h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Orr..Apples in the cheeks...interned in a neutral country...my favourite character was Hungry Joe...no film to get pictures of the whores...etc... Screaming nightmares when he got to run the resupply missions that went away when he had to do bombing runs again.

In the last analysis, Yossarian was too intelligent to want to die and not smart enough to figure out how to avoid it.

If you've already read this, I apologise for bringing it to your attention http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A4156995

Yes, it's brilliant...brutal...ironic. You captured the insanity so well. (Not that I was ever in 'Nam...I turned 18 in '72, my lottery number was 006, but I had a 1H deferment...)

Didn't you also have a piece here on tactical landings?

I once saw a 130 pulling that maneuver at Torrejon, and I thought we would shortly have an emergency on the flightline. Strange to see...

Damn! I forgot Hungry Joe completely!

Aside from Uncle Bruce crashing his glider on D-day, with a jeep in the back-end breaking loose and injuring his back, I never said anything about tactical landings.... Hungry Joe

I saw something here on the 'DaNang maneuver' or something...thought it might have been you.

Nope...but Uncle Bruce was the kind of Uncle (101st) that we should all have..telling outrageous original children's stories on Sunday mornings...I still get some traction with my grandchildren by repeating his epics.

What LTNS mean?

Long Time No See, dude!

Hope you haven't been incapacitated in any way.

Crappy situation in Mississippi and Louisiana, but I won't get into the politics.

LTNS...I've been on a bipolar down cycle....glad to see your increased participation on h2g2...being way down I've been withdrawn and thinking about being less active or even Elvising...I haven't commented on your Stonecutter series because it's so very strange that I hardly know what to say...however I kept reading it in the same way that a train wreck account would keep attention riveted...please take that as a very confused, if depressed, compliment.

I hate when that down cycle hits, man. I was once here under a different name, Elvised, came back anew. It's like a summer/winter thing for me.

I hope it's not the bad news these days.

You know I'd like to help, even though I know it's far too personal a thing.

Hang in there, Bud!

After John Bobbit abused Lorena, her mother advised her to "throw the prick out of the house."

Two five year old boys are sitting in a hospital waiting room. One leans over to the other and says, "What are you in here for?"
The other says, "Circumcision."
The first boy says "Oh, man! I had that done right after I was born. I couldn't walk for a year!"

A man enters the hospital for a circumcision. When he comes to after the procedure, he’s perturbed to see several doctors standing around his bed.
“Son, there’s been a bit of a mix-up,” admits the surgeon. “I’m afraid there was an accident, and we were forced to perform a sex-change operation. You now have a vagina instead of a penis.”
“What!” gasps the patient. “You mean I’ll never experience another erection?”
“Oh, you might,” the surgeon reassures him. “Just not yours.”

This moyel was in the Briss business most of his life, and had accumulated a whole shipload of small slices of skin. He accosted his shoemaker pal Levy, and asked, 'What can be done with these meshuggeneh things anyway? Tell,me, Levy.'

'Rabbi David, I know I can make something fine for you...wouldn't some matching luggage be nice, hah?'

The deal was done, and Rabbi David the moyel waited impatiently for Levy to be finished. Finally the day came, and Levy approached him with a small package. This, the moyel was surprised to see...he was expecting some matching luggage, by damn, with all those farshimmelte pieces of skin, and Levy was giving him...a wallet. 'Levy, what happened, what you do mit all that, heh? Just a wallet?!?'

'Aaah Rabbi, just rub it and it turns into a briefcase!'

How's the treatise on stupidity coming along? Anything to peak at on your page?

No, nothing on stupididdlity...that's pretty much sunk into the murk by now. I have a sci-fi thingie called 'Wrinkle' in the AWW, and a continuation to it called 'Shores of Sunrise' still mooching around in text mode. I have a mind to alternate the two styles in something bigger...Take a look!

Roger. Wilco.