never live near . . .
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Topic: never live near . . .
Posted By: Guests
Subject: never live near . . .
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 20:29
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today for example, all i've heard all day long is very very loud engine noise - mostly jet-type, coming from several different types of aircraft. sometimes they fly over my house so low i can see the oil and exhaust stains on the underside of the cowling.
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 20:47
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:34
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utah man: Actually, James Lee lives only a few miles from Area 51. Imagine what he gets to see and hear! |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:59
Aliens, UFOs and shallow conspiricies? ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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maani wrote:Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 22:00
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^ Our beloved James Lee IS "Area 51."
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 22:05
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I bet Area 51 has pink floyd and genesis EACH OTHERS best tunes constantly in their classic lineups. Or we could just believe in all the flying saucer crap!   ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: hope
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 22:16
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not just air force, but also marine corps air stations are no fun either, for the same reasons you describe, plus the fact that the intelligence quotient of the average marine is far under that of the average cadet ------------- the wisest man is deemed insane |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 23:53
I thought Prog Archive was Area 51? The only place I know where you will see Tony R. performing alien autopsies. ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 03:57
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There are things much worse than engines: for 10 years I lived by a military base. Young privates learning to play the bugle were sent away, to a corner of the base, to practise... JUST BELOW MY WINDOW!!!
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:24
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I spent four years in the Air Force. I used to have to work security around the alert aircraft and hide behind a "blast shield" when they fired those puppies up. Talk about Earshplittinlowedenbomber. Holy f**k, I think my hearing is still screwed up from that portion of my life. I live five miles from an old AFB. It closed about 12 years ago, but i remember the constant noise. A few years ago, the backyard of my old house faced an elementary school playground. I worked night shift, and those little bastards SCREAMED continuously while on recess. The don't put 'em all out at once to get the noise over with, noooo, they rotate groups of 500 every hour and half. A whole new group of little bastards would come screaming each time I finally pulled myself into dreamland. I spent a year on that shift and I was one grumpy prick. I bet half of those little screaming bastards are criminals now. Serves 'em right.
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:29
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Dr. James Lee prepares for the autopsy by rehearsing a Riverdance jig to loosen his ankle joints.
Tony R gets caught snacking on the hambone of an alien crash victim. Tony is reported to have said, "Tastes just like chicken." |
Posted By: Unifaun
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 20:28
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one of those aliens must be frenchie, or some relative anyway! ------------- 
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 06:23
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I live opposite and behind a Field. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 08:06
Joren , you know where I can get one of those?
I can think of a couple useful things to do with one of those! For the sake of the meek so they can inherit the Earth (in not too bad a shape)
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 08:07
Careful not aiming at the pilot ! It could be our friend Ian Gledhill/VibrationBaby.
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 08:11
Yes, that's right! I totally forgot about that! Maybe Utah_Man should use 'Mariah-missiles', Vibrationbaby is immune for those. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 08:12
I'm sorry, I don't have one either. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 08:20
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Regarding Mariah missiles , I'd love to spend a night with her in bed ! She must be a real sexual bomb!
That was a bit easy , but you presented me the occasion for that one. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 10:13
ok... but what if this thingy misses. then those fighter jets will fire back at me  both me and my entire collection of carefully selected and extremely rare music will be toast. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:04
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Utah_man wrote ok... but what if this thingy misses. With searching head missiles , this should not be a problem , slight over-cost but if you can afford the stuff. Just to be sure , do it from your neighbor's lawn. He probably listen to crappy disco , anyway ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 18:39
| I live a few blocks away from train tracks, so I occasionally get woken up in the middle of the night by their horns. My school is less than a block away from those same tracks, and there's a daily train that goes by every day during our band class, and since us trombones always insist that the door leading out behind the school be kept open at all times (especially during the winter), we end up not being able to hear any other instruments for a few minutes every day. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 00:27
how lame is that? I live for three years already a mile away from Los Angeles International Airport, where every minute(literally) an airplane flies by my window. You just get used to it and start ignoring them after a while. One night I counted six planes in the sky at the same time. The airport is so busy they sometimes have to wait in line to land. And I have an air force base five miles away, and its been fairly quiet(or maybe I just never heard it behind all this LAX noise Here's LAX
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 19:05
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Hey Hope, I'm a retired Marine, care to trade wits with me?
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 19:10
You'll have a job Gleam,he's been blocked! Intelligence not what it used to be Sailor Boy??? |
Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 22:54
Thanks for the update Tony, I only drop in once in awhile to see what's going on, therefore I wasn't up to speed on the latest gossip. Unlike you I have a company to run and can't spend every waking hour online. So tell me, how's life in middle management mediocrity?
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 01:43
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Ok.. I grew up about 15 miles from Cherry Point - a somewhat large Marine Air Corp base in NC. I was very use to low flying jets.. and that forever lasting boom sound. When the 'Blue Angels' were in town.. lots of fun.. if you were at the air show, if not, it was good to have central air conditioning and the windows closed. However, living in NYC for 28 years... I had not heard the sound of fighter jets until the night of 9/11. That night, there was a few bomb threats to Penn Sta. and the Empire State Bldg.. all of which are a few blocks from my apt. and at about midnight a fighter jet flew so low over Manhattan that my entire building shook... the first thing that went thru my head was that they were trying to take out the Empire State Bldg. It scared the crap out of me. I've only heard a few fighter jets fly over since.. one was yesterday. It was so loud that all the pigeons on the buildings took flight at once while the buildings shook. It was like an episode from the movie "The Birds".. Again... it sort of scared the crap out of me. ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 04:49
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Touche Gleam - your "smart" missile hit the target. 100% destruction and no collateral damage!