"This Tape Will Self Destruct in 5 Seconds . . ."

[NickDG 23]

Peter Graves dead at 83.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/actor-peter-graves-found-dead-at-his-home-in-pacific-palisades.html

NickD

[Belgian_Draft 0]

One of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid was Mission:Impossible.

Rest in peace.

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

[1969912 0]

RIP. Great actor and great TV show.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[ryoder 1,400]

Sadly, it's over for Capt Oveur.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[SansSuit 1]

And it never was the tape that destructed. The smoke always emanated from the machine beneath the tape.

Peace,
-Dawson.
http://www.SansSuit.com
The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

[airtwardo 6]

Marshal Dillon's brother bought the farm?!



R I P MrPhelps.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[longtall 0]

'The secretary will disavow any knowlege of his actions"

" 90 right, five miles then cut."---Pukin Buzzards

[kkeenan 13]

What's the vector, Victor ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRXJEE3Nz8

[muff528 3]

Anyone old enough may remember this:

http://brokenwheelranch.com/

Never missed it on Saturday mornings.

[skyrider 0]

RIP....Thanks for all the years of entertainment!

[MikeJD 0]

Be nice to think his 'death' was an elaborate hoax to bring about to bring about the overthrow of some foreign despot or something.
Sadly I guess it's just a reminder that some missions - like getting out of this thing alive - remain impossible.

Watching reruns of the old show still brings back the excitement of seeing it as a kid - although I wonder whether without that theme tune it would have endured so well. I did love him in Airplane! as well, but I can't remember much else that he did. He did have a cameo in one of the Tom Cruise movies, didn't he?

[skyrider 0]

Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmHOteBVqKI

[skyjumpenfool 2]

".... and stop calling me Shirley!"

Birdshit & Fools Productions

"Son, only two things fall from the sky."

[muff528 3]

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Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmHOteBVqKI

I always thought that was funny (and probably intentional)........"Joey" was the kid's name on "Fury", too.

[freefallfreak 0]

Damn. I used my stepfather's last name from about the age of 5 up till I was about 40. And yep, you guessed it...Phelps...My first name is Jim and I heard the line "Good morning, Mr. Phelps" at least once a day for years till I went back to my original name.

TripleF

"Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up."

[NickDG 23]

>>Anyone old enough may remember this:
I watched "Fury" every Saturday morning. It was the warm up to Wonderama. The I'd go out and play baseball, build a fort in the woods, then help old man Wilson burn his leaves, and after that run our skate scooters down Suicide Hill until it got dark. Then I'd go home for dinner and settle in to watch an episode of Chiller Theater . . . !

Being a kid in the sixties was the bomb!

NickD

[skyrider 0]

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>>Anyone old enough may remember this:
I watched "Fury" every Saturday morning. It was the warm up to Wonderama. The I'd go out and play baseball, build a fort in the woods, then help old man Wilson burn his leaves, and after that run our skate scooters down Suicide Hill until it got dark. Then I'd go home for dinner and settle in to watch an episode of Chiller Theater . . . !

Being a kid in the sixties was the bomb!

NickD

Your fuckin OLD dude...

OK about 5 years older than me!

[NickDG 23]

Know what the only thing better than being a kid in the sixties is?

Being an old man in the naughts . . .

NickD

[skyrider 0]

No shit, still being here to talk about it, and remember when all the fun happened "Outside"!

My first parachute jump, from the third floor window of the house next door..with a sheet, tied into a parachute, slowed me down enough, I only sprain an ankle, (and no we did not go to a "Doctor" over that )

Ya simply delt with it!

[NickDG 23]

Really, a week "in the life" back then would have earned us an Amber Alert today . . .

NickD

[muff528 3]

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No shit, still being here to talk about it, and remember when all the fun happened "Outside"!

My first parachute jump, from the third floor window of the house next door..with a sheet, tied into a parachute, slowed me down enough, I only sprain an ankle, (and no we did not go to a "Doctor" over that )

Ya simply delt with it!

I was in 3rd grade jumping a bicycle over a ramp made of 2 boards and a couple of rocks. Just after my mother told me not to do that again I made one last run and the bike went between the two boards and hit the rocks. The bike did an endo and I busted 3 teeth on the handlebars or the ground or something. Mom busted my ass all the way to the dentist.

[ryoder 1,400]

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and after that run our skate scooters down Suicide Hill until it got dark.

Lemme guess;
At the end of the hill, it dumped you into a freeway?
There was a black kid in in your group?
I recall Bill Cosby describing something like that in one of his comedy albums.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[NickDG 23]

I smoked pot with Cosby once (Bill, not Bing) it was at a USO show in the early 70's. I was backstage with him (before he was Dr. Huckstable) taking photographs for the Stars & Stripes Newspaper and he had me frigging rolling on the floor . . .

NickD

[airtwardo 6]

Smokin' rope with The Coz!



Now THAT'S gettin' 'The Nod'!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~