Iflyme 0 #1 March 30, 2001 Benmjamin Franklin wanted so save candle wax, so he came up with the idea of "daylight savings time". Little did he know that it would enable me to skydive after work on Wednesdays and Fridays... thanks, Ben!!! So don't forget to set you clocks ahead one hour saturday night...Frank Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 0 #2 March 30, 2001 QuoteLittle did he know that it would enable me to skydive after work on Wednesdays and Fridays... thanks, Ben!!! So don't forget to set you clocks ahead one hour saturday night...Isn't DST cool!Craig Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #3 March 30, 2001 Ben Franklin was an amazing guy. I need to read a good bio of him one of these days.Drunk & horny little bugger too from what I've read. ------------Blue Skies!Zennie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HopnPop 0 #4 March 30, 2001 Quote Drunk & horny little bugger too from what I've read. Aren’t we all? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkySlut 0 #5 March 30, 2001 yeah, talk about the pot calling the kettle black..."I'll jump anything!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Divadiver 0 #6 March 30, 2001 HopnPop, Zennie:Wait, I think maybe you're thinking about good old Thomas Jefferson!! Ah hell, they all hung out together!Divadiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #7 March 30, 2001 hey you all your missing it! move over here to europe. here in germany we started daylight savings time last week. that's a whole week of more daylight!!!!!! to bad it's been rainy and clouded over...oh well...<> Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #8 March 30, 2001 Yeah, we saw this strange thing in the sky over London today, I think it's called the *sun* or something... Man, you guys shoulda seen it - I hope we get to see it again, one day, maybe...*sigh*/s[drop till you party!] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #9 March 31, 2001 Me and the sun are close personal friends but sometimes he is an asshole and burns me. :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtsucks 0 #10 March 31, 2001 Yes, I remember this "sun" you speak of. You say you actually saw it? That is amazing. I have heard the legends, but never actually believed it was true. I shall dance the dance of the Sun God and pray that he answers my humble calling. (ColdDuck, do I really have to do it naked, it’s like 10 degrees out! Aw man!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lazerq3 0 #11 March 31, 2001 Sorry guys I've been hogging the sun allll week out here in UUUUUUtah!!!!! Send me a dollar and I'll rent it out to you!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #12 April 1, 2001 Skreamer, 470 posts! Holy shit!!! You must have a laptop with cellular connection! Sounds like your weather is very similar to the weather in the Pacific Northwest-rain! The winter was fine, lots of dry, cold days. Now that spring is here it's raining every weekend :( You know what they call it after two days of rain out here? Monday! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy 0 #13 April 1, 2001 I'm just north of you MC280B, in a city of the same name. It it only rains 2 times a week here: once three days in a row and then once four days in a row. Growing Gills in Vancouver,NewGuy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iflyme 0 #14 April 1, 2001 Holy parachute, batman! Another skydiver in BC!!! I'm over on the Island! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkF 0 #15 April 1, 2001 QuoteYeah, we saw this strange thing in the sky over London today, I think it's called the *sun* or something... Man, you guys shoulda seen it - I hope we get to see it again, one day, maybe...*sigh*Was that the 30th this year ??? Damn, I've missed it. Oh well there's always 2005. You wouldn't happen to know about when it'll (the sun) appear then would you ??? A March / April date or a bit later ...???OorooMark F...Who got 'is 'ead 'orribly burnt yesterday...:-( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #16 April 1, 2001 Hi there,Just so all us Brits (& visitors) ARE clear on this... It was the Sun that Skreamer saw over London.there is (apparently) some scientific opinion that the Sun is in fact "up there" every day & this is what causes the sky to go a lighter shade of gray during daytime!Anyway, after a long weekend (actually an interminably lonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg weekend) of the other sort of Relative Work, Sunday was saved by an early escape from the bosom (clutches?) of my loving mother and an unusually light gray sky which looked on the point of turning blue!!!!!!!So... Down to the nearest DZ (must have "left" my gear in the back of the car but "much to my surprise" there it was). Manifested & got the kit-up call which included a little surprise "Mike will JM this lift!!!!!" Arrrgh!!! A DZ I hadn't jumped at in 18 months... Surrounded by farmland... In the middle of the Foot & Mouth crisis... With the entire Farmer McNasty Clan trading in their shotguns for 20mm Flak cannon to protect them from the "Four Skydivers of The Apocalypse" landing near to their Beasts"... "The Spot is over there (vague arm waves), but the last (experienced) lift landed out in that farm"!.. "This lift's going to 12,000ft"! "By the way, the pilot's just started flying parachute lifts"... "Don't worry... The rest of the lift are all 'about' "A" Licence".So... There I was at the back of a C-206 WITH NO FECKIN' DOOR burning up to 12'. At this point would anyone care to hazard a guess at the one piece of kit I didn't have with me? Yep, you got it, my super-duper Gore & Thinsulate warm suit! Still I had my RW suit on over a 't' so everything was fine... Fine in a "Scott of the Feckin' Antartic" sort of way.Oh... Did I mention "the cloud" yet? The single sodding 1 square mile cloud that lurks under the run in & covers every bloody landmark around the DZ!So... first run in is about half a mile out so 'round again and good the second time So guys... I'd just like to say "thankx" for NOT making me look an utter prat!Mike D10270.Edited by miked10270 on 4/1/01 03:57 PM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 3 #17 April 1, 2001 Hey MikeD --Great story....LMAO at the "Airborne Harbingers of Death" observation ! (GET OUT OF MY AIRSPACE -- BUT FIRST, WIPE YOUR FEET !!)And you'll always be an "utter prat" in my eyes..........just let me know what "prat" means, okay ?The PLF Governess Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #18 April 1, 2001 Hi "A" King,PRAT: slang n. used abusively; a fool, an ineffectual person.EG: He doesn't know what a prat is... What a Prat!Mike D10270. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
