or just patriots for short) are turning this place into the Frozen Chosin. Perhaps if you read some books other than those on the Recommended Reading List for Marines (excepting Gen. Butler's of course... that is if it was ever listed, I can't recall), perhaps if you read a few books like the aforementioned All the Shah's Men, Overthrow (by the same author, Kinser) and War Is A Racket by our very own Gen. Butler, you might be able to then move on intellectually and eventually even locate, close with and destroy the true enemy to the "American way" (which I promise you is not these "liberals").

Just a few friendly suggestions... Sir.

I had a father-in-law like that. Marine combat pilot, fixed-wing and helicopters (in Viet Nam.) Was also the Marine Commandant's pilot for a while. Salt of the earth. I don't know how some folks remain centered even in their youth, but the phenomenon of the arrogant and callous boy wonder is by no means universal, even in a military which encourages it. Could it be their upbringing, I wonder?

Unless you're testing Hornetdriver to see if he's what he says that he is, I can tell you about wet-start, Jebbie.

I'm awfully proud to stay that one stick holder, my Dad, is a true-blue Obama man; clearly able to understand the difference (now) between protecting our freedoms and waging unprovoked war, of being a leader instead of a bully. Perhaps tough guy stinger bee, who fights dirty war for pudgy, gluttonous, rich, chicken-hawks, will come around in another 40 years. If he lives that long.

Thank you for your service. I do have a question for you about Naval slang though.

Now, I know what a gedunk is. I also know what "Sweepers Man Your Brooms" means. Things like bulkhead, topside, deck, "birdfarm", and "pogeybait" are easy.

I'm having trouble with the meaning of the term "wet start". Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

It's an old SNL skit, Dan Akroyd days, a parody of an auto ad with the moyle perfoming a circumsision in the back of a brougham. Not a parody anymore. Some car company is actually using a similar premise.

Ah, yes, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks. IIRC, it was a spoof on a real car commercial at the time, with some diamond cutter in the back seat.

And nowadays, there's a couple knock-offs as well, but not spoofs. The KFC one is of the same vein, but I think Toyota has a similar one. Why bother thinking up an original idea when you can steal someone else's ... and hope that everyone has LTM deficits and doesn't see what you did....

Cheers,