They thought this one through…
And ‘another’ reason NOT to put Christmas lights in a palm tree…
From a shipmate in Hawaii, taken last night on his street…
“FINE” is the word women use at the end of any argument when they feel they are right but can’t stand to hear you argue any longer. It means that you should shut up. (NEVER use “fine” to describe how she looks. This will cause you to have one of those arguments.)
“FIVE MINUTES” is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your football game is going to last before you take out the trash, so women feel that it’s an even trade.
“NOTHING” means something and you should be on your toes. “NOTHING” is usually used to describe the feeling a woman has of wanting to turn you inside out, upside down, and backwards. “NOTHING” usually signifies an argument that will last “FIVE MINUTES” and end with the word “FINE“.
“GO AHEAD” (with raised eyebrows) is NOT permission; it’s a dare! If you mistake it for permission, the result will be the woman will get upset over “NOTHING” and you’ll have a “FIVE MINUTE” discussion that will end with the word “FINE“.
“GO AHEAD” (normal eyebrows) is NOT permission either. It means “I give up” or “DO WHAT YOU WANT BECAUSE I DON’T CARE“. You will get a raised eyebrow “GO AHEAD” in just a few minutes, followed by “NOTHING” and “FINE” and she will talk to you in about “FIVE MINUTES” when she cools off.
“LOUD SIGH” is not actually a word, but is still often a verbal statement. Very frequently misunderstood by men. A “LOUD SIGH” means she thinks you are a complete idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over “NOTHING!”
“SOFT SIGH” again is not a word, but a verbal statement. “SOFT SIGHS” are one of the few things that some men actually understand. It means she is momentarily content. Your best bet is to not move or breathe in the hope that the moment will last a bit longer.
“OH” followed by any statement – is trouble. Example: “Oh, let me get that” or “Oh, I talked to him about what you were doing last night”. If she says “OH” before a statement, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. She will tell you that she is “FINE” when she is done tossing your clothes out the window, but do not expect her to talk to you for at least two days. (“OH” as the lead to a sentence usually signifies that you are caught in a lie). Do not try to lie more to get out of it, or you will get a raised eyebrow “GO AHEAD” sometimes followed by acts so unspeakable that I can’t bring myself to write about them.
“THAT’S OKAY” is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can say to a man. “THAT’S OKAY” means that she wants to think long and hard before deciding what the penalty will be for whatever you have done. “THAT’S OKAY” is often used with the word “FINE” and in conjunction with a raised eyebrow “GO AHEAD“. Once she has had time to plan it out, you are in for some mighty big trouble.
“PLEASE DO” is not a statement, it is an offer. The woman is giving you the chance to come up with an excuse for what you have done. In other words, a chance to get yourself into even more trouble. If you handle this correctly, you shouldn’t get a “THAT’S OKAY“.
“THANKS” is the woman is thanking you. Don’t faint and don’t look for hidden meaning. Just say “you’re welcome”.
“THANKS A LOT” is dramatically different from “THANKS“. A woman will say “THANKS A LOT” when she is really ticked off at you. It is usually followed by the “LOUD SIGH“. This signifies that you have hurt her in some callous way. Be careful not to ask what is wrong after the “LOUD SIGH” as she will only tell you “NOTHING“.
Yeah, good luck with that… 🙂
Being half deaf, I just gave up YEARS ago…
Only in America can a REAL WW-II Russian rifle made in Russia 70+ years ago, cost less than the imitation airsoft version made in China today.
Real one: $129
Fake (Airsoft): $169 ON SALE yet.
With the number of airline disasters lately, the FAA now sends an inspector to the North Pole to check out Santa Claus’s sleigh before allowing him to fly on Christmas eve.
The inspector arrives and checks the reindeer and they look good, he checks the harness and it looks okay, he checks the sleigh and it is also okay. Then he says, “Santa, lets take it up for a check ride and if everything looks good I’ll certify you to fly.”
Santa hitches the reindeer up and taxis onto the runway and just as he’s starting his takeoff roll he looks over and notices the inspector has a pump shotgun on his lap. “Hey! What’s the shotgun for!?” Santa yells.
The inspector says, “Well, Santa, I’m really not supposed to tell you this, but you’re gonna loose an engine on takeoff.”
This ‘program’ was on Spike TV, so probably not a lot of folks saw it…
USS GETTYSBURG was sent TAD to the standing anti-piracy patrol last year for a few months of their deployment. Here is the last clip about 11 minutes about them taking down some pirates.
HIGH stress, strange things encountered, and teamwork are the key…
Doing good work a LONG way from home and hearth, with very little recognition (although these folks actually DID get some recognition). Just another day in the lives of the sailors in the US Navy.
And you can bet the administration could care less, and the CO probably got called on the carpet for exceeding best speed for fuel consumption…
And we’re looking at more cuts thanks to sequestration that will probably hit in Jan when the budget (spit) doesn’t get signed and the CRs continue…
In other WESTPAC news, it now appears this administration has ‘decided’ to provisionally accept the Chinese ADIZ that covered the Senkakus, whose possession by Japan is disputed by China.
Top Obama administration and Pentagon officials signaled a willingness to temporarily accept China’s new, controversial air defense identification zone on Wednesday. Those officials expressed disapproval for the way in which the Asian power has flexed its muscles, and cautioned China not to implement the zone. But they also carved out wiggle room in which the United States and China ultimately could find common ground on the issue, indicating that they may be willing to live with the zone for now —
Full article HERE.
When you look at China’s stated goal, establishing an ADIZ over the ENTIRE East China Sea and Yellow Sea, this is a BAD mistake on the US’s part… And honestly I find it unbelievable that Gen Dempsey would even agree temporarily to this… But he’s drunk the administration’s kool aid…
Article HERE on China’s plan.
Mark my words, somebody or bodies are going to be shot down over this… Anybody remember KAL 007?
And it will have a MAJOR impact on the US military’s ability to operate in that region…
If this administration ties the military’s hands much more, we might was well concede the entire western Pacific to China and just pull all our folks back to Hawaii…
You confront somebody about their self-licking ice cream cone?
Well, first you get told you have NO idea how complicated the problem they are solving is…
When you point out to them that they are NOT solving the problem they just told you, it goes downhill from there…
To the point that they admitted nothing, denied everything (they’d said earlier), and made counter accusations about my ‘desire’ to have them fail…
As if they weren’t already going to do that…
Sigh…
In other news, if THIS is true…
Men and women’s brains are connected in different ways
Then there should be no issue with transgender or anything else…
Scan em, assign em, and go on down the road…
But since ‘this’ doesn’t fit the current agenda, I’m sure this will be discounted, as usual.
Standing by for the incoming flames… 🙂
A relief is onstation…
As the P-3 ‘sunsets’ as the platform of choice for ASW in the Navy, there’s a new player in town…
The first two P-8 Poseidon aircraft are onstation in Kadena Okinawa as of yesterday…
Two of the Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft have arrived at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Navy officials in Japan said Monday.
The P-8’s long-planned arrival in the western Pacific comes about a week after China unilaterally declared a broad swath of the East China Sea’s air space as its national air defense identification zone and demanded that military aircraft identify themselves and file flight plans with the Chinese government.
Read the whole Stars and Stripes article HERE.
Much like the P-3’s first ‘operational’ flights in 1962 against the Cuban Missile Blockade, the P-8 will have to hit the ground running…
Us old farts may grumble, but it IS time for a new platform. The P-3s are tired, maintenance costs are through the roof, and spares few and far between. When the final birds are retired, they will be 60 years old. Not quite in the same class as the BUFF or T-38, but getting up there for a military aircraft, especially one that has operated over salt water for its entire life span (and exceeded it by 20 years already)…
The ‘kids’ today have spent a year plus transitioning to the P-8, jumped through all the hoops, passed all the checks, and they will make us proud.
Are you as smart as the average sixty year old???
01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day, and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind? ________________.
02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The ____ ___________ Show.
03. ‘Get your kicks, __ _________ _______.’
04. ‘The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.’
05. ‘In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.’
06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick, that was lowered as low, as we could go in a dance called the ‘_____________.’
07. Nestle’s makes the very best . .. . . _______________.’
08. Satchmo was America ‘s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.
09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.
10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and ‘________ ________… ‘
11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back,and the trunk in the front, was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________.
13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to ___________________.
14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __________ ______________.
16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?
17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It’s _____ ______ _____!
18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ Knows!
19. There was a song that came out in the 60’s that was “a graveyard smash”. Its name was the ______ ______!
20. Alka Seltzer used a “boy with a tablet on his head” as its Logo/Representative. What was the boy’s name? ________
ANSWERS:
01.The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04.To protect the innocent.
05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hula Hoop
16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco
17. Howdy Doody Time
18. Shadow
19. Monster Mash
20. Speedy
h/t JP 🙂
Got the comeback from the editor, ass deep in corrections and other things to improve the story…
In lieu of a real post,
Baby picture!
Probably light posting and commenting the rest of the week… Sorry…
EDIT- It’s a fake… Dammit… Thanks to Ed and Eric for pointing it out.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp
Apparently the punks picked the WRONG person to try the knockout game on…
I missed this one, and apparently it hasn’t gotten much MSM coverage…
Police are still trying to piece together the events of Monday night after a woman was attacked and then fired shots into the crowd of teens that assulted her.
Beulah Montgomery, who just turned 60 yesterday, says she was walking home after purchasing lottery tickets when she says a group of teens, 7 of them, approached her. Montgomery initally thought they were going to attempt to steal her purse but says she was instead hit by one of the individuals as a second attempted to hit her. That’s when she grabbed her gun.
Full article HERE.
All I can say is good for her, and it’s a reminder to all of us…
Carry every day!!!