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Ok, Lt. Bromhead.

::secretly happy everyone missed his birthday:: <---hates all the rigamarole associated with getting older

Flan? mmmm....flan......

You mean back to the Moon, don't you Carst?

Ah, but there was a time, back in the 80s when the traditional paper and dice RPGs were blamed for killing sprees. "Dungeon's & Dragons made me do it." ::sits back in his rocking chair, with a blanket wrapped around his legs::

And a sidekick...NARF! Everyone sing along now! They're Pinky and The Brain Yes, Pinky and The Brain One is a genius The other's insane. They're laboratory mice Their genes have been spliced They're dinky They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain Brain. Before each night is done Their plan will be unfurled By the dawning of the sun They'll take over the world. They're Pinky and The Brain Yes, Pinky and The Brain Their twilight campaign Is easy to explain. To prove their mousey worth They'll overthrow the Earth They're dinky They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain Narf!

Heh, I'll probably wind up being a GM before he graduates... Oooh, scary thought... :) :) :P

Ah, but the new jalapeno cheese spread negates the gum-up factor of the cheese. Clears the sinuses out really nicely, too. And they finally got rid of that nasty, old sponge-textured and consistency, green omelet with ham. No one I ever knew ate that stuff.

Except that money is going to Haliburton (thence to the VP), which is the single-source contractor in Iraq, and probably Afghanistan; and new, totally obsolete Cold War-era weapons systems like the F-22 Raptor. Incidently, Haliburton charges the DoD US$100 per soldier per day for meals. And the war's been going for how long? Do the math, kids. Gagh would be better than what we got at the DFAC where I was. Heck, even an MRE or ancient C-Rations would have been better.

True, Jack Bauer wouldn't saddle us with the moron, but people like the Christian Coalition, ultra-conservatives, and a dumbing down electorate did. Oh yes, and a conservative Supreme Court.

Yeah, especially since Nemesis tanked, invalidating the rule of thumb that while the odd-numbered ST movies are box office lightweights, the even-numbered movies are moderately to very successful. ::scratches head, pondering that one::

Regardless, Images, the Colonies had decided the throw off the shackles of the seemingly oppressive Hannoverian Crown 230 years ago, so we don't celebrate the Crown's birthday. And now we have our very own "Mad King George". It's a damn shame that we failed to study history, and it repeated itself again. I do have to ask our British cousins this though: Is the Queen sane?

Especially with Shatner's hair piece

From STII: "We played it once your way Khan. Are you game for a rematch? I'm laughing at your superior intellect." ADM Kirk, heading for the Mutara Nebula. "From Hell's Heart, I stab at thee...For Hate's sake, I spit my last breath...at thee." Khan, just before detonation of the Genesis Device. From STVI: "If I were human, I would tell them to...go to Hell. If I were human."

<---- guilty as charged

12 Step Program for the Military 1. I am in the military , I have a problem. This is the first step to recovery... 2. Speech: Time should never begin with a zero or end in a hundred, it is not 0530or 1400 it is 5:30 in the morning (AKA God-awful early). Words like deck, rack, and "PT" will get you weird looks; floor, bed, workout, get used to it. "@*%$" cannot be used to -replace whatever word you can't think of right now, try "um". Grunting is not talking. It's a phone, not a radio, conversations on a phone do not end in "out" People will not know what you are talking about if you tell them you are coming from Camp Lejeune with the MWSS platoon or that you spent a deployment in the OCAC 3. Style: Do not put creases in your jeans. Do not put creases on the front of your dress shirts. A horseshoe cut looks dumb, not motivating. A high and tight looks really dumb as well. So does a low reg, but not as bad. A hat indoors does not make you a bad person, it makes you like the rest of the world. you do not have to wear a belt ALL the time. 4. Women: Air Force girls are easy, very easy, not all women are this easy and will probably punch you in the nuts if you treat them like Air Force girls. Being divorced twice by the time you are 23 is not normal, neither are 6 month marriages, even if it is your first. Marrying a girl so that you can move out of the barracks does not make "financial sense", it makes you a retard. 5. Personal accomplishments: In the real world, being able to do pushups will not make you good at your job. Most people will be slightly disturbed by you if you tell them about people you have killed or seen die. How much pain you can take is not a personal accomplishment. The time you got really drunk and passed the sobriety test anyway is also not a personal accomplishment. 6. Drinking: In the real world, being drunk before 5pm will get you an intervention, not a "good for you" That time you drank a 5th of Jaeger and pissed in your closet is not a conversation starter. That time you went to the combat life saver school and practiced giving vodka iv's will also not be a good conversation starter 6. Bodily functions: Farting on your co-workers and then giggling while you run away may be viewed as "unprofessional". The size of the dump you took yesterday will not be funny no matter how big it was, how much it burned, or how much it smelled. You can't make fun of someone for being sick, no matter how funny it is VD will also not be funny 7. The human body: Most people will not want to hear about your balls. Odd as that may seem, it's true. 8. Spending habits: One day, you will have to pay bills Buying a $30, 000 car on a $16, 000 a year salary is a really bad idea. Spending money on video games instead of on diapers makes you a fool. One day you will need health insurance 9. Interacting with civilians (AKA YOU): Making fun of your neighbor to his face for being fat will not be normal. 10. Real jobs: They really can fire you. On the flip side you really can quit. Screaming at the people that work for you will not be normal, remember they really can quit too. Taking naps at work will not be acceptable. Remember 9-5 not 0530 to 1800 11. The Law: Non-judicial punishment does not exist and will not save you from prison. Your workplace unlike your command can't save you and probably won't, in fact most likely you will fired about 5 minutes after they find out you've been arrested Even McDonalds does background checks, and "conviction" isn't going to help you get the job Fighting is not a normal thing and will get you really arrested, not yelled at Monday morning before they ask you if you won. 12. General knowledge: You can in fact really say what you think about the President in public. Pain is not weakness leaving the body, it's just pain. They won't wear anything shiny that tells you they are more important then you are, be polite. Read the contracts before you sign them, remember what happened the first time.

First off, I've got ten years of both active duty and reserve time, with the Air Force and Army Guard, and currently transferring to the Air Nat'l Guard. My first base, was Keflavik Naval Air Station, when I was an active duty Air Force Security Policeman, followed by 400 days in Grand Forks AFB, guarding Minuteman III ICBMs; I've recently completed an 18 month federal mobilization with the 42d Infantry Division in Iraq, smack dab in the Sunni Triangle, and was retained, without contract, for 12 months, because of Stop-Loss. So yes, I know about the Army, I know about the Air Force, I know about the Navy and Marine Corps, and I know all about seeing IEDs detonated and people getting maimed, injured, and killed in Dubya's War. I personally know several people in my battalion who were injured, and one who was killed. Secondly, it was posted as humourous content, because even when I was active duty, we found stupid @#&% like this funny, otherwise we'd go crackers. If you found it offensive, since this is a public board, I'd say just deal with it, and any comments should be addressed outside of this public forum.

Since it's been a week, and Eagle hasn't posted anything, I hereby move STSF Amnor into the position of winner. Sorry, Brain. NARF!

Maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase it, Dac...

Heh, could be worse, VR. When I go camping, I usually start the day out with a Rolling Rock. Mind you, that's before the first cup of coffee. And proceed to finish the night with a couple of shots of Jaegermeister. We'll usually go through a couple of cases of beer over a weekend. :lol:

I regret that I spent most of last year in Iraq, so I missed most of these. Although, I did see Batman Begins while on the flight back to the Sandbox from Holland (Complete with Dutch subtitles!) Definitely threw the original orgins story as portrayed in the first post-Adam West Batman movie in the trash. Also saw the remake of War of the Worlds. While technically accurate to the original work, other than starting out in New Jersey and ending in Boston, it was missing a lot of the "coolness" and human drama that even the original, 1954 version has. When it comes to remakes, I generally say "Friends don't let friends watch remakes. Unless it's the new Battlestar or Area 88 (anime)."

Isn't that sort of in the same vein as "Youth is wasted on the young."?

Honestly, I would go, but I'm burning my vacation time somewhere more...tropical than Orlando. And a heck of a lot sooner.

::thread looks back at Corizon:: I'm not...dead yet.

Geez. They're all good. But...now for the winners. 2d Runner up is Kansas for the shameless self promotion... 1st Runner up is Amnor for poking fun at both the local cops and most likely the FAA. But, the winner is Eagle, for the shameless plug about Shoreleave West.