Well they are not brass anyway....:p:

I am going to see if I can find a pic to scan of me the first time I did it at Air Assault School at Ft. Campbell. The wife and kids came out to watch and snapped a few pics.

I thought maybe you might have a bit of personal experience there, Merc...

HA! Can't believe I found it.... This was the first time I ever rappelled out of a aircraft. Fortunately it was the first of many, great fun.

Ft. Campbell, KY, Air Assault School, 1991

Zero Day where they separated the wheat from the chaff, if you couldn't climb a rope or refused to go up the highest obstacles without assistance you were dropped. We lost half at the obstacle course, another half at the first run, and the rest throughout the class. 10 days. Started with about 250, finished with about 75. I am the bald dude on the right ladder in the first pic and at the top of the other ladder on the far right. The last obstacle the rungs of the ladder got further apart the higher you went.

"You climb obstacles like old people fuck!!!"

I've always imagined that James Bond got all the head he wanted. I never imagined he carried it around on his hip though.

My husband did spy rigging in the Marines.

SPIE;)

I don't get why we can see Merc's bawls just because he's rappelling out of a helicopter. Unless he is doing it naked. Is that some initiation bonding (-age) ritual you guys do?

spy rigging-- interesting. looks like the flying (m)anteater of the gods. slllluuuuuuuuuuurP!

"Is it my imagination or..."

That's why they say if your journey is 100 miles, count 90 as the halfway mark.

There was a record store in Portchester, NY called "Vinyl Solution"

Is that a result of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale about The RedHead League?

Who Let the Dog In? Who? Who? Who?

Ginger Convention....

Spencer Tunick is going to have them strip naked in a second ...

Better put on your welding glasses then...

I see me!
No. really. There is a girl there that could be me, if my skin colouring matched my hair. As it is, I have all the disadvantages of being a redhead, without actually having the hair, which I have to pay to achieve.

Anyway, don't mention Holmes and gingers (rhymed with singers, not fingers).
It makes me think of Mark Gatiss.

that give an *entirely new* meaning to the phrase "flash mob"

I can dig a good hot Ginger....

She's thinking of fires that singe, not people who sing. :)

Something odd about the similarity of these 5.

impingers?

You're right! They're all redheads!

Actually, the whole lot looks suspiciously homogenous. Redheads come in greater variety than that. Could be one of those things where they get three or four models, take lots of slightly different photos of each, and photoshop does the rest.

Either that or someone has found a way of printing out my dream from last night.

FTFY;)

I once read a piece on genetics that asserted that a blonde person and a TrueRedhead (TM) had less DNA in common than that same blonde person and a black person.

Gingers with hot fingers ? :p:

Either way, my dixie wrecked.

True fact: Gingers do have souls. They get a freckle for every soul they steal!!

Found in the frozen meat section.

Post recipes if you must, I'll skip over them though.

That's just nathty.

Shark or Dolphin - Yet Again
 

Discuss amongst yourselves. You can never have too many shark vs dolphin arguments.

http://www.grindtv.com/surf/blog/300...+stirs+debate/

Mermaid?

No, no, no no NO!

There is no such thing as "edible beef bile". That is all.


Oh and Hi HLJ! I don't recall having seen you around much lately. Whassup?

I'm going with shark on this one.

Vertical tailfin, plus that notch on the fin says shark to me.

Of course, it could be "surfer."

Dolphin. Yeah, the tail is vertical, but only because the dolphin in playing in the surf and is on its side. Look at the body. It looks short and stubby. That's because the dolphin is kicking it's tail and is bent over at the "waist" while on its side.

dolphin.

Here it is bigger for those among us who can't easily zoom an image:

foreshortening from the telephoto lens plus distortion from the water.

Shark.

:P

I check in every day, but I haven't had much to say.

I just come for the laughs.

Don't look like a dolphin's tail...

whale tail? ;)

Looks kinda like a bluefin tuna tail? Has the 'bump' in the center of the tail...

Nah, couldn't be. Could it?

I go with tuna also.

I'm going with torpedo

I'm still going for the mermaid.

It certainly could be a tuna, but I have never heard of one so close to shore.

For a brief period after WWII it was posisble to catch southern bluefin tuna from rocks off South Australia. They've since been overfished to buggery and you need to find them with planes and chase them in boats now. Certainly possible to have one in a wave.

www.wherearethetuna.com

www.tunawatch.org

www.thereisatunaonthetrolley.com

www.thataintnotunaclearupinheah.org

All the expert sites tell me that tuna cannot be seen near the shore. Therefore, it is a shark.

It's a submarine.

It could be a submarine, but I've never heard of one flipping its tail like that...

My search is over. I have found The Perfect Woman.

Not to worry folks, Officer Asshole is on the job.

Asshole.

Do you know the story behind that asshole?

Sorry, glatt. That either showed up on Stumbleupon, or BendBox. I did a (very) brief Google search and came up with squat. A TinEye search got one result. I could find nothing there either. I've had the pic for a week or two, so it (the story) may be out of rotation by now.

Looking at the copcar in the bg, I'd say this wasn't America, but it could be. Might try some different search terms later.

They were being swarmed by bees angered by BigV and he was spraying the lil girl with repellent.

And stop calling me asshole.

:D