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Thoughts on Sunday

  • Rural Maryland and Delaware are very pretty.  It reminded me of Wisconsin or Minnesota, but with toll roads and insane drivers.
  • Loading a large cargo plane is a lot like Tetris, except that instead of hitting the restart button when you screw up, you have to scramble so that the darn thing doesn’t tilt back on its tail.
  • I’m going to have to get down a better pair of boots if I’m going to load more aircraft, preferably ones with steel toes.
  • For the first time in my life, I saw an Air Force NCO use “knife hands” while correcting the performance of one of his subordinates.  I didn’t know they taught that in the Air Force.
  • Driving in suburban Maryland ought to count toward your sentence in purgatory.
  • Learning how much a 2000 square foot ‘fixer-upper’ is going for in suburban Maryland makes me appreciate how much more I get for a third of the money in Kentucky.
  • Got neither the pat down nor the porn-o-scan at the Baltimore airport.  It was almost refreshing to just go through the metal detector.
  • While boarding our flight home, the flight attendant closed the door and welcomed us to the flight to Raleigh-Durham.  Most of us got the joke.  Unfortunately, some didn’t.

    For when you really want to have a good 4th of July

    Somehow I don’t think we’ll be seeing art like this on the nose of a drone anytime soon.

by daddybear71 on June 4, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on June 4, 2012

https://daddybearsden.com/2012/06/04/thoughts-on-sunday/

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    Mad Jack

     /  June 4, 2012

    Okay, I’m ignorant. Usually I can keep up, but tonight I’m not doing too well. You used two phrases that I’m not familiar with.

    For the first time in my life, I saw an Air Force NCO use “knife hands” while correcting the performance of one of his subordinates. I didn’t know they taught that in the Air Force.

    I think I know what this is, but I’m not certain.

    While boarding our flight home, the flight attendant closed the door and welcomed us to the flight to Raleigh-Durham. Most of us got the joke. Unfortunately, some didn’t.

    I’m one of those that didn’t. What’s up with this?

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      daddybear71

       /  June 4, 2012

      Mad Jack, Knife hands are a gesture used by military leaders to punctuate their words while vociferously explaining their side of an argument:
      http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knife%20hand

      The joke was that we were on a direct flight to Louisville. Southwest likes to make jokes as part of their greeting and such, and this one was pretty good. It got all of us to stop and think for a moment, but a couple of people panicked thinking they were on the wrong airplane.

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