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JediMaster

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  1. Do any of these words embarrass you?

    Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
  2. Back To the USAF Museum

    Yeah, they're great for STILL objects. For moving ones, I'm not sold. Getting a picture of my daughter for the 1/2 second she's still before she starts moving again is literally impossible with the delay between pressing the button and the stupid picture actually being taken. I guess you need a pricey digital camera to eliminate that delay and get what film cameras always had?
  3. Well, this certainly had a long gestation, but it has finally seen the light of day! I'll be grabbing this when I return to my domicile in another hundred minutes or so.
  4. Don't fence me in

    They still haven't stopped the ones coming over to FL by boats and rafts, are they going to build a fence there too? Should it be on the beach or out in the water? I'm opposed to spending billions to mitigate a problem by a few percent. If the "cure" costs more than the problem, it's not a cure! The obvious solution is to lower the wages in those areas to below Mexican standards so that there's no appeal.
  5. Do any of these words embarrass you?

    Did anyone vote for Kevin Phillips Bong in the last UK election? He was in the Slightly Silly Party.
  6. f-4 phantom II air intake

    Yes, otherwise it's just a ramjet.
  7. Back To the USAF Museum

    Often they will put prototypes or very early production, time-expired models in museums that are no longer fit for service.
  8. f-4 phantom II air intake

    That's the unique part of a scramjet...it can use supersonic air.
  9. Don't fence me in

    What's the point when they just build tunnels?
  10. I was going to say, there are 2000 more files in the 2nd list, so something was up!
  11. Odd, I wouldn't think there'd be anything to see if the power was off...or was it on for some reason?
  12. Sean Connery charged with money laundering

    I'm not sure if it's the ponytail or handlebar mustache that really sells that look.
  13. When the dust settles

    When SW came out, there was no home video or cable. Other than theatrical releases you had to wait for years for it to be on TV. By the time of the 3rd film, though, both home video and cable existed, albeit in only limited scope. I seem to recall seeing SW on cable shortly after the 3rd film's release, even though both it and the 2nd one were rereleased prior to the 3rd film's debut. I clearly remember it took 4 years for the 3rd film to come out on video (don't know why I remember it was 1987, I just do). I think by the end of the 80s video releases were under a year. Now they can come out on DVD while still in limited play in a couple of venues.
  14. The real John McClane

    Why do they use such fake sound? That was filmed in the UK, and sirens do NOT sound like that in the UK...unfortunately. Instead they have that dying donkey sound...
  15. 9th of May Moscow air parade shots

    Hey, they've got the biggest bomber in the world, isn't that enough?
  16. 70 years ago: Here they come !

    Well, except for the blacks, Jews, mentally ill...
  17. Butcher of Mumbai gets death sentence

    What good is being "better" than them if they win? Besides, feeling superior to others and thereby justifying heinous actions is the root of the problem in the first place...
  18. When the dust settles

    The best gauge for a film is attendance, not money, and yes I think Avatar was #26 on that list last I looked? GWTW will always be #1 for several reasons. The biggest is, of course, it came out when there was no TV. EVERYONE went to the movies back then, some weekly, as that's where the news reels were as well. Also, if you liked a film and wanted to see it again you HAD to see it in the theater on a re-release as there was no TV to see it on! The media scene has permanently altered, and while someday a film might make more money than Avatar, no one will beat those old attendance records.
  19. None of these were undetectable by earth-bound telescopes. There are a few ways to determine a star's size and mass (the 2 are not always linked). Some of the biggest, closest ones actually appear as a small dot vs a pinpoint.
  20. Fubar512, your malware is cheap...

    I think it safe to say the guy has no life, and probably no job either...unless he's flipping burgers at Mooby's.
  21. Air power in 'Nam

    I think the SA-16 and -18 are considered very good MANPADs now from the eastern bloc. How they fare compared to Stingers I haven't heard.
  22. 9th of May Moscow air parade shots

    I always think it odd to see MiG-29's with underwing fuel tanks. Did they really hook up smoke generators to Su-25s and 39s (looks like a mixed formation)?
  23. NATO Award for 'Courageous Restraint'

    I fail to kill dozens of people daily that really irritate me. Where's my medal?
  24. Air power in 'Nam

    I don't think the Stinger existed back then. The SA-7 might have been the first to be widely used, but I'm not sure if it was THE first.
  25. Butcher of Mumbai gets death sentence

    I say they combine both possible verdicts...life imprisonment while hanging from the neck until death. His life could last several days!
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