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Sounds like a challenge to me. Zing Lurks

Do they still sell fifths? I thought they went to straight quarts and then switched to metric measures for booze. It's been a long time since I bought a bottle. Zing Lurks

And an infamous, but now dead, resident of the Elsinore Ghetto rechristened Jenkins "The Codflicker" before the body even reached the undertaker's slab. Zing Lurks

I know ... I know ... I know ... but I ain't saying nothin this time. Zing Lurks

Nonsense ... we got Twardo, and we don't need you at all. Zing Lurks

Nah ... too wimpy. How about a few rounds of Ram-air jousting with nerf lances over the swoop pond. Zing Lurks

Just tell them because you're crazy and have a death wish. They've already decided that anyway, and you'll just be wasting your breath trying to give them any other explanation. Zing Lurks

Wolf spiders are big and scary looking, but they are harmless to humans and they eat lots of other pest bugs. I usually catch them in a cup and put them back outside. Its getting colder at night now and they start looking for warm places to over-winter. Also, its their breeding season right now and a lot of them you see are males on a mission ... they've only got one thing on their minds, and biting you ain't it. Zing Lurks

I heard he floated over here behind the Mayflower. Zing Lurks

I was thinkimg more like the Heron because of the dihedral of the tailplane, but the plane Howard posted doesn't appear to be big enough in comparison. Also, look at the left wing ... isn't that an engine nacelle sticking off the front? And it looks to me to be a tail-dragger design, too, which neither the Dove or the Heron was. Still, it has very DeHavilland features, but I'm wondering if it isn't a knock-off copy DeHavilland features with that engine on the nose added. It almost looks like a DHC Mosquito with a third engine added and smaller engines on the wing. Two airplanes I've lusted to fly are the Mosquito and the P-38 Lightning. I got a ride in a P-38 once, but no stick time ... yet. Zing Lurks

Built by DeHavilland. Zing Lurks

I used the tin coffee can method to crossport my Strato-Star. You heated the opened end of the can on a stove, slid a magazine into the cell on the bottom side of the cell wall you intended to crossport, then set the hot can onto the nylon and it cut/melted a perfect circle. Low-tech, but effective. Zing Lurks

The topic reminds me of the old bull's sage demeanor. An old bull and a young bull are standing in the meadow watching as the rancher unloads a group of prime jerseys. The young bull says, "I think I should run over there and fuck one of them." The old bull replies, "I'm thinking about moseying over there and fucking them all." There are always options. Zing Lurks

And, the adjustable metric wrench for those early imports. Zing Lurks

Wooden thread spools ... and all the great little toys dads and grandfathers gave to us kids. Somewhere in a box of junk, I've got an army tank my dad made when I was about 4 years old. You wind up the string and the tank rolls forward and the pencil used as the gun barrel is notched to shoot rubber bands. And yo-yos. Zing Lurks

I made a night jump at Ghoulidge on one of the first batch of Strato-Hammers, I mean Strato-Flyers, that arrived in Arizona for the Canadian team ... that count? Zing Lurks

Goddammit Twardo, now another 50,000 more Californians will be moving to Arizona ... and its your fault! Zing Lurks

Wait until you find out how many experienced divers won't get into that front tandem harness ... because it IS scary! Zing Lurks

I have a couple of those decals stashed in my pile of jump junk. Wog and I found them in a small box in the rafters of the old hangar while we were paddling around in there in a canoe following one of the floods in the late 70s. Larry Perkins said they were likely left over from the early 60s. Zing Lurks

I did my five static lines on one of Clayton Schoppel's red-white-blue ParaCommanders from the first batch of PCs given to the US Team. By 1972, it belonged to my brother, who got it from Clayton Troutner at the MSUSPC DZ at Charlotte, Mich. I jumped a 5-TU rag for two DRCPs because that was Troutner's only rig with a KAP-3 auto-opener on it. Then I went right back to ParaCommanders. I think I had about 1200 jumps before I ever jumped a T-10. I made a couple jumps for kicks and grins on a T-10 and a 32' parabolic canopy the Valley Skydivers Club owned. I doubt that I've got more than 100 jumps on rags, not counting 20-some reserve rides on 28', 24', and 26' military surplus rounds, plus about 25 more on Piglet reserves, Strong Lopos and a K-XX. I had a 23' Piglet main for awhile, and used one of Gary Douris' 24' reserves for a main too. The only reserve I ever owned that I never used was the square spare I sold a month or so ago. I guess I finally learned to pack by the time I got a square reserve. Zing Lurks

I've still got one of the cloissone pins from Grampa's Jumpfest. It's a bearded old fart jumper under a rainbow square drinking a 7-Up. I don't recall what year it was, but I was flying one of two DC-3s that came for the event, along with a Twin Beech and a Helio-Stallion. I even got a ride in a P-51. Must have been 1988 or 1989. Zing Lurks

Look up the definition of "legally blind." I think you'll find that it is not always applied to people who cannot see at all. My mom was legally blind for the last 8 years of her life, but she would have been more than able to see and hit an intruder into her home too. Zing Lurks

Pffffffffft ... reinventing the wheel is such a mundane activity, and so is redoing "stunts" that have been done repeatedly in the past. Zing Lurks

I thought the Herd claimed a 2.6 second 10-way off a Skyvan around 1980-81 or so. Personally, I always thought pure 10-way speed stars should be done as no-show, no-grip, single file exits from a point a couple feet back from the door. Zing Lurks

Damn Jo, I'm sure this news hits pretty hard after your investment of time and effort. Its another part of the answer you sought, though, and I hope there is some consolation in that for you. Zing Lurks