The one grammatical mistake I hear so often, and it just nauseates me, is "I don't think that....". I automatically know that they are not thinking at that point, at least not in the grammatical sense. Now, I am only a high school grad, with two year ged college, courtesy U.S.A.F., and even I know better than tell someone that I don't think.

Jerry, I wish I had this video when I was teach basic electronics at Keesler AFB, Biloxi (before Katrina) Miss, in 1959. It would have been an amazing help.

Probably because of that last great photo!

Bet that wasn't the ONLY thing that flew!

I served 4 years in Berlin Germany, Tempelhof Flughafen (Airport), U.S.A.F., 1955-1959. One of the best German jokes I heard as I was struggling to learn German was the one about the newlyweds, who drove from their church to their hotel in a Messerschmitt. When they get to hotel, he tells her, "You run check in and go upstairs and get ready while I park the car." She does all that, he drives around back of the hotel to the parking area, and sits there. Pretty soon, she looks out the window over the parking lot, and hollers at him "Hurry up, before I get out of the mood." He answers back "I have to get out of the mood before I can get out of the car!"

Remember the old 5.25 inch floppies? I found out the hard way that one DOES NOT lean that sucker up against a phone. When the phone rang, it scrambled the data worse than my morning scrambled ham & and diced eggs.

[quote=jerryc41]This is a one-off special edition.

Better seats too. I rode around Germany in 1956, in a WWII jeep. When I think about it I still hurt, and I was on vacation from Berlin, visiting a buddy in Darmstadt. He had a surplus that he bought, and restored. Boy, did he restore it. Absolutely back to original spec, down to including the Model A Ford type 4-lunger with Babbitt bearings. How do I know this? Here is a shot mom made of my kid brother sitting on the front fender of my Model A Roadster. We had three engines, and a nail barrel full of Babbitt. See a piece of Babbitt in a garage, pick it up, take it home. Yes, I know, that is a Model B radiator cover. It also had a hand made aluminum top, as the original canvas had long since rotted away. I loved that car, drove it all my high school years, then my brother Jim got it in his high school years, Then my brother Gene got it. Sis never got it, and was she mad about that. Ha.

[quote=jerryc41]Here's an interesting article about something that is all around us - static electricity]
O.K. guys, I was a technical documentation consultant at a local electronics company here in Silicon Gulch, working on classified Airborne ECM equipment. As a lark, a couple of us devised some cautions to put in the manual for Validation. For those not in the industry, Validation is when the military comes in and goes over the manual with a fine tooth comb to see if it works. This is one of several Cautions I put in.

CAUTION
The CCAS in this unit contain electrostatic discharge sensitive devices (ESDS). Refer to Table 1-3. Special handling methods and materials must be used to prevent popping the little suckers. For additional information, refer to DOD Std 1686 and DOD HDBK 263.

Here is another:
WARNING
To prevent electrical shock, all electrical power shall be removed from the system before performing maintenance or repair. Discharge all high voltage coils, transformers, transmission lines and/or capacitors and ground system until work is completed unless you like being embedded in the ceiling as a crispy critter.

The boss was reading along with the Colonel who was in charge of the military side of the validation. He called me aside, and was having kittens about the little inserts we had put in. Told him to relax we had corrected pages to insert in the place of the joke pages.

Pretty soon the Colonel roared with laughter, and asked "Who is responsible for this Caution?" I admitted guilt, and as i was starting to hand him the corrected page to insert in the draft, he said "Are there any more like this?" I admitted there were, and he said "LEAVE 'EM IN. The troops will read every note, caution, and warning, trying to find the funny ones. Not only that, they will remember them, AND DO IT! Totally brilliant!"

My boss never said a word until the validation was over, and we were cleaning up, went to get my check, and there was a $1,000 bonus in it.

Humor sometimes pays off

Not quite strong enough, in this case eh? Going to be some very pointed questions asked. Just as an aside, since I was Air Force, wonder how many of those cables actually part under the strain, and we, the general public, never hear about it.

And there are many of us who were in 'Nam who will swear to that, and also swear to the second logo - those pilots were either the bravest souls on planet Earth, or the craziest - or maybe, by God, a touch of both. Many would not be here today were it not for those wonderful crazy brave heroes.

Las Vegas?

How the hell did I ever live to be 80? I drank from the hose, we passed soda bottles back and forth, never wiping the top, I ate raw cake dough, cookie dough, easy over eggs. I even ran with scissors, when my sister got hurt, and mom needed to cut the bandage.
Now I ask you how in the world did I survive? I even survived Viet Nam.

Jerry, didn't you know? ALL computers come with a crisis detector. You have a crisis, it crashes. Courtesy Bill Gates.

Actually, he is sitting on Planet Earth. Don't know where the statue is located, nor who he is.

I'm male...... understand this perfectly. :)