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Funnily enough, Kerry's been pretty vocal in his support of the 2nd amendment, crappy partisan politics not withstanding. There are pro gun Democrats, just like there are pro choice Republicans, though they make up the minority in the governing bodies of their respective parties. Not every Democrat is a gun hater you know. Pretty much every registered Democrat I know owns a gun, and that's represented in the Congress to degree. I also regard myself as a liberal who supports gun rights.

1. Yes. 2. One 3. All of them 4. It's her sister 5. He's still alive 6. Six 7. No, he's still alive 8. They are not playing each other 9. 70 10. White. He's at the North Pole 11. Two 12. Half dollar and a nickel 13. The match 14. Halfway 15. One hour 16. 9 17.None, because he's not Noah 18. Meat 19. 12 20. Bush And no I didn't cheat, and I didn't look at anyone else's answers first, because it wouldn't be fun otherwise. How did I do ?

Er.. OK.

You just say that because they all have Wings and you jump a pre-war Javelin. Jealousy will get you nowhere. Resistance is useless. You will be assimilated. And the fully articulated harness makes our asses look good too, I think he just WANTS to give it to us in the butt.. Pop is jealous.. neener neener neener You sure ? Javelin owners tend to be catchers, not pitchers.

And now in English ?

You just say that because they all have Wings and you jump a pre-war Javelin. Jealousy will get you nowhere. Resistance is useless. You will be assimilated. Also, free tie-dye this month.

I just spent some time trying to get to grips with superstring theory and the new possibility of a unifying theory for the weak, strong, EM and gravitational forces. If I try to understand this as well, I may forget how to drive. As you may have guessed, I'm a layman at this stuff, so I'm free to admit that lots of it is completely fucking impenetrable. I do believe that we are in a golden age of discovery in physics though, so it's kind of interesting to try to keep up.

And he's also being enshrined for the ages at ; http://www.spreadingsantorum.com And yes, he is an asshat.

My God! How would you exit at that speed? geez 200Kph=~100Kts. Not as bad as it sounds...Some of my Otter exits felt like that... Jen Whoops ! My bad, I meant 200 knots. Truly nasty.

Ha. If you think the King Air stalls easy, just get that puppy down to a normal jumprun speed and get the whole plane up the back end for an exit. That T tail will get him nice and current after that real fast. I've jumped a very similar plane in Poland. They solved that problem by running jumprun at 200 kph. Not nice at all. The one jump was enough for me out of that.

Ummm....not quite. Choppers were around in the 30's and 40's with the British bikes. They came after "Bobbers", where bits of the fender and such were bobbed off. Choppers differ in the fact that the frame geometry is changed in relation to the front forks. The frame is "chopped" and the front-end geometry changed.

Tell him to fuck off.

[reply THINGS I DO LIKE: 1.) Stinking up the whole Otter with gas and watching everyone's reaction. (IT WAS ME!!!) 2.) Hearing the "Pecker on a tree" song. You rock Luminous. 3.) Shouting the name "Eric Butts!!!" all day long. 4.) Playing the penis game with Bryan Moffet when he is here. (whoever yells the word penis the loudest wins) 5.) Rubbing Russell Webb's belly for good luck just before a jump...everybody should do that. 6.) Feeling the Flying Arab's rock hard ass. 7.) Sqweezing Troy Laird's nipples while he is editing and messing him up. (no I am not gay) . Are you sure ? If you're not, that's the gayest sounding list of likes I've ever heard from a straight guy.

Not going. I'm going to Hercules Boogie instead. The best kept secret of all the big boogies IMHO. Maybe next year.

Depends entirely on how seriously you want to get involved in the sport. If you want to do a few jumps now and again, it's not really a prblem. If you want to be there every day at the weekend, join a team, use vacation to go to boogies, then it's going to be a problem. Maybe not early on when everything is nice and fresh, but it will become a serious problem later. Basically, if your SO doesn't want to skydive and you do, you'll have to work out a balance that may fall far short of your goals if you want the relationship to survive. Even then, those compromises may turn to resentments on both sides after a while. Sorry to sound overly negative, but I've seen relationship after relationship go aground on this one. It can be done, but it's not that easy.

I had a question about that, do you log after each jump, which rig you jumped? I roughly know how many jumps I have on each of my rigs, but not exactly, and would like to hear a couple of tricks that you use.. I don't see you logging during the day so I was just wondering. Iwan See all those scraps paper up at manifest ? I grab one of those at the starrt of the day, and just write the type of jump, and a number for each rig. When I come down and throw the rig down, when I go to manifest the group again, I just add to the list. I don't need to add all the rest of the stuff, such as the plane, altitude etc, because it's all the same for each jump.

Yep. As of last weekend 7625. I note each one as I do it on a piece of paper, then at the end of the week, transfer that into my palm pilot as a total number of jumps and update the freefall time. Then I do a hard copy backup to a log book with all the other detail in it, such as DZ, plane, altitude and equipment. I do a lot of jumps and have a few rigs, so it's useful for me to keep up with the routine maintenance of my equipment. I don't use neptunes, pro tracks, or in fact any other altitude device other than a wrist altimeter. My pencil and scrap pf paper have yet to run out of battery or refuse to download yet.

It was the special mojo in that suit Brian borrowed that helped him to win. Rather like the Shorts of Power, they have much juice in them.

It was the special mojo in that suit Brian borrowed that helped him to win. Rather like the Shorts of Power, they have much juice in them.

I do.

I use them all time. Go to http://www.petsitters.com and check out one in your area. They usually cost between $18-20 a day.

True, but I'm not wearing one that doesn't do that either, or will allow me just enough leeway to kill those behind me and no more. There's not many restraints out there that actually do a whole lot. In fact, one plane I was in had lap belts that you would have slid out of instantly if the plane had braked hard, let alone crashed. I've been in others where you can't do your own, you have to rely on the person behind to clip and unclip you. I'm not going to do that either. What If I'm by the door, and person behind me is incapacitated, and I'm blocking everyone else ? Like I said, I'll wear any restraint capable of doing it's job correctly. It's a pity that there are so few of them out there.

I'll wear any belt that restrains me, and not one that is attached loosely to an insecure point in the aircraft, whose sole function is to restrict me in the event of an emergency exit.

What sizes helmets to these mega stars wear? Mine's an XXL. Who knew ?

If you go fast enough and far enough, headings don't matter. I tend to go in the general direction of away most of the time.