Jolt Country

I guess the wheel on the bus don't go round and round forever.

My kid watches that every single day. Now every time she loads it up on her tablet, I'm going to exclaim "she's dead now, by the way."

Thanks, Coronavirus, now it's certain that I'll have lived my life in the 747's heyday but die having never have flown on one. I always wanted to but never actually made the international trips I hoped. Never experienced those stairs to the bar upstairs, never been stuck in one that landed in the water and Airwolf has to help find us. My only experience of this gigantic plane is from cheesy 80's movies and shows. Of course it will live on for some time, probably in freight, certainly the next generation of Air Force One, and of course not all will be mothballed, some will be sold to shithole carriers that I would never fly on. I would have flown on one moving to Australia or New Zealand in the future but that's done for because the majors are giving up now and it'll be some time before I'm ever on an international flight so that's it, museum time for me if I ever want to be on one.

pinback wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:47 am My kid watches that every single day. Now every time she loads it up on her tablet, I'm going to exclaim "she's dead now, by the way."

BU YAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Casual Observer wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:19 am Thanks, Coronavirus, now it's certain that I'll have lived my life in the 747's heyday but die having never have flown on one.

This news was bittersweet to me: my Grandfather was a mechanic on pre-747 planes before being promoted to a hybrid mechanic / engineer. One of his favorite stories when talking about his time providing feedback on what I think were revisions to the plane, were the annoyance that they tried to disregard his complaints about there not being enough room in the plane for mechanics to comfortable move their hands around. Eventually he went onto work as an advisor and expert on Sky Hooks or mid-air failures of the plane.

Anyway, was interesting to have that reaction to this "end of an era" sort of event.

Especially since I have no feelings whether the fucker is dead or alive or what his version of hell looks like. I know the answer to the latter: with no self awareness of just how fucked up he is and how he hurt his family, it'd likely be something he enjoys.

Well that sucks. I did not get to know one of my grandfathers very well as he died when I was seven but my other grandfather was a really good friend to me despite me learning later he was never much of a dad to my dad. Hanging out with him didn't cease to be a thing I did regularly until I was 20 or 21 when I heard he died from my boss at the newspaper and they sent me home. U.S. marine, golfer, baseball pitcher, drinker, tobacco smoker, and big time gambler. I always looked up to him and we had similar mannerisms. He lived a good 83 years before suddenly feeling bad one morning at the V.F.W. (used to love when he would bring me along to that place) and promptly fell to the floor gone.

Sorry you didn't have a James Bond grandfather, RR. People like that in our lives when we are young can really shape who we become. Had it not been for my grandfather, I probably would not have considered joining the marines (but spent almost 4 years in Ju-Jitsu instead), been a hard worker even when I was really underpaid, and even have any interest at all in baseball (We used to watch it together. Usually the Braves.) or golf.

Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac fame

Reunited.

Damn it now I want Godfather's Pizza

thought he was a!ready dead

Pending executons for August and September:

August
  4 Tenn  Harold Wayne Nichols — REPRIEVED
 12 Ohio  Douglas Coley — REPRIEVED
 26 Federal Lezmond Mitchell
 28 Federal Keith Dwayne Nelson

September
  9 Tex   John Ramirez
 16 Ohio  Kareem Jackson — REPRIEVED
 17 Ohio  John Drummond — REPRIEVED
 22 Federal William LeCroy
 24 Federal Christopher Vialva
 30 Tex   Carlos Trevino

Anyone care to pick who dies first?

TSummary: Dear sir, I'll come by to say hello and tell you how I'm going to kill you.

Yeah, but he's a very complex warden, according to his title.

THE
MANY
FACES OF DEATH
AARDVARK

And if you want to know why the above letter was written, look here.

Can you summarize it for us?

Tdarcos wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:45 am Pending executons for August and September:

August
  4 Tenn  Harold Wayne Nichols — REPRIEVED
 12 Ohio  Douglas Coley — REPRIEVED
 26 Federal Lezmond Mitchell
 28 Federal Keith Dwayne Nelson

Keith Dwayne Nelson has a serial killer name. I don't know what he did, but I've got to vote for the Keithster here.