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Moderator fight! Oh yeah tickets $5 per.

Now now you shouldn't go believing everything you read in movies.

Hmmm everyone appears to be in italics for me. Thats very interesting.... And just because Mission says theres no topic doesn't mean there isn't. He just chooses to believe theres none. There is a spoon.

You're not at all off topic, you're kindly providing me with posts to play with. Color me appreciative. (Its a lightish blueish green color I believe.)

Sing for me my pretty's!

Muwahaha NEVER!

Exactly. I am now doing the evil cackle with my fingers tips gently pressed together.

This is just a topic for me to play with the controls with. No need to pay any attention at all.

Have I also forgotten to recommend Last Life in the Universe? It gets royally panned in many circles, but I enjoy it quite a bit. Its sweet and odd in the way that, so far that I've found, only Japanese films can be.

I hope that's the Kitano version of Zatoichi. Did I recommend that to you? I should have if I didn't.

Well there is a time and a place for dangling ones fenders.

What does the inscription mean/stand for?

I had a second id on this forum. Mostly because there were somethings I wanted to say that I didn't feel should be said from a moderator. It was great fun until another user decided I was his ex-wife! So that id has been dormant for quite some time.

"They'll have their cake and lie in it too!" There's many another ship that Jack and Stephen sail in aside from the Surprise. I too would love to see them all as movies.

And then it is no longer a surface.

You've been catching catfish by hand? I spent yesterday and most of today doing deep dives in a quarry. I now have a very real idea of what "mind numbingly cold" really is. And know that mask failures at seventy feet suck.

I believe the parlance would be "practicing upon the surgeon."

I'm not sure it was about a joke. I believe at the time the CAF had just acquired a C model Mustang flown by the Tuskegee Airmen and it was a bit hard to get funding to rebuild it and develop an educational program around the Airmen and the plane while calling themselves the Confederate Air Force. The airport is Midland, TX. Tailwheel airplanes (nearly all warbirds) take much more skill and proficiency to fly than trikes (nearly all modern airplanes). That and the extra power and maneuverability are what make the difference.

I actually got my complex/high performance rating in AT6. Really they fly just like everything else. The landing gear is a bit narrow so they can be squirrely on the ground and it is more maneuverable than common civilian only planes. Basically it is a big, heavy under powered fully aerobatic bird. And of course it sounds better than just about anything with that big round engine. I've never flown a Corsair, but if I had a list it would be on there. In the warbird community time in a T6 is what opens the doors to everything else, so I'm just building time.

ha yes, and that helmet isn't exactly period either. But I'm all for safety and frankly no one on the ground can see the necklace. We weren't THAT low. The plane I was in (nav. /gunner on this run) is a fairly stock end of the war already. All five planes were either AT6 Texans or SNJ's, which are just the army and navy versions of the same plane.

A few weeks back I was involved with a group of pilots who were hired up to provide air support for a WWII reenactment day. Good thing too since the Allies were really out numbered!

How about a nice article and some pictures about the pub in return for all this free advertising you're being allowed to do here? It's not just word of mouth when it takes up bandwidth.

I like Bilgemunky's description of there really being three types, in both musical and garbical reenactors. I view this as something like partial credit on a test. Not meaning to imply that any one fails of course. The Capt. brings up some interesting points what with "open to interpretation" sheet music or none altogether. I suspect that music really is a much more personal thing and was much more flexible than clothing even. After all this same vagueness is inherent in Baroque music of the times as well. No chamber group , though playing on period correct instruments, would play a piece the same as another. Each player brings his or her own history and current desires to the piece each time they play it. Music isn't like clothes, which are made once instead it is made anew each time it is played. And yet an educated listener would still know a Baroque piece when its played. I suppose what I'm saying is don't feel that adding your own spin suddenly makes something incorrect.

This is one thing (among many of course) that I'll never understand. Why is this worth getting upset about? You're attempting to do something you know there are prerequisites for, you're just being asked to prove you've met them. Not by any onerous test or giant application, but by taking a little plastic card out of your wallet, presumably just the wallet you've already got out to give the cashier some money. It isn't a personal offense, they aren't asking you to stand on your head or run a mile. It's thirty seconds. Of course if you want to argue if there should be this prerequisite for at all that's another thing altogether.

Thank you for the birthday wishes everyone! It is a fascinating and interesting time to be me. And while I'm not entirely sure what Mission is alluding to (I push back you know), I'll certainly accept any cubist artwork coming my way.