Net Humor…

A week’s worth…

SUNDAY

Groups of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland .. As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goat’s milk was used.

She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were grazing. ‘These’ she explained, ‘Are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce.’ She then asked, ‘What do you do in America with your old goats?’

A spry old gentleman answered, ‘They send us on bus tours!

MONDAY

The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex..

Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor.

The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter to be put on birth control and until then, talk to her and give her a box of condoms.

Later that evening, as her daughter was preparing for a date, the mother told her about the situation and handed her a box of condoms.

The girl burst out laughing and reached over to hug her mother, saying,

‘Oh Mom! You don’t have to worry about that! I’m dating Susan!’

TUESDAY

A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped to shake the preacher’s hand. He said, ‘Preacher, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!’

The preacher said, ‘Thank you sir, but I’d rather you didn’t use profanity.’

The man said, ‘I was so damned impressed with that sermon I put five thousand dollars in the offering plate!’

The preacher said, ‘No shit?’

WEDNESDAY

Brenda and Steve took their six-year-old son to the doctor.

With some hesitation, they explained that although their little angel appeared to be in good health, they were concerned about his rather small penis.

After examining the child, the doctor confidently declared, ‘Just feed him pancakes. That should solve the problem.’

The next morning when the boy arrived at breakfast, there was a large stack of warm pancakes in the middle of the table.

‘Gee, Mom,’ he exclaimed. ‘For me?’

‘Just take two,’ Brenda replied. ‘The rest are for your father.’

THURSDAY

One night, an 87-year-old woman came home from Bingo to find her 92-year-old husband in bed with another woman.. She became violent and ended up pushing him off the balcony of their 20th floor apartment, killing him instantly. Brought before the court, on the charge of murder, she was asked if she had anything to say in her own defense.

‘Your Honor,’ she began coolly,

‘I figured that at 92, if he could screw, he could fly.’

FRIDAY

A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa . ‘The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.

However, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?’

After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, ‘Wedding Cake.’

SATURDAY

Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old tall, tan and terrific “hoochie-mamma” who knocks everyone’s socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob’s arm and listens intently to his every word.

His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, ‘Bob, how’d you get the trophy girlfriend?’ Bob replies, ‘Girlfriend? She’s my wife!’ They are knocked over, but continue to ask. ‘So, how’d you persuade her to marry you?’

‘I lied about my age’, Bob replies. ‘What, did you tell her you were only 50?’

Bob smiles and says, ‘No, I told her I was 90.’

h/t JP

NOT as easy as it looks…

China has apparently killed at least two pilots trying to fly the J-15s off their new carrier…

The Liaoning- which is an ex-Kuznetsov class carrier, the Varyag (which was never completed in the Ukraine).

Since it’s an AP article, go HERE.

Back in the day I flew on the Kuznetsov when it first came out of the yards in 1985 and came down into the Med in 1986…

Link HERE.

Interestingly, the ONLY place the USSR built carriers was in the Mykolaiv, Ukraine yards…

Deja vu anyone???

Strange Sunrise…

This was the view out my window this morning…

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Storm clouds from the east due to the petering out hurricane…

All the surfer dudes were probably going, “Hey man, what’s this s**t?  Where’s my sun and blue skies?”

🙂

Hodads…

A San Diego (well actually Ocean Beach) institution, and a place that has always taken care of the military folks…

Got a chance to talk to Mr. Hardin’s grandson (who was working Saturday) and he said the van WILL ride again (well, maybe not this one, but one like it.  Too many years sitting this close to the ocean)… 🙂

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And nothing much has changed inside, just more/newer license plates!  The older ones have been moved up to make room!  And some of the best burgers/fries/rings one could want!!!IMG_1783

And after lunch, taking a walk (ate WAY too much), we ran across this-  1965 Bimmer completely restored!IMG_1786

OH yeah,  and the reason I was over there was to meet Larry, who came down for lunch! 🙂  This is a 1949 Desoto Woody, one of 600 built, and the owner’s nine year labor of love to restore (and still going)…IMG_1787

Talking to the owner, he told us he’d driven it back to Ft. Wayne, IN this summer towing a travel trailer!!! Not bad for a 65 year old 6 Cyl, 127 hp, fluid drive car!!!

IMG_1788Larry and I commiserated on our respective travel trials and tribulations, and life in general… Good times!!!  Kinda sorta… 🙂

As always it was too short, but truly enjoy seeing Larry and comparing notes!

Oh yeah, and he was carrying a FULL sized revolver concealed, but that’s his story to tell…

 

Hi ho, hi ho…

It’s off to fun work I go…

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There are REALLY days I wish I was back as a plain ol’ operator… sigh…

WWII Poster…

This one is actually pre-war by a year… And unusual in that it features a specific unit…

ship_drayton18It was done by Matt Murphey (no other info), in 1940 for the Navy and featured the USS Drayton, DD366.  She went on to serve with distinction in the Pacific in WWII earning eleven battle stars!  Her info is HERE.

Kilted to Kick Cancer…

I’m late… for a very important date…

September is our time to try to raise a few bucks for prostate and testicular cancer…

This year, Kilted to Kick Cancer is now officially a 501(c)3 so we’re asking that the donations go there.

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Even if you don’t donate, PLEASE get checked… This hits one in six males… Don’t be ‘that’ guy… A finger wave is a small price for keeping your ass (and the rest of you) alive…

I know I’m late to the game, but if you’d like to donate to my team go HERE, then select Team OldNFO

Down Memory Lane…

This one brings back many fond memories…

The iconic Dodge teams were Dick Landy and Ronnie Sox/Buddy Martin out of Greensboro, NC.

The irony?  Sox and Martin originally started out as a Chevy team with a 63 Z-11, then went to Ford, and finally to Dodge in 68.  Ronnie Sox was one of the best EVER to race the 4-speed cars…

Crank up the volume!!!

Mopar celebrates the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Gen II 426 Race HEMI this year. More than 45 years after the 1968 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda Mopar package cars contributed to building the brand’s reputation at the drag strip, Mopar still lives up to its heritage by continuing to add to the lineage of high performance quality products.
 
Remaining true to its roots, the brand is continuing its commitment to Sportsman racing with the development of the next generation Mopar Drag Pak. The 2015 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak test vehicle is the next step in the evolution of the modern day package car whose earlier incarnations include more than 150 V8 Challenger Drag Paks, an additional fifty V10 versions, as well as 426 Race HEMI® upgrade kits.  The Mopar Challenger Drag Pak is the only modern era package car to win the Stock Eliminator title at the U.S. Nationals and has also won Factory Shootout races.
 
The test vehicle is built on the 2015 Dodge Challenger platform and sports a white body, a vintage stripe package, and 426 HEMI identification. The drag pak test vehicle also includes the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT front and rear fascia trim, rear spoiler and a full roll cage fabricated to NHRA specifications.
 
Under the hood, Sportsman racers saw a 426 cubic-inch Race HEMI engine with an aluminum block, steel liners and custom engine calibration. The car boasts a Chrysler-based 727 automatic transmission, a race-style stick shifter with integral line lock, and an aluminum driveshaft. The vehicle also is equipped with a weigh box in the trunk and a trunk-mounted 12 volt battery.
 
The interior is currently based on the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT interior with the addition of Mopar gauges, driver and passenger lightweight racing seats, along with safety nets and five-point harnesses.

The Mopar drag pak test car also is equipped with 15-inch front and rear wheels, 28-inch diameter drag style front tires (4.5 inches wide) and 30-inch diameter rear tires (9-inches wide). It currently features precision performance front and rear brake rotors, calipers and master cylinder.
 
The test vehicle’s front suspension currently sports the 2015 Mopar K-Member and strut suspension geometry, front struts with adjustable compression and rebound. At the back of the car, racers will find a four-link rear suspension with Panhard bar, rear solid axle with 9-inch aluminum third member, rear shocks with adjustable compression and rebound, and an anti-sway bar.
 
All specifications on the 2015 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak test vehicle are still preliminary and being evaluated, as they are pending NHRA approval as well as feedback from the Sportsman themselves. The vehicle will be shown at the Mopar display in the manufacturer’s midway area on Friday and Saturday during the NHRA U.S. Nationals event weekend for racers and fans to view. Also on display will be an original 1968 HEMI Dodge Dart package car.

The sound of a big bore V-8 in full song IS a thing of beauty!!!

And I’m pretty sure both Chevrolet and Ford are doing the same things with the Mustang and Camaro platforms… 🙂

Let the car wars begin (Again)!!! 🙂

PSA…

Captain Tightpants has a post up with a link that is worth the read…

It’s talking to veterans that are conflicted about what is going on right now in Iraq…

Go HERE and read…

Random Travel/Stuff…

If I haven’t said it before, having a membership in an airline club is worth it’s weight in gold…

In this day and age of packed flights, delays, etc.  That club membership CAN pay off multiple times over…

In the SYD lounge yesterday morning however, we almost had a riot…

IMG_1779Cherry and white chocolate muffins…

These damn things were like crack!  People were standing there waiting, and you literally got one to a customer…

I was talking to my favorite moat dragon Anne and she said in her typical understated way, “Oh yes daarling, those are a mite tasty don’t you know.”

And then she got a big grin and said they were done by a little shop outside the field…

And there IS a reason for the seatbelt signs on airplanes as one young (and half drunk) lady found out yesterday coming back from SYD.  She dislocated her shoulder when she got ‘bounced’ and ended up landing on it and popping it out.  Three plus hours with only an aspirin and a sling didn’t feel too good and she was taken off in a wheelchair at LAX by paramedics, so maybe she’ll learn…

And the food was actually edible coming back.  Guess United is listening to the bitching! 🙂  (unlike Qantas, which served ‘chicken’ on the flight from PER, but there was nothing in there ‘I’ recognized as actually being FROM a chicken)…

And one quick story as a follow-up from the P-8 demo and the climb attitude in the previous post…

At NAS Moffett, we had U-2s there that belonged to Ames Research.  It was a competition between the pilots to see who could get to the highest altitude by the end of the runway…

Now two points of background, Moffett had 8000 runways, and the U-2s were always cleared unrestricted climb at roughly 85 degrees nose high…

If I remember correctly the ‘record’ was 20,000 by the end of the runway, thanks to a nice little headwind of about 25 kts…   Personally I always wanted to drive the IROC Camaro convertible and chase the U-2 down the runway on landing to catch the wingtip… 🙂